Six posts in this series of articles about common job-hunting problems are now up!
Is your career going swimmingly? If you are totally satisfied with your career progress so far and confidently expect your career development to continue on a smooth upward path, until your eventual retirement, then read no further.
*Shaking myself awake from this utopian dream* If, however, you are like most of us and are struggling to balance life, career, money, hobbies and time, then you might have one of these problems:
- You’re not sure how your career could develop, or what sort of jobs you’d enjoy doing in the future
- You’ve heard about personal branding, online reputation and image management but aren’t sure how they apply to you or what you should do about it
- You’ve worked hard on your CV, but when you send it off you get very few interview invitations
- When you get to interviews and they ask you to name your key skills, top three strengths or tell them ‘why should we hire you for this role’, you panic and can’t think of what to say
- You’re often faced by application forms when you apply for jobs, and feel daunted by the large blank box asking you to explain why you’re suitable for the post
- At interviews you try and answer their questions to ‘tell me about a time when you....’ but they never seem satisfied with what you say and you have no idea what you’re doing wrong
- You always get asked tricky questions at interviews, about why you left previous jobs, or what you want to be doing in 5 years time, and you never know what to say for the best
These are common concerns that come up when I’m spending time with people I’m career coaching, so over the next few blog posts I’ll try and address a few of these issues and offer some suggested strategies to cope.
If you have come up against a different career development problem you’d like me to cover, why not add it in a comment below?
Six posts in the series are now up!
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