5 essences to help you stay motivated during your job search

5. Share your plans, doubts and achievements with someone you trust and can be open to.

Try to get support from your close family as well as someone neutral.

If you live with your partner or family, try to talk openly to them about your job search time. How do you all perceive the period? What expectations do you have of each other? What type of support would help you? What would they appreciate from your side? Open communication, the ability to speak, to listen, and to discuss are crucial. If you develop a supportive environment at home, it will give and save you a lot of energy. 

However, apart from your family or a partner, I would strongly recommend you to also find someone else who you can share your ideas, concerns and achievements with. Someone you will keep posted about your progress. If it is possible, choose someone more neutral such as a friend, a mentor or a coach, who is not directly affected by you having or not having a job (which is usually not the case with your partner or your family, e.g. due to a shared budget).

Perhaps you already know the difference it makes when you tell someone you are planning to do something, instead of just keeping the plan to yourself. This increases the likelihood that you will fulfil your plan, no matter whether we are talking about going to the gym, quitting smoking or doing a job search activity.

That is the first reason why it is useful to find somebody who you can keep posted about your job search activities, any difficulties you might come across and the progress you have made. It could be a friend, a schoolmate, someone who is also searching for a job, or a professional.

If you find someone who is from the field you are interested in, you can at the same time get a lot of useful information and advice, which is the second reason for doing this. What about asking someone who is experienced in the field to become your mentor? It could, for example, someone you got to know through networking, and who has given lots of support to your ambitions.

Thirdly, you could use a coach or a professional, who is an expert on the job search process and who will be able to help you with making a plan, identifying an ideal job for you, considering your job target, choosing  job search strategies, keeping motivated, solving your struggles, preparing CVs, cover letters, getting ready for interviews and many other issues.

You can have several people to share things with. No matter whether you choose a friend or a professional, the most important thing is that you do have someone you can share your doubts and achievements with.

Contact me, if you like, and I will be happy to support your job search through writing an article about your topic of interest; offering you some discount on coaching sessions; or sending you a couple of tips via e-mail. coach @ smallbigchange . com