What do you find most challenging about job hunting? #jobseekerspoll

ekuacant·May 24, 2021

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Good Morning Elpha Ladies,I hope you had a great weekend. I'm a Career Coach and I'd like to understand more about what is most painful about job hunting, so that I can provide relevant resources and programmes to support job hunters and career changers.I'd love your help if you could comment and respond to my informal poll. Here's the question:What do you find most challenging about job hunting?Updating your CV/Resume and LinkedIn profileInterview PreparationRejectionNot getting any interviewsNot getting any response to your applicationsMotivation and confidence during job huntingI'd love to hear if there are other issues that I've not mentioned that you find challenging. Please just respond by adding a comment with your thoughts or by copying and pasting one from my list. Or feel free to DM me with any comments on this topic. Thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate it.To your career success!Warm Regards,Ekua 💛

RebeccaStevenson·May 24, 2021

The most exhausting things when I was looking last year and the year before were 1) having the exact same conversation with two or three recruiters a week and 2) the fact that every place I applied to required me to create an account (with a password!) on their web site and copy all of the information from my resume into their particular form fields *in addition* to uploading the thing as a PDF or whatever.

ekuacant·May 25, 2021

Thank you for sharing your experience of job hunting @RebeccaStevenson. Working with recruiters can be beneficial, but also frustrating if they are not on the ball, some are better than others. I agree sometimes employers don't always make it easy to apply with less than optimal systems!!

HeleenVS·May 24, 2021

Hi @ekuacant , thanks for the great question! To me the most painful part of job hunting has the lack of response. I've sent out my resume 90 times in the last couple of months, no interviews. I've reached out to people personally on LinkedIn... No response. The worst is probably when I've reached out and we've had good conversations and they promise to get back to me or do x or y and then... Ghosted. It eats at my confidence!

ekuacant·May 25, 2021

Thank you @heleenvs for sharing your experience of job hunting. I really empathise with that not having a response is really frustrating, when you are taking the time and effort to put in high quality applications. It's also demoralising to have good conversations which have lead to no follow up. I would say keep at it and perhaps get someone in the industry that you're applying in to give you feedback on your Resume. It may be that a little tweak could help. In regards to conversations with people re opportunities, even if they say they'll get back to you, I'd also just send a follow up reminder message.