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What To Do When Your Job Search Isn’t Working

Guest post by: Elizabeth Freedman

Article Overview: A few tips to help revive your job search

What To Do When Your Job Search Isn’t Working

If you've been trying to land a job, and nothing seems like it's working, consider a few tips below: • You need a new bag of tricks. If you're out there in the job market now - or are afraid you might be - then you can't rely on the old tricks that you've used in the past to get your foot in the door. Once upon a time, submitting a great resume may have yielded a few phone calls or actually landed you an interview or two. Now, it's a different game out there and you need a few new tricks up your sleeve to get noticed - or even to get a response to your emails.

• Whatever you've been doing, do more. Whatever you've been doing to land a job - whether it's sending out your resume to appropriate job openings, networking up a storm - multiply your efforts by ten, even if you think you can't possibly do more than you are already doing. (We all think this, by the way.) Here's reality: You can, and you need to if you want to make headway.

• Keep your focus laser sharp. Yes, more effort is required to land a job, but keep your efforts on target. Don't let desperation lead you to start applying to anything with a heartbeat - resolve to only focus on landing jobs that you genuinely want. Sending out your resume to tons of jobs in an attempt to "cast a wide net" usually backfires because you're simply not going to be competitive for those positions that deviate too far from your core areas of expertise.

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