How to Use Your Job Search to Make You a Better Professional

Job searching can be brutal. It tests your patience, your confidence, and your resolve.

But if you shift your focus from results to wisdom, everything changes.

That’s what I’m teaching in this week’s lesson, how to use your job search to make you a better professional.

In the video, I share a personal story about recently finishing my new book. It’s now off and running with the publisher, moving through the production process.

The moment I hit send, I sat in my favorite Pottery Barn Wells swivel chair and thought for 20 minutes about nothing but the “agony” I’m going to endure over the next 12 months.

Kidding aside, I genuinely did this. I didn’t think about how many copies I might sell or what it’d take to make a bestseller list. I focused on something more important, the skills I need to strengthen over the next year as I market and launch this new book.

You might think that because this is my fifth time around, I’d have mastered it by now. But if you assumed that, you’d be completely wrong.

Yes, I’ve done a lot right and built some great skills when it comes to marketing a book. But many efforts have fallen short of my hopes. Some were dead ends. Others just confused the heck out of me. Which means only one thing, I need to try new things, keep learning, and keep building.

Does this sound like your job search?

The things you think will work don’t. The things you don’t expect to work do. It’s effort, surprises, ups, and downs. That’s just life in a nutshell.

And what I’m about to say might sound like common sense. But I’m guessing it’ll only sound like common sense after I actually say it.

If you’re going to go through a job search, why not gain the benefits of the experience?

If we agree those benefits come in the form of new experiences and better skills, then it’s time to ask yourself…

What skills do you want to build throughout your job search?

Watch the full lesson: How to Use Your Job Search to Make You a Better Professional!

FREE BOOKLET: 10 SKILLS TO BUILD WHILE YOU JOB HUNT
While you’re watching today’s video, grab the free notes and checklist I created to go with the lesson.

It’s called 10 Skills to Build While You Job Hunt, and it walks you through the key abilities you can strengthen during your job search.

These are the very same skills that’ll help you grow and stay in control of your career.

Download your free guide here: Get the 10 Skills to Build While You Job Hunt

Turn your search into something that teaches you, not just tests you.

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Andrew LaCivita, a globally-renowned career and leadership coach, is the founder of the milewalk Academy®. During the course of his distinguished career, he has impacted over 350 companies, more than 100,000 individuals, and spanned nearly 200 countries, helping them unlock their full potential. He is an award-winning author who gained international recognition with his groundbreaking books, Interview Intervention: Communication That Gets You Hired, The Hiring Prophecies: Psychology behind Recruiting Successful Employees, and The Zebra Code: A Step-By-Step Guide to Mastering Career Skills That Make You a Standout Professional. These seminal works, along with his celebrated vlog, Tips for Work and Life®, consistently earn top spots on reputable, worldwide lists which rank the best career advice books and blogs. Andrew remains actively engaged across various social media platforms and shares his expertise through his weekly Live Office Hours on YouTube every Thursday.