Never Search Alone: The Job Seeker’s Playbook

by Phyl Terry

no matter who are you, no matter how qualified you are, you will feel anxious and insecure in the job search.

without a clear understanding of what they want or what the market wants. This is why the conventional approach — sometimes referred to as “spray and pray” — is so popular: people want to relieve their anxieties. There’s a better way.

Because your emotional balance is the most important thing you need to manage in the job search, you need a support group of fellow job seekers who will help turn your insecurity and anxiety into hope, motivation, accountability, and confidence.

this two-sided creative destruction means that capitalism leads inevitability to instability, obsolescence, and layoffs.

Instability is a feature, not a bug, of our economic system.

And job seekers can see the biases and blind spots that impair each other’s job search

Rejections even for jobs you don’t want undermine your confidence and can thus negatively affect your whole search.

shows that half the time we need help we do not realize it.

This exercise will also show you that you have always had a community of support, and recognizing that will improve your confidence, which is always in short supply during job searches.