Yes I admit I was in that well of despair this past week. It's a place all of us go when weeks and months go by and you received only minimal responses to your queries even though you've done everything the experts have told you to do. Remember what I said last week about going about the job search all wrong? I know now what I've been doing that has deterred me from reaching my goal of gaining stable employment. First thing is you need to forget what the experts tell you. Most haven't got a clue about the current job market situation. That is because they're not in it. You are. They may tell you that they understand. They don't. Once I got past this, I was able to see a little clearer.
Right now is a good time to reflect on what works for you. Is it networking? Everyone seems to tout this as the answer. No one seems to get the fact that it is extremely difficult to do when you haven't got a "hook" to put in front of the person. They all tell you to work on an elevator speech, yet don't give you any ideas of how to put one together in a way that would make someone actually listen to you. I know the standard elevator speeches....It just seems to me that you're ambushing someone by doing this. So, no it won't work for me. What has worked....no jobs yet....is actually asking questions and thereby gaining information.
I do find that there are some opportunities out there for me. I am taking the first tentative steps on my way to stable employment and out of the "well" of unemployment. It might be that I will be self employed which would be very interesting to say the least.
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