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Prepare For Success
Preparing Your Job Hunting Environment
Your job-hunt is a job in itself. We’ve talked about the checklists and tools that are in the I Got
Hired TM Toolkit to help prepare you to take on this job but creating the right environment is just
as important.
‘The right environment’ is a very personal thing but its purpose is very simple. ‘The right
environment’ is the ‘best environment possible to ensure that you make the most of your jobhunt’.
It is where you are most comfortable, most organized and most productive.
Plan And Prepare Your Working Week – It’s All About Time Management Now
To begin with, define your ‘job-hunt week.’
Whether your job-hunt is your ‘full time
job’ at the moment, or if you are currently
working and fitting your job hunt in around
the rest of your work life, set yourself some
parameters and targets.
Set times of the day and days of the week
when you intend to focus on your job-hunt.
Whether it’s a couple of hours two evenings a
week plus a couple of lunch hours, or maybe
two three-hour sessions three days a week,
set your targets for the number of hours
every week that you are going to commit to
your job-hunt. Once you have set them, put
them into IGH Pro, or your other diary, and
STICK TO THEM!
It’s also important that people around you
also know your working hours, your job-hunt
hours, and that they don’t expect you to be
around for a chat, go to the bar, watch the
television or play any part in the 1,001 things
that can get in the way of your professional
search for a new job. You are better than that.
Once you have set your working hours, it’s
time to plan your week.
At the start of your job-hunting working week,
review your diary and remind yourself of any
appointments, engagements, interviews,
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