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Try This If You Have Been Unemployed A Long Time!!

How long have you been unemployed? 6 months, 2 years? Well, quite a number of people are struggling with unemployment whether they are graduates who are looking for their first job, whether it’s people who’ve been laid off, or even those who’ve been fired

How do you deal with such instances? Consider the following tips which were recently shared on a career website

1. Recognize that what you’ve been doing is not working
Now, this is not to say that they couldn’t work and haven’t worked for other people. But, for whatever reason, whatever you’ve been doing has not worked for you. After accepting this fact, be willing to make some changes.

2. Volunteer in a non-traditional fashion and include your work on your CV.
It’s not a bad thing to sort items at a thrift store, or paint walls at a youth center or any other related volunteer gigs. In fact, these are excellent things to do. But, if you are looking for a job, you need relevant, current work on your CV. So take up jobs related to your profession, even when they don’t pay.

3. Evaluate if jobs in your field will be available in the future.
There are some jobs that are not coming back. It doesn’t matter how good you are at a particular job, if no one needs that work done any more, you won’t get rehired. As bad and frustrating as it may sound, if your field is a dead one, it’s time for retraining.

4. Figure out what jobs are available. Who is hiring?
Once you find the jobs, go through their requirements and see if they are what you are looking for. What skills do you need for those jobs? Are they vastly different from what you know? What course can you take up to get these jobs?

5. Learn something new.
Whatever it is you know, it isn’t enough right now. You need to learn something new. Your papers are not enough to get you a job months or a year from now. You need to keep up with the trend if you want to land a job soon.

6. Don’t be too picky.
The reality is, the high paying job that you once had may not be back for years. You may well need to compromise on a few issues to gain entry to the job market. Once you are in, you can then work your way to the area you want to work in.

7. De-clutter online presence.
Make sure you aren’t tagged in any untoward photos on Facebook. (You can un-tag yourself, even if your friend posted the picture.) Update your LinkedIn and confirm that it does not have information you wouldn’t want to bring up in a job interview.

Ask yourself, “What would people think about me, if they examined my online presence?”

6. Treat your job search like a full time job.
For 8 hours every day, you should be doing something to further your job search. This can be expanding skills or setting up informational interviews. Ask yourself, “how will what I am about to do help me get a job?”
Finding a new job isn’t easy. But making some changes may open up some new doors.

Source: CBS News

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