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How To Get A Job You Love
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How To Get A Job You Love

by John Lees
September 2023
Beginner content levelBeginner
272 pages
4h 44m
English
Pearson Business
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chapter 11

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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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ISBN: 9781292731445