What Color Is Your Parachute 2018 by Richard N. Bolles copy

CHAPTER 6
What to Do When Your Job-
Hunt Just Isn’t Working
Well, that happens.
And after the “I can’t believe this is happening to me,” after a minor or
great depression, and despair, when we’ve finally gathered our strength
again, and are ready to try again, launching a new assault on the jobmarket,
what then?
Surely, not just more of the same. Not just visiting job-sites five times a
day instead of once a day. Not just sending out 500 resumes instead of
200. No, you’ve got to make some new rules for yourself.
Here are the three most important rules, discovered by discouraged jobhunters
who were, in the end, successful:
1. Never give up.
2. Never give up.
3. Never give up.
If you feel like you’re up against huge forces that are beyond your
control, then figure out what portion is within your control, however small,
and work on that.
Try a different approach. Be willing to work harder at this, than you
have up to now. But don’t just work harder. Work smarter. Try a different
strategy than you’ve been pursuing up to now.
Come on! You are unique. No one else has your fingerprints, your eye
scan, your soul, or your good heart. Believe in yourself. You were born for
a reason. Find it!
Use your brains. Do some hard thinking. You can solve this.