Ownership

It's practically guaranteed: Each day you spend looking for a new position in a half-baked fashion, you’ll buy yourself at least two more days of looking. Looking for a new position is, at the very least, a fulltime job. And it’s your job. Not the headhunter, the business associate, or your mate; it’s your job.

So think about this for a second: If you hate doing a job search and you’re doing anything less than a superlative job conducting your job search, then you’re likely to have to continue doing what you hate a lot longer than if you just get down to business and get the job done – meaning you get yourself a job.

"I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done," particularly when it comes to your own life and your own job search.  Once you realize, really realize, that the job search is your job, you’ll change what you’re doing and start doing it better. 

When all is said and done, you’ve got to own your stuff in everything you do, including the job search.

To your own, self-made success,

Rita

PS: Well-done is always better than well-said.