There's a difference between spending six months looking for a job and actually doing six months of job searching.
I spoke with a candidate recently who'd applied to 90 jobs in six months. That's about one application every two days.
Here's the thing: if you don't have a job, your job is to get a job. One application every two days isn't a job. It's a hobby. Most people badly underestimate how many applications a good job gets, so they send one every couple of days and hope something eventually falls into their lap.
That's not how life works.
The truth is this: if you want the career and the salary you really want, you have to do things other people aren't willing to do. Business works the same way. You get paid for solving harder problems, and the harder the problem, the more you get paid. That's why CEOs make millions. They solve very, very difficult problems.
Now, 90 applications could be great. If you did serious research on each company, reached out to the decision-makers, and gave every one of them a compelling reason to hire you, 90 is plenty.
But if you're just clicking Apply a few times a week?
Six months going by doesn't mean you've been working hard at finding a job. It means six months went by.
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