Why Your Job Search Is Failing | No BS Job Search Advice
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
There are almost as many reasons a job search fails as people who play professional sports worldwide. Here are several:
• Focusing on the big picture but not the little picture.
• Focusing on the little picture, but never on the big picture.
• Focusing only on presenting your competence, but not delivering soft skills.
• Especially with senior professionals, thinking they know how job-hunting works.
• You don’t take the time to rehearse the answers to predictable interview questions based upon your background and the position you are interviewing for.
• Thinking you know how to interview because you’ve hired people before.
• Not asking for advice/support. You show that by continuing to hit your head against the wall, expecting to get a better outcome.
• Thinking you know how to negotiate for yourself because you crushed some small vendor in a negotiation 5 years ago.
• Knowing enough to be dangerous to yourself but not enough to be knowledgeable.
• Not taking the time to identify what’s important to you in the next job or organization, or how to identify it when they see it.
• Never identifying the institutional friction that will make it hard to succeed BEFORE you join.
• HERE’S MY FAVORITE: Thinking everything you’ve been told on the interviews is true.
Everything works in job search but never as often as we like. However, these things people do rarely work and will leave you behind the 8-ball with no trick shot to rely upon to help you
get hired. Given the myriad ways you can fail, it is smart to identify your weaknesses and then look for solutions at TheBigGameHunter.us /blog/. (the blog has more than 12,000 searchable
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Skip asking amateurs like your former boss, your wife/husband or partner, or people you know who are well-meaning but don’t know enough to be helpful except by accident.
Yes, I know that is a strong statement but if they were that knowledgeable, their job searches would go better than they do!
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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a coach who worked as a recruiter for what seems like one hundred years. His work involves career coaching, as well as executive job search coaching, job coaching, and interview coaching. He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with over 2400 episodes.
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