By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
In this video, Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter speaks about the emotional toll job hunting can take and what you can do about it.
Are You Playing By Someone Else’s Rules?
I’m Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter. I’m referred to as The Big Game Hunter. Well, I’ve been hunting down leaders and staff for organizations for 40 plus years.
I thought I would do a video about the emotional side of job hunting because most of what I deal with in these videos involve tactics, strategies, things along those lines. But there’s an emotional side, an emotional toll that comes with job hunting. A lot of people, they’re home from work, they develop procrastination skills.
This is hard. I’m too tired. Yada, yada, yada.
Or you’re not working because you’ve lost your job and you start spending a lot of time staring at the refrigerator and what’s in it or suddenly you start drinking or getting high in different ways. You know what I’m talking about. I just want to point out, these are common and maladaptive responses, bad responses to your circumstances.
You are far better off doing two things. Number one, getting coaching advice to help you with your job search or number two, working on the emotional issues that’s causing you the anxiety or depression that’s causing you to take out your fears in these kinds of ways. You’re not good to any employer if you walk in with a hangover.
It’s not that they’re going to know that you have a hangover, but you’re just not going to perform well in your interviews. You’re not going to get jobs so easily if your pantsuit doesn’t fit you properly, if your blouse or shirt opens in inappropriate places. It just doesn’t work.
Better to spend time on a treadmill if you’re out of work or if you are working. Better to spend time on a cross-trainer. Better to spend time doing meditation rather than acting out of your frustrations, fears, depression in ways that are going to hurt you.
And they will hurt you, unfortunately. No one really talks about this stuff, but I see it all the time in my work as a headhunter where I talk to folks who are panicked and understandably so. They’re down to their last dollars.
They’re becoming frightened. They’re talking to me, hoping that I can find something for them quickly and I can’t. Companies have their own timeline and it’s not like you can pressure them into acting differently because they don’t care about your circumstances.
They’re trying to hire the best person for themselves. So, work on the emotional side of your response to looking for work. If you’re working and you’re procrastinating about looking, you’re not doing the kind of things to develop your skills, to network properly, to post your resume on job boards, to respond to ads, to contact the recruiters.
What’s that really about? What are you frightened of that’s keeping you from doing that and what’s at risk for you to take the appropriate steps to act in the right way? Lord knows, you don’t want to be in your current job and there’s a fear of going to the next one. You need to solve that in order to break free and it takes some time and it takes some effort. Now, I happen to do coaching but if you want to contact someone else, that’s certainly fine.
I also want to say that I have a lot of videos that deal with tactics and strategies that can help you break through some things but, fundamentally, this is an emotional thing and trained as a therapist for a lot of years, practiced for a lot of years. I can help you. So, this is Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter.
I hope you found this video helpful. If you did and you’re watching on YouTube, share it, leave a comment, click the like button. Do something that lets others know that this was helpful to you.
Now, at the same time, I want to encourage you to come over to my website which is TheBigGameHunter.us. Again, TheBigGameHunter.us. I’ve got content there. I have access to information about my coaching program, a lot of good material to help you as a job hunter or help you if you’re a hiring manager find individuals, find opportunities. Just go to the website.
Go exploring this content there, the things that you can do. Again, TheBigGameHunter.us. So, a few final things. First of all, if you have a question about some aspect of job hunting, contact me through liveperson.com. That’s L-I-V-E, person.com. I’m a job search and career coaching expert.
If you want personal coaching from me, vippersonalsearch.com. It’s another way to reach out and find out specifically about my coaching program. And that’s LinkedIn through TheBigGameHunter.us. Finally, I’m sorry, it’s not finally. Yeah, it is finally.
If we’re not connected on LinkedIn, send me a connection request. LinkedIn.com forward slash IN forward slash TheBigGameHunter. I’ll accept connection requests from people worldwide, except if you look like a spammer like someone did yesterday with zero connections and they reach out to me.
Come on! So, this is Jeff Altman. Hope you have a great day. Take care!
