{"id":137,"date":"2017-10-29T10:59:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T10:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icomputinglabs.in\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2017-10-29T10:59:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T10:59:40","slug":"control-anxiety-while-looking-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icomputinglabs.in\/blog\/control-anxiety-while-looking-job\/","title":{"rendered":"How to control your anxiety while looking for a job"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is perfectly fine to feel little anxious thinking about what future holds as it signifies you are striving for excellence. However, it is very important that we keep it in check as too much of anxiousness or nervousness \u00a0affects our performance too. The best way to do that is to learn about the things you can control and the things which we cannot. <\/span><\/p>\n

When looking for a job, we look for the best opportunity and expect to grab it. However, there are many other factors such as <\/span>what openings are out there, to who else is in the running, to whether your interviewer is having a bad day, decides whether we are getting the job or not. So, instead of worrying about things you can\u2019t control, channelise you time and energy to focus on the part which can be controlled.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Here is a guide to what is important.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. You can\u2019t control the openings available in a company.
    \n<\/b>Sometimes, the exact position you\u2019re looking for will open up at just the right time; and other times you feel like you\u2019ve been refreshing your profile in job portals \u00a0and checking back in with your contacts again (and again, and again) before you see anything that\u2019s a good fit. Unfortunately, you can\u2019t will a role into being available.
    \nBut, You can control your efforts.
    \n<\/b>What you can do is make sure that you\u2019re devoting enough time to your search to make the progress you want.<\/li>\n
  2. You can\u2019t control the job market.
    \n<\/b>There are times when in some specific sector, jobs are not available because of sluggish growth rate for e.g. Aviation Sector. So, all the people associated will have trouble finding job as they have skill set which are not in demand.
    \nBut, you can control how you react to it.
    \n<\/b>If your skills are transferable, you can investigate roles where you could use them in a new, growing sector.<\/li>\n
  3. \u00a0<\/span>You can\u2019t control the competition.
    \n<\/b>Sometimes your competition is just more qualified than you and you just have to accept that.
    \nBut , you can control your preparation and performance.
    \n<\/b>When you\u2019re going into an interview, you want to focus on how you can be as prepared as possible.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Management expert Jack Welch once said, “Control your destiny or someone else will.\u201d You get to steer your own destiny. While you don\u2019t have full control over \u00a0everything in your job search, you can uphold high expectations for yourself and your career. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It is perfectly fine to feel little anxious thinking about what future holds as it signifies you are striving for excellence. However, it is very important that we keep it in check as too much of anxiousness or nervousness \u00a0affects our performance too. The best way to do that is to learn about the things […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[25,11,4],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-job-interview","category-preparation","tag-confidence","tag-goal","tag-preparation","grid-item","grid-item-landscape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icomputinglabs.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icomputinglabs.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icomputinglabs.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icomputinglabs.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icomputinglabs.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icomputinglabs.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/www.icomputinglabs.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icomputinglabs.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icomputinglabs.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icomputinglabs.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icomputinglabs.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}