Why Your Job Search Will Take Longer Than You Think

By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

When I first started in recruiting, there was a maxim that was believed that a job search would take a month for every $10,000 of income. That isn’t true anymore and no one quotes that belief any longer.

What I can tell you is true is that most job searches take longer than anyone expects them to take.

Why?

Part of it is that most of you don’t know how to job hunt.

Part of it is that most of you don’t know how to network.

Part of it is you’re still applying to jobs as your primary strategy for finding work.

Part of it is that most of you don’t know how to interview PARTICULARLY if you think your experience interviewing job hunters translates well into YOU being interviewed.

Part of it is you don’t know how to negotiate and don’t recognize when a firm has started its negotiations with you (it isn’t at the end of the interview when they are making you an offer).

The fact is that almost everyone I have worked with is either recruiter or, as a coach is an amateur at job hunting. As a result of their ineptitude, they make mistakes that cost them opportunities and put themselves behind the eight ball with finding a new job.