Manage Your Job Search

12 Try These Tips

Does your job hunting need a little boost? These tips may help.

12.1 Make Your ToDos Small Enough to Complete in Two Hours or Less

Are you keeping your ToDos small? If you feel stuck, make your ToDos even smaller.

When you are searching for a job, you often find yourself with an hour or two between phone screens or interviews. You want to use that time. You have just enough time to research a company or a hiring manager. Or, just enough time to read a white paper. Or just enough time to prep for an interview. But you don’t have enough time to complete something large, such as redrafting your résumé.

Redrafting your résumé is several ToDos: Write a first draft, get the résumé reviewed by a few trusted colleagues, edit it again, ...