One challenge for job seekers is that we are often so focused on the goal we don't realize when the goal has moved. With all the stress of finances, social stigma, and just our own self esteem we often just keep pounding away at the same goal - GET A JOB!
This can create two problems. First is we get so obsessed with getting ANY job that we take the first thing that comes along without regard to the long term consequences. A lot of companies are concerned about this which is why they are stretching out the hiring process for candidates that are not a perfect fit to make sure they are going to be satisfied. Taking just any job can have a long term impact on your career which also has to be taken into consideration. Just because you are unemployed doesn't mean your next job can't add to your career path. The trick is to make sure you aren't too locked into a specific job. This leads into the second problem.
While I will be the first person to advocate patience in the job search, when we get focused on one or two requirements in a job we can limit the opportunities available to us. A friend of mine recently took a job with a major retailer in Arkansas. While he was initially skeptical, as he stepped back and looked at the possibilities for him self and his family, the opportunity he wouldn't have considered four months ago has great potential to increase his quality of life in ways he hadn't thought of before.
Today's No Job Joy is keeping our selves open to the possibilities that what we are looking for is not always what we thing it is.
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