TOSS THE DICE, ACE THE INTERVIEW AND GET THE JOB.
Recruiters and counselors say it takes nine months to two years now to find a job.
How can this be? Do the job gods have some kind of a secret formula? Is it a conspiracy? Where is it written that it takes the average unemployed individual that long to find his or her next job? Where is it written that it has to take that long?
Nine months. The time it takes to grow a baby. Astounding. That is the length of time it takes for most folks I know who seek new employment after a layoff or job termination.
After months of interview after interview, suddenly something must kick in. Were all those interviews granted during the nine months, unsatisfactory ones? Or are employers and job seekers programmed for that nine month time frame, brainwashed, perhaps, because it’s a commonly-held belief? Or could all the “gestation period” job ads of those nine months be phony or pulled last minute by companies fearful of their own finances?
Why are the stakes so poor in the early phase of job search for many folks? And how come the stakes are so poor that no one seems to get the first job for which they interview—out of the gate? What accounts for that dismal record? If we used algorithms, would we understand the odds? If we used Bell Jar graphs, would we understand the statistics?
I suspect it might be due to the fact that a job loss is so disorienting that it leaves people in such a bewildered state and renders them ineffectual. It’s as if job loss is a sentence that one isn’t worthy of work and which one absorbs and internalizes like a conviction.
Perhaps it does take months of interview practice before one can shake a vibe of disconnectedness to give a solid interview that leads to a job offer. There must be a warm-up time necessary to be “interview-ready” just like a physical workout is designed to make one physically fit. This nine month duration phenomena necessary to become reemployed is what gives birth to the vast industry of how to job search. You can’t get away from it.
Perhaps for the jobless individual, it’s about acceptance of a job loss, letting it go, and moving on freely to being less self conscious, less ego-bruised and at one’s professional best. Like everything else, finding a job takes time. You can’t rush a cake baking in the oven, either.
It may take time to recapture belief in yourself and that you can get another job. It may take time to psychologically prep yourself to believe you already have the job you want. Maybe it’s a knack to master, like everything else in life.
And what about the employers seeking to hire? Do they also need a lead-in time and are finally “primed?” Does it take each of them nine or more months to find the “right” person for their job? Or are they simply exhausted from endless interviewing on the other side of the desk and are ready to drop defenses and open to accept a new candidate instead of looking to always weed out? Human resource reps put every candidate under a microscope in such scrutiny and detail that if candidates were clothing for sale in a store, no would be buying. Is it for them like buying furniture or a house and not being able to make up their minds? Do they toss a heap of resumes in the air and pick at random from the fallen pile? Do they finally settle in and come down to earth, ready to do business, and make a commitment?
-By The Job Goddess Who Won’t Rest Till Everyone Is Put To Work!
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