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How to Find a Job Despite Crisis and Chaos!

September 4, 2020 by Bethanie Ryan

Where there is a challenge, there are also opportunities. You have no limits.

  • Think about where you really want to be — and what you are willing and able to do.
  • Evaluate your skills.
  • Update your résumé, and tailor it! Ask yourself: How can you make your application/résumé stand out?
  • Hiring supervisors do read cover letters, but they will stop reading if they think it’s a form letter you got off of the internet.
  • If you are switching careers and maybe don’t have a lot of experience that will make your résumé pop, explain why you applied in your cover letter. Even just showing passion can make them want to interview you!
  • Network, network, network.
  • Consider moving to where the jobs are. Stay with family and friends. Rebuild your life if your situation allows. 
  • Consider working nights. Go outside of your comfort zone.
  • Could you be a good caregiver? Do you have a car and are willing to deliver or drive others?
  • Or telecommute! Even though many workplaces have returned to their physical offices, COVID-19 has taught us that we don’t necessarily need to be in an office to work (and it saves a ton of money on transportation and dry cleaning in certain professions!)
  • Alert your references. 
  • Do what you need to now.
  • Consider internships, apprenticeships, job sharing — or even going back to school for training in a money-making area, such as science, technology, engineering, and math. But also consider becoming a plumber, HVAC tech, electrician, mechanic, etc. Be creative, and don’t limit yourself because of gender or education.
  • Make your boss’s life easy. When you are indispensable, you are likely to be the one to move up — and the last one on the chopping block if income falls. 

For many more articles on WORK, go here:

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By Serrin M. Foster
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Filed Under: Find a Job, Work Tagged With: Coronavirus, looking for a job, looking for employment, looking for work, unemployment

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