Career Exploration and Career Stuff on the Internet: Feedback
Series of Blog posts on career stuff. Focus will be on career exploration and Internet job resources. My hope that you will find the information helpful in your career journey.
As with anything you read on the internet, please evaluate the information you read and use the specific information that is helpful to you.
I have found that when I obtain feedback on something, I can often improve doing that something
Feedback I am thinking about is the feedback where you give suggestions to another person on ideas to improve. The suggestions still allow the person to decide if they want to use the suggestion or not. Could be expressed like “Here are some suggestions to improve your resume” or “Here are some suggestions to improve your application” and so on.
When I searched for a job position, sometimes the only feedback I would obtain from a job search was a lot of rejections. I would not get any other type of feedback in a job search – like ways to improve a cover letter, ways to improve an application, ways to improve an interview.
The job search itself would provide no additional feedback except for rejections.
I have sometimes found it helpful to get feedback from other sources – Some of the other sources can be:
* Friends
* Family
* Career Coaches (or career counselors)
* Career experts at Workforce Development office
* Feedback from a job club (a job club a social club that helps people find job positions)
* Career expert from Career associations (a career association where members are focused on a particular profession)
* Talk to people in the profession you have a interest in going into
I have found getting feedback in my job search could improve my job search. So, if you are getting many rejections in your job search; if you are having difficulty creating an effective cover letter, application, interview – or some other aspect of the job search process – look at getting feedback.