Manage Your Job Search

11 Avoid These Traps

Using timeboxes and personal kanban as a project management approach helps us avoid traps. Even so, it helps to articulate the traps, so we can see how to avoid them.

11.1 Be Kind to Yourself; Don’t Beat Yourself Up

After you send an email or make a phone call or have an interview, you might replay your actions and say to yourself, “Oh, I could have written that cover email better, or answered that question better, or asked that question better, or done something different.” Fine.

Can you do anything about this with this prospective employer now? If so, act. Can you do anything differently the rest of this week that will make a difference for your job search right now? Make a sticky and put it on your list of ToDos.

If your ...