How To Get A Job You Love

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 ...