Tackling a job search
Starting a job search can be daunting...it is now very different in the third decade of the 21st century.
If you are, like most people, already partway through your working life, you will have spent much more time doing a job than looking for a career. Initially, reviewing your career, developing career options, searching for opportunities, and attending interviews can be daunting.
To succeed in your job search you should tackle it the same way as any other task. That means you should start by defining your problem based on research and analysis.
Then, you can identify possible courses of action and decide which to take. Once you have embarked on a particular strategy you will need to assess and review regularly how effective it has been and change direction if things are not turning out as planned.
You must understand the difficulty of the task you are embarking on and realise that it will require a great deal of hard work, dedication and tenacity.
You must accept the fact that finding a new position is a full-time job in itself. Jobs are to be found, and success will be yours if you set about this in a business-like way and if you work at it methodically and diligently as you worked in your past job. When you accept that your job search will be very demanding, you will start off on the right foot.
It may be demanding, but you can have a lot of fun along the way. You will meet new people, see new places of work and create your future.
ACMA creates successful career paths through detailed individual assessment, research and job market analysis, combined with expert personalised coaching.
Note: A Career Development Association of Australia research paper found that when professional career guidance occurred that the participant was 2.67 times more likely to secure a job.
All program services can be delivered via our interactive online cloud-based career management "Career Talk" system and/or "one-on-one" in our Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, Cairns or Auckland offices.
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