The Past Few Months
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As you might have guessed from my previous post, finding a job in Young’s native region didn’t go quite as quickly as I’d hoped. Over the past few months, I have gotten a little contract work, but nothing permanent.
In part, I realize, this is because I haven’t really been going about things in an efficient way. I tend to focus hard on one opportunity at a time, and fail to pay attention to other possibilities. My current plans are to send out resumes to the last handful of local companies that might could use my skills, and if I don’t hear anything fairly quickly, to apply with a temp agency. Since I work in the technology sector, I think it should be fairly easy to get a temp position, but I also thought getting a full-time job wouldn’t be that hard either.
Probably one of the reasons that I am inefficient in my job search is that I’ve never really had to do this before. I had to do almost no searching for my previous job, and it was my first formal employment. The lesson? Don’t be limited by your background or your personality. Where either of them are obstacles, work to adapt.