chapter 11
Dealing with knockbacks, and getting stuck
‘The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.’
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1840)
This chapter helps you to
- •cope with the predictable highs and lows of job change;
- •plan to deal with rejection;
- •get to grips with the word ‘realistic’;
- •get ‘unstuck’ if you feel you’re not making progress.
Following the cycle
Looking for a new role can be emotionally demanding – trying to make a career change even more so. Put an ordinary person into job hunting mode, and they behave differently to the relatively self-assured person they were just a few weeks before. Typically, job hunters ...
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