Stop "Job Search." Start "Work Search"

 If you can't sympathize and can't gain insights into others' problems and needs, your job search can be long and painful. Stop "Job Search." Start "Work Search". Here is how.

Exercise: Job Search Has Become Ineffective

Why Think Differently About Job Search?

Job search has become the most diabolical of systems. It's a system that looks fine on the outside; but from the inside, it is slowly killing souls, costing money and wasting time. Like a devil with a winning smile dressed up in a $2,000 suit with not a pointed horn in sight.

As anyone who's been through it already knows, when a person sits down at the computer and starts tossing resumes out into cyberspace, stands in line and fills out applications, pays people to fashion a resume that must surely be better because it's paid for --- most of the time, nothing happens.

Watch the terror-stricken eyes of a person reading job ads as she slowly realizes, "Wait! Nothing here describes me!"

Watch what happens when a recruiter lies about a job because their client just lied to them or could not express what they wanted in the first place.

Job search becomes a barren and cold place where people work really hard and nothing happens. But most of all, it's lonely. The kind of lonely uniquely and sharply felt while standing in a big crowd of people.

We have equated work search with job search. The result is an isolated, demoralizing, illogical path down that rabbit hole where all the unread old resumes go.

Where does the problem start?

Job Search vs. Work Search

We forget that work and jobs are not always the same. Simple point, right?

Not really. Often the two words are used interchangeably. As if the difference between the two words doesn't matter, and we're saying the same thing two different ways.

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