Applying for Job Roles Takes Time, Commitment, and Energy ....

Dear Job Applicants and Recruiters,

Applying for job roles takes time, commitment, & energy. ⏰ 💪 🏁

This post is for those of you who are in the process of applying for your next career move or a reminder to recruiters what each application is 'costing' a person in relation to their time, commitment, & energy, and there's also a couple of P.S's specifically for recruiters to consider ......

For each application you put forward you are having to;

👉 Find the roles 'fit' with your career aspirations. 👀

👉 Read the advertisement, the JD/Person Specification, & research the company. 📖

👉 As most applications are done over some sort of online platform you have to go through creating an account/registering before you can commence. ✍

👉 You have to review your CV & tailor it to the position. ♻

👉 You have to write a cover letter to sell yourself & your achievements aligned to the role. ✍

👉 Sometimes its just a matter of uploading your CV & cover letter, others you have to complete the fields on their online platform (which is often a repetition of your CV and cover letter content!) or if the fields are populated from your uploaded CV or you LinkedIn profile, you have to check that the fields

are correct. 💾

👉 Then you send off your application & you will get an acknowledgment that they have received your CV. 📬

👉 Some organisations at this stage may have some testing you need to complete. 📝

👉 Then you wait, & you wait, & you wait .......... ⏳ 🕔 📅

👉 Some companies will come back to you in hours, some in days, some in weeks, some in months, & some never get back to you with the 'thanks but no thanks' or you may strike it 'lucky' ☘ & you get invited to the next stage of the companies recruitment process.

Multiply this by every job you are applying for & you can see why it takes takes time, commitment, and energy. ⏰ 💪 🏁

Wherever you are in your process of applying for your next career move, but especially if you are not getting interviews, you need to;

✅ Be resilient,

✅ Review your job search strategy,

✅ Review your CV, &

✅ Review your approach to writing your cover letters.

And most importantly from time to time step back from applying for jobs & take a break from it. Use this time to breathe, reflect & regroup, so you can come back to it re-energised to start again.

P.S. To those that are advertising jobs, do the right thing & send those 'thanks, but no thanks' responses to a persons application. If they've taken the time, commitment, & energy to apply, the polite & professional thing to do is give them a response. They are human, they have feelings, & they deserve your respect, they may well remember the human touch if you are advertising other roles in the future.

P.P.S. To those advertising jobs, don't send those 'thanks, but no thanks' emails out of work hours, on the weekend, or on a Friday afternoon. I don't think this is rocket science to change your automation settings, it just looks unprofessional & 'gutless' in my book.