Change non-working job hunting strategies

There is definitely something to be said about staying with a plan through the good times and the bad times. You take the enormous amount of time brainstorming and plodding out what you are going to do down to the smallest detail, so you aren’t going to abandon it when things go a little wrong are you. Well, not at first of course you should always give a plan a chance to work and especially to fail. But the question is, how long should you let it fail before discarding the plan completely. When you are job hunting don’t waste time when you know something isn’t helping you.


Many years ago after college I got the idea that sending out resumes and cover letters to companies across the country was a good job hunting strategy. Did I stop after the first 50 came back with rejection form letters, no and I didn’t stop after 100 or 150 rejection letters? Finally after 200 rejection letters I realized that this wasn’t the way to go about a job search. I had it in my mind that mass mailings was the way to go to get job leads, of course it wasn’t. But I still wasted an incredible amount of time, effort and money trying to make it work.

After that I went on to other strategies that worked much better. I keep an open mind and realized that I had to keep my options open and not depend on one job hunting strategy.

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