All Bait and No Fish

I’ve been helping a friend out with their job search for a couple of weeks, and got an email back from them the other day:

I applied for a few more with no response still. At this point it feels like throwing out a fishing line with no bait.

I wanted to share some of my responses to them, in case you are feeling the same way. A lot of it echoes things I’ve posted in the past, and I will link back to those earlier blogs when appropriate.

First, to re-state what I said yesterday: Job hunting (especially these days) is a process that takes months, and your first response could take weeks, not days. I don’t like it, you don’t have to like it, but that’s the state of things, irrespective of our feelings about it. The only way I’ve found to get past this is to...

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