If you say to yourself: “I can’t get a job”, it’s worth exploring the reasons so that find a decent place.
Career counseling psychologists often encounter a similar problem and give effective advice on how to solve it.
What are the reasons?
Why can't I get a job?
Why not hire or why not lucky with work?
There are many reasons why you just can not find a decent place starting with a banal lack of experience and ending with your personal qualities.
How are you looking for a job?
Are you visiting places?
Do you consider your abilities?
And do you really have the motivation to find a good place with decent pay?
It is worth asking yourself these questions.to find the root cause of failures.
The main reasons why do not hire:
- Search wrong. What does it mean? Wrong resume, go for an interview in the wrong company, wasting precious time.
You want a lot at once, not wanting to learn and gain experience.
There are job seekers who are aiming for a high position without having either skills, or knowledge, or at least some experience related to a particular type of activity. Naturally, employers will refuse.
- Diffidence. The recruitment manager, as a rule, is a good psychologist and sees if the applicant is confident in his abilities. If in doubt, you are more likely to be refused. You can be an uncertain person in life in general, and then you are more likely not to take a position that requires constant communication with people.
- Do not take into account their inclinations. At school, many are being tested to determine which direction a person should go next. Someone better to work with people, another with technology, the third with nature. One with pleasure communicates, makes acquaintances, another prefers to work in silence in the absence of other people. What job are you looking for? Does it correspond to your orientation and does it not contradict the natural inclinations of the personality?
- There is a difficult situation in the labor market and few jobs for your specialty.
In this situation, someone prefers to wait and unsuccessfully look for a suitable place, and someone is undergoing retraining.
- You really don't want to work. Sometimes a long search for a suitable place is just a reason not to really go to work. The person pretends that he is looking for, refuses many suitable options or tries to work for several days and leaves. If you have additional income or someone provides you, then the job search may be delayed for a long time. There is no motivation, incentive, in fact, you are satisfied with the current state of affairs.
Perhaps you are constantly go to different interviewsbut they refuse you, they promise to call you back and do not call back.
There are reasons for this too, and by removing them you can finally find a suitable place.
Why not hire:
- Incorrectly created resume. It should involve, tell about the basic skills, show you from the advantageous side, but not over praise. A resume is the first thing potential employers are looking at, and screenings often occur already at this stage.
- Untidy appearance, discrepancy of the company's dress code. Evaluation of the interlocutor occurs in the first seconds of communication.
If your appearance pushes away, the chances of getting a job are significantly reduced.
- Too late for an interview. Employers are looking for punctual employees, this is especially important when selecting for a serious position.
- Uncertain answers to questions, doubts in their competence, avoiding answers. You may also be asked what you know about the company you are going to get.
- Too frequent change of previous jobsa short period of work.
- Criticize former bosses, Negative about him and about the team. This may indicate your poor social adaptation, difficulties in finding a common language with people. For posts that require constant communication, this factor is important.
- You show no interest in work, do not ask questions about a specific position, company.
- Recruiter did not like your behavior - answered too harshly, impolitely, were rude, inattentively listened, interrupted, tried to show their “steepness” without confirming their experience with facts.
- Refuse to perform the test task. In some positions it is provided for - the employer in practice wants to evaluate your skills in order to select the most suitable candidate.
- Data verification did not confirm your reliability.
Large companies may require specifications from the previous place of work, check your purity before the law.
If the past employer or colleagues speak negatively about the applicant, this may be the reason for refusal.
- Post mismatch. You are not looking for a job based on your qualifications, education or work experience.
- Just a black stripe in life. This period is worth experiencing.
After learning reasons for failures and by adjusting your approach to job search, you will find a suitable place much faster.
Psychology tips
What if you can not get anywhere? First, you should carefully examine and understand the reasons why this is happening.
Do not be afraid to realistically assess yourself and your strength. Adequate self-esteem is the first step to success.
If you can’t decide on the choice of a specialty, go to a psychologist working in the direction of vocational guidance, pass special tests to identify abilities.
What to do:
- Do not panic, try not to get depressed. Potential employers read your mood and uncertainty. If you already come to the interview with doubts, then the employer will also begin to doubt if he needs you.
- If possible, get additional training, attend trainings and courses. Employment centers in large cities offer various retraining programs.
- Expand your business contacts and contacts.. Constantly meet new people - it is likely that you can find work through them.
- Do not complain about your plight and failure - so you push people away from you. Try to be positive, but really assess your position.
- Change your way of thinking. If you are set to fail, they will always be with you. People who believe in success get what they want much faster.
Pay attention to your mood prevails, the words of which emotional coloring are most often encountered in your speech, and which thoughts are more negative or positive.
- If there is no experience try first with simple posts. You can get a courier in a large company, and then climb higher on the career ladder.
- Soberly assess your capabilities. If you do not have an economic education - you will not be taken to the bank.
- When you come to the interview, radiate self-confidence, but she should not go into overconfidence.
- Develop a charisma, work on your personality, behavior, leadership qualities.
- Get rid of fears - they make it difficult to move forward. Wins the one who knows how to risk, while skillfully evaluating all the chances of success.
- Properly make your resume. If you do not know how to do it correctly, contact a professional recruiter. The summary should not be too long and vague. Among the data submitted, a potential employer should see exactly what he needs for a particular position. It should be clear, not contain anything extra.
Create several resume options depending on the company and position you are applying for.
- If you were refused for one job, ask if there are no others in this company. Sometimes you need to persevere. Ask to leave your phone number to call you back if a suitable option appears.
Fundamental rules
Work searches - it is a constant movement.
Stop being afraid of failures - quite possibly, this is not your company and fate has withdrawn you from an inappropriate position.
Plan your interviews. Imagine that you need to ask a potential employer. Practice answering questions - let someone help you with this.
Sure to learn something about the companyin which you go for an interview. Large organizations will certainly ask if you know where you are going. Your interest in potential employers indicates that you are serious about your job interview, choosing your place of employment carefully.
At the interview, it is important to prove yourself, to show that you are the best among the submitted candidates. Pay attention to what you are wearing, what your hairstyle, smell.
For women suit business suit, a skirt with a simple blouse, a minimum of jewelry and the absence of a sharp smell of perfume. For men better to come in a suit.
An exception - Companies with a creative focus, where the opposite is welcome free style. That is why you should know in advance which company you are going to and what is her dress code.
Fundamental rules:
- competently create a resume;
- to come on time;
- To be self-confident;
- to conduct politely, benevolently, but not to ingratiate;
- to choose the right style of clothing;
- search for a specialty according to your abilities;
- believe in your own strength, be optimistic;
- understand exactly what you are looking for.
Job search is often a lottery, but luck loves those who do not give up and boldly go to their goal.
If you know what you want, then will certainly find a suitable option, even if it takes some time.
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