Its Not All About You - Copeland Coaching

Its Not All About You Job searching involves quite a lot of internal reflection. If youre looking for a job or thinking of looking, you know what I mean. You initially spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. What do you want to do with your life? Where do you want to live? Does your resume look good? Do you have the right suit to wear to interviews? We very often start off a job search after a difficult set of circumstances. If things were going great, why would you job search? Very often, you might not like your boss at your current job (or they might not like you). Youve tried to make it work until one day, you think you will collapse if you have to walk back through the front doors of your office again. Getting ready for a job search, and the interviews that come from it, can be almost like a healing process. You are finally turning over a new leaf. Youre getting yourself together again. Through this process, we begin to feel that as long as we present our best self, well land a new job. And, we assume that when we dont win an interview, we must have done something wrong. Because, it was our job to be our best self and we must have failed at that job. Right? Maybe, but not necessarily. Listen, I dont want to minimize the importance of getting your best self together. Youve got to do that. But, there are a lot of reasons you might not get a job that have nothing to do with you. For example, a company sometimes puts hiring on hold. In fact, they may decide not to hire someone at all. Or, they may already have someone in the role (as a contractor) and they may be doing interviews just to go through the process. Sometimes, companies do interviews to meet a quota. Or, sometimes the future boss will leave the company for another job while interviews are going on, and the company will wait to proceed until theyve filled the managers job. The company will not tell you any of these things. At no point will they say, Were just interviewing you because we have to interview at least five people. They will also not say, Our company is doing badly and upper management has put a freeze on hiring. I dont share this to say that you dont have a shot. You absolutely do. You have to give it your all in every interview, or you definitely wont find the job of your dreams. But, when you get rejected, dont use it as an opportunity to beat yourself down. Dont tear yourself apart thinking about everything you did wrong. We can all do better. Strive to do your best and then let the rest go. Theres a lot of the hiring process that is beyond your control. I hope these tips have helped you. Visit CopelandCoaching.com to find more tips to improve your job search. If I can be of assistance to you, don’t hesitate to reach out to me here. Also, be sure to subscribe to my Copeland Coaching Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher where I discuss career advice every Tuesday! If youve already heard the podcast and enjoy it, please consider leaving a review in iTunes or Stitcher. Happy hunting! Angela Copeland @CopelandCoach