Saturday, 11 January 2014

Travails of Rejection in Job hunting

Job hunting leaves a trail of rejections over time, but we seldom go beyond defining the process beyond, win or lose.

Instead of asking if we are on the right track, we are too busy with the search.

Job hunting needs to be viewed in a perspective of totality. It is definitely about beating a track through the jungle, but where survival is more than having a machine gun as a survival kit.

For starters, the research is more important than the search. Most of us can quote a vacancy with admirable accuracy, but there is very little knowledge about the company’s definition about suitability. We worry more about the polish of the resume, the dress, shoes, the style, the confidence, but much less about listening to the rhythms of a company’s being.

Winning or losing is unimportant, but not developing a sixth sense to comprehend a company’s individuality or emotionality is like inviting murder to interview rationale.

We worry so much about the competition but beyond the superficial or the statistics we do little to understand it. But it is worth considering the fact that it is not always the best guy, the more experienced or the slickest interview savvy dude, who gets the job. The heaven favored, come in various bottles and packages.

How many of us bother to find out about who won what you lost?

The definition of successful survivors in the job market jungle is definitely not about those who never get bitten .But about those who, irrespective of either winning or losing or being wounded give equal importance to knowing both facts – Why Me? and Why not Me?

Copyright © 2014, Lima Sehgal
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