3 job search strategies for when the market feels impossible, from a career coach: ‘Strong relationships are more important than ever'As a career coach who pays close attention to the challenges my job-seeking and career-transitioning clients are facing, I know the job market seems impenetrable to lots of peopleThere's no benefit to sugarcoating it: Job searches are going to take longer in this labor environment. It's natural to feel disillusioned or even desperate.
Sprinting is usually paired with a"spray and pray" strategy, where you send out the same application to every job that seems like it has potential. But applying to roles that don't excite you is tedious, demoralizing, and draining. Job seeking is draining, and searches are inevitably going to take longer right now. Be kind to yourself. Err on the side of doing less and scaling up. Energy spent can't be recovered. ACreating first-rate materials is time- and energy-intensive, even if the potential prize is a job you're over the moon for.