As someone who has been laid off twice within a 12 month period, I have learned several methods to keep my sanity after the job loss. The first time I was let go I slept in, let my facial hair grow, and was in my bathrobe more days than I care to remember. This leads to depressive states, please do not do this! Get back to you old High School routine. Get your butt up as early as you can. Taking care of yourself will lead to a higher self image. You need to personify this higher image during an interview to get hired. Plan a schedule, stick to it, and make adjustments when you need to. The best part of being without a job is being your own boss. You call all the shots, but rest assured nothing good will ever happen while your lying on the couch with potato chips stuck in that Charles Manson beard you have let yourself grow.
Do some regular form of exercise every day. Take it from experience, you will have 24/7 access to your fridge and pantry, and you will put on some weight. If you don't plan for the gain, you will have to buy new clothes to interview in which you will not be able to afford. A real life Catch 22! It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you do something: running in place, lifting weights, or calisthenics like jumping jacks. Get that heart of yours pumping with blood early in the morning each and every day. Exercise is going to get your digestive tract operating on schedule, which will help with your fridge and pantry issues. Exercise becomes a necessary win/win solution to a problem you may be unaware of. The unemployed have no excuse not to exercise, as they have plenty of free time, and no monetary expense is incurred while participating.
Planning to get a job starts with seizing an opportunity. To do this you must update your resume to include your last job experience. Rehearse your speech about why you are not currently working. Employers look to exclude applicants first because they have an unmanageable number of people knocking on their doors. Business sweep under the rug the ones that do not fit the criteria for the posting, and when they pick the eventual winner the job search is over for them. Every other applicant are still searching for a job. Send out that updated resume to as many as possible. It is not possible to overexpose you resume. Computer trashcans on desktops will not overflow, although many will be deleted. Do not send your resume more than once to a prospective employer, unless it has been over 6 months. This can make you look desperate and maybe a little too persistent.
There are plenty of fish in the sea, so make it your goal to send a resume to every job opening in your field. Join two job boards, such as CareerBuilder, and Monster. Do the same with your major local newspaper, as have more local job boards you must be in the know. In two short weeks you will be an expert just like me in deciphering the bogus responses. Make sure you post your resume on these sites for anyone to see, and allowing matched jobs to be sent via email each day. It is important you hear from as many as you can, your opportunities need to be as large as possible, creating a realistic chance of acquiring a new job. Ensure you let all ex co-workers, friends, and family know you are looking for work. Many jobs are filled with people who know someone, or someone who knows someone. This can be humiliating at first, but trust me, your people will be sincere in their help with your job quest.
When bona fide leads come your way, the first thing they will inquire about is what happened at your last job. You will get this question, accept it, and make the time to plan for it now. This is the first chance you will have to sell yourself to any prospective employer. Plan the time now to make sure that you have your act together with a great answer ready to go! This process is known as overcoming objections in sales lingo. The goal of the job finding process is to accept a position with a company. To get to an offer you must overcome objections from a prospective employer. Sometimes you might start with a phone interview, then go to the firm for a panel type interview, and perhaps you will have one more final interview before an offer.
Companies have different styles for the process even though their goal is the same as yours. They want to pick the right applicant and hire one time for the firm. Keep in mind their goal is also to exclude everyone to get the best candidate available. My advice for the interviewee to be as adaptable and honest as possible. One must be able to apply your work experiences to the question asked, and be flexible to the prospective employer. I cannot stress this enough, most of this process is to test the applicant, and appearing flexible is what most firms are looking for, just as they hope you will be on the first day of your new job!
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