Organizing Your Job Search

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Host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli knows that searching for a new job can get messy, and that’s why she is here to tell you how you can organize your job search for maximum efficiency!


Episode Highlights: 

  • There’s no better place than to start with the why, as in, why do you need to be organized

  • Helps you to know what you want to accomplish from the time you wake up to the time you go to bed

  • Distractions at home can pile up all around you, especially when you are sitting at home all day

  • Organizing your job search provides balance to your day, like making sure to schedule time for things you enjoy

  • Set yourself up for a happy and positive job search

  • There are many ways that you can get organized, depending on who you are

  • Create a dedicated space in your home that you know is solely for your work and job search

  • Set daily, weekly, and longer-term goals for yourself that you can keep referring back to

  • It’s easy to lose momentum, especially during a long job search, but there are ways to avoid that

  • If your routine is working for you, do not change it or you risk throwing your whole search off

  • Putting on real clothes can help get you in the mindset of focusing on the task at hand

  • Discuss your job search and your schedule with the other people in your house

  • Networking, building new connections, applying to online job postings, and working with search firms are the 4 channels of job searching

  • Make sure that you are allocating your job-search time in the most effective and efficient way possible

  • At least 70% of your job-search time should be spent reaching out to your network

  • Allocate 20% of your time to planning, research, and professional development

  • Only 10% of your time should be spent applying to jobs online

  • Physically write out a list of companies and organizations that you could envision yourself working at

3 Key Points:

  1. It’s incredibly important to make time for the things you enjoy. You will begin to lose your “why” if you are constantly focusing on the job search.

  2. Keep your momentum going by staying consistent with a schedule that works, discussing that schedule with the people you live with, and even dressing in work clothes.

  3. More than 80% of jobs are acquired through the candidate’s network, thus emphasizing the importance of utilizing current relationships.

Tweetable Quote

“Research shows that organized people are happy people.” - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli

“Setting goals and referring back to them often is one of the best ways to actually get down to the tactics of staying organized.” - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli

“In actuality, less than 20% of jobs are acquired through...these job posts online.” - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli


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