The 6 Things You Are Doing Wrong in Your Job Search

 kasollmann@gmail.com (Kathryn Sollmann)

Whether the target is a retail job on Main Street or an executive-level job in the C-suite, stress is still high among long-frustrated job seekers. There's no shortage of fingers pointing at potential culprits. Depending on your politics, it could be the House, the Senate, Obamacare or presidents who have long left Washington, D.C.

When you're worried about making ends meet today -- and unable to even think about the financial security you'll need through decades of retirement -- it's easy to blame everyone and everything for your misfortune. The fact is, though, that job seekers are not powerless victims of an economy that has volatile fits and starts.

The reality is that strategic, optimistic and tenacious full-time job seekers do find jobs. The more lackadaisical, defeated, angry, once-in-a-while job seekers do not.

So many job seekers need to hear this -- including a 22-year-old recent college grad who is waitressing in Washington, D.C. I read about this young woman in a Business Weekarticle, "You Can Have Any Job You Want As Long As It's Waitress". She is not in her desired line of work -- she's hoping to land a job at a think tank or policy-related organization. I applaud her for not letting her ego get in the way of a paycheck, but I think there are probably some big holes in her job search strategy overall.

My first clue was the fact that this young woman has applied to about 20 companies with "minimal response." Job search pessimists would read this and say, "Well of course -- it's an uncertain economy, few employers are hiring and young people are having the hardest time of all."

But on the job search optimists side, I say that anyone can find a job in any economy. At last count, there are far more than 20 potential employers in Washington, Source: haffingtonpost