How to Get Work When None is Available: Navigating a Frozen Job Market
My client was a top account executive at a major technology firm before succumbing to a “RIF” (reduction in force).
Now, he was doing everything right with his job search:
· Adapting his resume for job descriptions
· Networking to get internal referrals
· Diligently watching his top-20 company list to jump on appropriate job openings
Yet, he hadn’t received one interview request in 5 months since the layoff.
He told me job-hunting was his full-time job, and it was going nowhere.
Can you imagine a full-time job where all you get is rejection?*
That’s when he reached out to me.
My client’s quandary presented me with a challenge: What value could I add for someone who was already doing everything right?
As our meeting progressed and I learned more about him, I became concerned.
Like anyone in his situation, rejection after rejection was starting to take its toll, and something needed to change immediately.
He had some financial leeway, so getting a job wasn’t about a dire need for a paycheck. It was about the fact that he had just come off his best…
