Job search got you down?  Looking for work not going your way?  Employment seems hard to find?  Well, unfortunately, you can join the crowd!

Maybe your resume writing or resume distribution is of low quality?

Many, many people are routinely performing job searches that seem to take forever and ever before anything meaningful opens up.  Some people feel the city they live in is not able to support the job search they are pursuing, so they are forced to look for work and employment outside of the place they call home.

If a job search is not a focused effort on something of meaning that a perosn is qualified to do, then that is self-inflicted failure. The problem is that low-quality job searches are what people know and it is what they do.

A large number of people surf www.CareerBuilder.com, www.Monster.com, and maybe www.HotJobs.com or www.Dice.com trying to find something of interest to them or maybe just something they feel skilled enough to do.  The problem is that people start “throwing” their resume at too many job postings in hope that SOMEONE will call them and offer them a job.

A job search needs to be specific and targeted at a specific expertise and maybe a particular industry.  If not, then the responses you get from your resume are going to be bad matches, which means a low-quality of leads that really don’t fit what values you can bring to a potential employer.

Pinpoint your areas of value that support your job search and then aggressively pursue that job goal.  Don’t settle for what you get in a job search, create what you want!