Manage Your Job Search

1 Become Your Own Project Manager

You want to optimize your job search, so you want to spend your time wisely. You know you’ll have to repeat the send-a-résumé, wait-for-an-answer loop. You’ll have to customize each cover letter for each new opportunity.

What if I told you that you could iterate on everything for your job search project—that you could iterate on how you decide where to look for a job, who to ask for a recommendation, how to network, where to network, absolutely everything for your job search project? And, what if I told you that your data collected from week to week could drive your decision-making?

Once you start networking, sending out resumes, and working your system, you could easily lose track of where you are: Who did ...