HBR Guide to Your Job Search

CHAPTER 2

Job Hunting While Working Full-Time

by Elizabeth Grace Saunders

It’s time for a change.

Maybe there’s bad management in your workplace, your pay isn’t keeping up with your expenses, or you’re just feeling burned out. Or maybe you’re not feeling any extremely negative emotions toward your current position, but you’d like to do something new, find more opportunities for growth, or simply have greater flexibility and better benefits.

So you tell yourself that it’s time to look for a new job. But how? Between maintaining your current position, taking care of home responsibilities, decompressing, and getting essentials like food and sleep, you feel as if you just don’t have enough time. You don’t want to fall behind at work, and your outside ...