What’s your Little Bit a’ Heaven? If you’re employed and in job search, I bet it’s TIME! There’s simply not enough of it. How do you make time for your job search while you’re working at a job? Try these 7 Action Steps:
- List all of your activities/responsibilities and number them by priority.
- If job change isn’t at the top, re-think your priorities. Then re-number your list. If it’s still not at the top, maybe it’s not the right time for a job change.
- If it is at the top, write your name next to it and make YOURSELF a top priority. Other responsibilities screaming for your attention will need to be muted, until you’ve reached your career goal.
- Schedule weekly time-slots in your calendar dedicated to working on your search project.
- Don’t go home. After work go to the library, a café, or anywhere without distractions (and other screaming responsibilities).
- Maintain your time commitment to your project (and yourself).
- Track your progress and regularly re-evaluate your plan, so that you’re using only strategies that move you forward and discarding others.
P.S. Make sure that networking is also in your plan!