In this week's Aol jobs i wrote about a very personal story.
'Many Thanks': How To Deal With Rejection During
Your Job Search -
Learn to let it slide off you
read the full story here
Here is some highlights:
Here's my advice for the rejected job applicant,
which I'm in the midst of practicing:
best opportunity you are working on. Hopefully you are working on multiple
job possibilities, since today you just can't sit back and wait for one
job to process at a time. This is a market where you have to be juggling
multiple opportunities at once because of how challenging it is to secure
any one of them.
to not take rejection personally. However, the reason you didn't get the
job was probably the result of a variety of factors and not just a fault
of yours.
like doing, but if you see in my rejection email the door may still remain
open for future work, so you never want to slam that door shut. You may
even impress people by handling the rejection with class and maturity.
interviewer he/she could possibly recommend you to someone else in their
network. Connect on LinkedIn with the hiring manager and
anyone else you met in the interview process to make them part of your
LinkedIn network.
you feedback. Find out what you could have done to be a stronger
candidate. In my years leading NhN, I have rarely heard of an interviewer
receiving feedback, but it's still worth the try. Another NhN member, in
his own words, "blew an interview," but still got a pretty nice
and detailed email on how he could do better next time. If you don't ask
you will never get this feedback and when you do get it, you can learn
valuable information about how you can do better next time.
you used for the job. The five references I was able to get from key people
in a short time will be very helpful even for future jobs.
dust yourself off, follow these tips, and keep building toward your
eventual success.
"Absolutely Abby" Abby
Kohut shared this advice with me when I shared my rejection with her. "If
you get rejected from a job, it wasn't your job to have. I can think of
countless things that I was disappointed about in my career that turned out to
just be blips. Right after the rejections something even better lurked around
the corner. Keep your head high and get back on the horse as fast as possible.
"Also, even if you love a job and are sure
you are the perfect candidate, you need to have other opportunities in the
hopper. It won't sting as much if you have possibilities waiting in the
wings."
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