![]() Focus on quantity, not quality, and use all of the job-hunting channels at your disposal (online ads, recruiters, networking, direct company inquiries, LinkedIn) to crank up your output. If you’re only sending out a handful of applications each week, hoping for success, it’s time to accelerate your efforts. Once you embrace that you will likely have to blaze your way through 50 or 100 “nos” to get a single “yes,” you’ll realize that speed counts. And, as any successful sales person can tell you, the key to building a solid sales pipeline is volume. When you’re job hunting, like it or not, you’re in sales for yourself. ![]() Here are a few tips that will help you avoid “analysis paralysis” as you throttle up your search efforts. Recognize that we all face mental roadblocks, rationalizations and avoidance mechanisms when, in reality, it’s time for aggressive action and output. To combat these tendencies and improve your odds of success, I’d suggest you commit to a mantra of “when in doubt, do.” Don’t overthink things. ![]() And the reality is that most people have almost zero formal training in looking for work, so they question themselves at every turn and wonder if they’re doing things the right way. Outside of a few lucky souls sporting highly marketable credentials, I’m here to assure you that any trepidation you’re feeling about the job hunting challenge today is absolutely, wonderfully normal.
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