2/3 of job seekers spend a mere 5 hrs or less per week on their job search. In the Job Search Boot Camp, Jay & I discuss the importance of time management during the job hunt. But we don’t even come close to suggesting that you spend 40 hours a week looking for work.
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“So what have you been doing during these past 7 months since you last worked?” (A good answer, by the way, usually involves the truth)
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This past week, a client who’s been downsized due to the economic conditions of the recent recession asked me about whether she should go back into her field and take a job offer from an old boss (who’s moved to a new company). Problem is she’s trying to move into a new field, preferably government. However, she’s a single mom and feels she can’t afford to say no.
What do you think? Should she take the job and just not divulge her plans with this person?
Personally, I would love to see her be able to honestly say to her old boss that she’s trying to make a career change into the government sector. I would love it if the boss said yes – that she could work there until the probably long & drawn out government hiring process concludes.
I don’t know, maybe she could do this. Maybe she could work out a short-term employment arrangement. Maybe she could do the job for 60 days and then reassess whether the job needs to be made into a long-term situation. Maybe the manager’s familiarity with her work ethic and skills is motivation enough to hire her as long as possible… even if means losing her in a couple of months.
But… that’s a heck of a lot of maybes. What would you do?
When I work with clients who have just lost their job, I always recommend they take a week off to decompress. It might even be a good idea to get out of town. Don’t look for a job. Don’t update your resume. It will be impossible to forget about the job situation, but stepping away from job search will help.