Prioritizing Your Job Search While Holding Down a Full-Time Job

Bossed Up

How do you make time to job search while keeping a full-time job going? Finding a job these days feels a lot like a full-time job in itself, and it’s not easy to make meaningful progress without completely exhausting yourself.

The reality of the modern job market is that it can take months to manifest a new offer. That’s a lot of time spent searching, so you need to have a sustainable plan in place. Having tackled this mountain recently myself, I have some tried and true tips to help you stay on track without running out of steam.

Get your action plan in place with these measurable and manageable tips:

• Why you should script your job search moves ahead of time;
• How to build out an impactful and trackable application strategy;
• How to stay realistic about the sacrifices you’ll need to make without going overboard.

Related Links:

• Episode 435, Grow Your Professional Network in the New Year - https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode435
• Episode 449, Your Cover Letter is Better With Bullet Points - https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode449
• Episode 450, Entrepreneurship vs. Employment: Building a Blended Career - https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode450
• Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip and Dan Heath - https://bookshop.org/p/books/switch-how-to-change-things-when-change-is-hard-dan-heath/943987?ean=9780385528757
• Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less by Tiffany Dufu - https://bookshop.org/p/books/drop-the-ball-achieving-more-by-doing-less-tiffany-dufu/8440970?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwir2xBhC_ARIsAMTXk87ULKKXylioThwgZ0ii3_BpBeMleVtIKcNnvWli6UvOngBkknREVMoaAn-qEALw_wcB
• S*** First Drafts by Anne Lamott - https://wrd.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/1-Shitty%20First%20Drafts.pdf
• Time To Hire Factbook by Josh Bersin - https://joshbersin.com/time-to-hire-benchmark-factbook/
• HIRED: my Job Search Accelerator - https://www.bossedup.org/gethired
• Bossed Up Courage Community - https://www.facebook.com/groups/927776673968737/
• Bossed Up LinkedIn Group - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7071888/