hey ambitious professionals it's Linda
Rainer of Linda Rainer calm guiding you
to a career and life you'll truly enjoy
and in today's video I want to walk you
through five things that you can expect
when it comes to your job search
during this coronavirus situation I want
to be able to talk about what you can
expect and how that can help you to
eventually land the job offer that
you're looking for
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now as a career strategist I've had the
ability to help numerous ambitious
professionals land their dream job
offers and so if this is something that
you're interested in working with me one
on one I can give you more details about
that at the end of this video now I've
been getting a lot of questions from you
asking me about what you can expect when
it comes to looking for a job during
this coronavirus time and what you can
do to maximize and optimize your efforts
and whether it's worth even doing
anything at all so I want to be able to
give you some insight on that and give
you some real perspective on what you
can expect during this time of
uncertainty when it comes to looking for
a job and what you can do to optimize
your time I know that this is a very
unique situation that we're in and so I
understand that it can be very difficult
to really know how to navigate and how
to even go about your daily lives
without the certainty that this is going
to end any time soon so I really want to
give you some perspective and hopefully
these five key expectations will help
you frame your mind in a way where you
can be more productive more focused and
more confident in your job search
expectation number one is recruiting
efforts are likely on hold right now but
not everywhere so contrary to what you
might believe I've actually had several
individuals reach out to me in the most
recent days and weeks telling me that
they landed job offers successfully all
during this coronavirus situation now
when I hear that I do think for them
they were lucky in the sense that they
were going through interviews probably
right when coronavirus just started
let's say and that process continued and
then they were able to eventually get
their job offer so in a sense it's not
like they just started their job search
right now in the midst of the
coronavirus situation they started it a
little bit beforehand and were able to
still go through with the process so
what about you if you haven't yet landed
your job offer then what you can expect
is that for the most part
and this is just what we've seen so far
is that a lot of companies have put
their recruiting efforts on hold and
that's understandable because of the
situation that we're in so even if you
reach out to hiring managers and
recruiters just know that they likely
won't reach back out to you right away
as quickly as they would in a typical
environment so I know it sounds tough
and I know that it's frustrating to hear
that so what does that mean for you it
means that this is an opportunity for
you to just simply take a step back and
accept that things are going to move a
little bit more slowly so yes this
situation that you're in is going to
take time
lightly longer than you initially hoped
for but it does not mean that you should
just simply give up on your job search
because the truth is eventually this
will end we don't know when but it will
and so you want to be someone who at
that point in time when it does end and
when companies are back up in business
and they're looking to hire you want to
be someone who is ready to pounce on
that opportunity you want to be the
first person that they call you want to
be top of the list you want to be top of
mind for these recruiters and hiring
managers and how do you do that
there are several key things you want to
set up your LinkedIn profile to make
sure it's as attractive as possible you
want to make sure that you have a
compelling well-written CV or resume
that you're gonna be sending to these
hiring managers you want to make sure
that in the interviews you have your
compelling engaging responses to their
questions you want to be prepared so
that when these opportunities do come
that you're ready to jump on them and
that you're ready to go you don't want
to be wasting this precious time that
you have to prepare yourself now the
second thing that you can expect is that
hiring managers are still keeping their
eyes out for strong talent just because
hiring managers and recruiters aren't
hiring right now doesn't mean that
they're not going to hire eventually so
that means that
you still want to stay on their radar
and make sure that they remember who you
are and note that you're actively in the
market and looking and that you're a
good candidate for any potential
opportunities that will come up later
down the line it's not as though this
coronavirus has stopped people from
doing their jobs
recruiters still have to look for good
talent hiring managers still have to
keep their eyes open and eyes peeled for
any good potential job candidates so to
take advantage of this you want to be
someone who reaches out directly to
these hiring managers and recruiters
usually over LinkedIn or over email and
let them know that you're interested in
and what opportunities you'd be
interested in but of course only do this
if you have a compelling attractive CV
or resume to send over to them if you
don't have that yet do not reach out you
want to make sure that you have
something substantial to show them so
that they can be impressed and keep you
top of mind for when they're ready to
hire now I keep talking about having an
excellent resume or CV and if you need
help in that area feel free to click on
the link down below where you can go to
my free resume mastery workshop where
I'll teach you techniques on how to
write an attractive compelling resume
for those hiring managers and recruiters
expectation number three interviews will
most likely be done virtually because of
coronavirus I think this is something
that is going to stick with us in the
future we're hiring managers and
recruiters end up using and relying on
technology to do interviews more than
they have in the past so using Skype
zoom Google Hangouts or any other video
call platform to do your future
interviews is just something that you
can expect now I will be doing an
upcoming video that will talk about how
to look good and feel confident in video
calls during interviews or even just
during work meetings so stay tuned for
that but for now I do have some basic
tips that will hopefully help you to be
successful on video calls you want to
make sure that you have a good quality
camera or webcam set up on your laptop
you want to make sure that the angle is
that eye level to you not beneath you
not to high above you you want to make
sure that you have good lighting usually
a nice big open window in front of you
is the best type of lighting you want to
be mindful of your backdrop have a wall
behind you ideally and you know add a
few nice friendly features to it maybe a
piece of art or some plants or just
something to add a little bit of color
but to also make it look as though you
are in a working environment similar to
how you would look in your office so
those are some tips that I have relating
to video calls but I'll get into more
depth with that in a future video now
the next two things that you can expect
are a little bit different from just
what I've been talking about because
they have to specifically deal with you
expectation number four is that if
you're not aware of what you're
consuming and thinking on a daily basis
you will feel anxious stressed
frustrated and uncertain during this
time period so what I'm saying is if you
are completely consumed with the news
you're unaware of what thoughts are
going through your head you're not doing
a good job of taking care of yourself
you can expect that you're not going to
be very happy during this time and I'm
sure that's not what you want and that's
not what I want for you either when we
allow ourselves to be consumed by what's
going on in the news hearing the worst
case scenarios living in fear we end up
feeling hopeless and feeling that
there's nothing that we can do and
feeling completely trapped in our
situation but here's the solution you
can train your mind it's all about
training yourself and training your mind
and being disciplined in what it is that
you allow yourself to consume what it is
that you allow yourself to believe and
the thoughts that you decide to hold on
to if you live your everyday life
completely unaware unaware of what
you're really doing unaware of what
you're consuming unaware of what you're
thinking and you are noticing that
you're not feeling good on
day-to-day basis then you will likely
fall victim to depression to anxiety to
stress because you're not conscious and
aware of how you're living your life so
that is why you need to start
implementing practices now that you have
the time start implementing practices to
dig deeper within yourself become more
aware of what it is that you're allowing
into your energy field allowing yourself
to read allowing yourself to talk to
people about be more aware of what's
going on up here what's going on in here
how you're feeling every day and start
to separate the thoughts that aren't
helping you and essentially eliminating
them so that you can start to take care
of yourself better and you can start to
feel better about where you're at and be
more accepting of yourself in this
situation this is a tough time that
we're all in it is extremely stressful I
understand that but there is another way
to live you don't have to live in stress
and anxiety every single day that is a
choice that you make if you choose to go
down that path you can choose to be more
accepting of yourself you can choose to
be more aware of the thoughts and the
things that you listen to and the things
that you watch and see you have that
choice to live your life differently in
a more calm and peaceful way so if you
decide to make that choice to go down
that path then you won't fall victim to
the anxiety and depression as maybe
others will so just know that that is
something that you can expect to either
feel really bad or to feel quite good
and lastly the last thing that you can
expect during this coronavirus situation
is that this is a time to reflect on
what you really want as much as this may
feel like a curse it's actually a
special precious gift that you've been
given and that is the gift of time time
for you to be introspective time for you
to reflect on
your life up until this point your
career up until this point where do you
want to go when this is all over what
direction do you want to head into what
would your ideal career look like you
have this time to think about that to
analyse that to reflect on that and to
ask yourself some hard questions that
maybe up until this point
you didn't ask because you are simply on
that hamster wheel running on that
hamster wheel trying to just work and
come home and just live your everyday
life but now this is the time for you to
pause for you to reflect and for you to
ask yourself these questions so see it
as that as a precious gift of time and
this is an opportunity for you to be
able to move yourself in a more positive
direction so if you can expect that this
is a precious gift of time then
hopefully you'll be able to optimize it
and use it well so there you go those
are my five key expectations when it
comes to your job search during this
coronavirus situation I really hope that
you take each and every one of them into
account and hopefully that's helped to
frame your mind in a way where you'll
feel better as you move forward in this
time period now if you are someone who
is currently looking for a new position
and you've been struggling as I've
talked about throughout this video and
you realize that you want more
one-on-one professional guidance from
someone like me then feel free to reach
out head on over to my website Linda
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breathe through the page fill in the
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resources available to you to help you
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