Some of the advice I gave people centred around being pro-active about finding work. But that's a lot harder in reality than I made it sound, especially when you call recruitment consultants to check they've got your applications and they talk to you as though you're asking them what the average temperature is in Siberia during June. Being pro-active is hard because a LOT of other people aren't geared to receive your pro-activity. They don't quite know what to do with it. Recruitment has become faceless; if you attempt to put a voice or a genuine personality to your e-mailed applications it seems to throw people a bit. It's not what they're trained to deal with. I miss the days before e-mail when I applied for jobs by post, then called to follow them up and nine times out of ten I'd have a friendly chat with the person doing the recruiting. Quite a few times I'd even get the job just on the back of chats like that, but regardless of whether I did or not, the process just felt a lot nicer.
And I do need "chatting" practice really, for the interviews. Which I bloody well need to be good at, seeing as my CV goes on about how I "trained people for job interviews!" Get me, eh? So right from the off people on the other side of the desk will be expecting my own technique to be faultless (to be expected; if it was me interviewing someone who said they "trained people for job interviews!" I would expect nothing less than perfection from them...I'm annoying like that, as are most people who interview for a living).
So the pressure is firmly switched to "ON". And it's quite a Good Thing I thrive on it all, really, or I'd be buggered.
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