Video: How to Stay Optimistic while Job Hunting

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Everyone gets down when unemployed. Learn how to keep your spirits high when job hunting in this free video clip from a professional job consultant.

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100003509166111 Feb 08, 2012
This was very useful to me. As I have been unemployed for over a year being positive and optimistic is very important but when you are being constantly reminded about the economic downturn it is not very easy to stay on course.
Petermpete Jul 25, 2008
I work as a researcher for a parastatal organisation responsible for SMMEs development and promotion, and there is a new post "Buisness Opportunities Researcher" I would like to apply. Obviously I would like to equip myself more on this as it is a little bit diiferent from general research I currently do. Please assist in this regard. If you could also be able to provide a procedure or process available to enable me to perform the above.

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Hi! This is Tine Buechler from Business Growth Training and I am here today on behalf of Expert Village.com. In this clip we are going to talk about the emotional impact of looking for work. One of the things that many people who are looking for work, they are looking for a very specific kind of job. I’m looking for an office job; I’m looking for a manufacturing job; I’m looking for a sales job; I’m looking for a management job but what they are not saying is I am looking for a job to be self-employed in commissioned sales. And when you are looking for work that is exactly what you are doing. You are self-employed and you are in commissioned sales. You are self-employed because you are determining what you are going to sell, what are your skills and abilities, what you are going to sell. You have developed your own marketing materials. Your resume, your cover letter, references and any other tools you are going to use in your job search. You have to determine who you are going to sell it to. You have to create a list of prospects. You have to negotiate with these prospects with the whole purpose of landing a sales interview or job interview and then once you’ve done that job interview and you’ve done that well, you need to negotiate the price. So it really is about being self-employed in commissioned sales. With that though comes a huge emotional impact. A lot of people are frightened about doing sales especially sales about themselves and so employers want to hire people who are positive, who are upbeat and who are confident. Often we are not confident about the ability to sell ourselves and that translates to lack of confidence in our skills. So the key thing to do; first thing is look at the emotional impact of that looking for a job is having on you. Look at the emotional impact being self-employed in commissioned sales is having on you. How is it affecting your self-esteem? How is it affecting your self-confidence? Your morale? Your motivation? How is your job search affecting you socially and within your family? All of these things are things to consider before you launch on your job search because you need to keep track of your emotional thermometer. So the whole process of job search so that you stay positive, upbeat and confident and therefore, become more easily hired.

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How to Stay Optimistic while Job Hunting

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