Hey Ambitious Professionals! It's Linda Raynier of lindaraynier.com guiding you
to a career and life you'll truly enjoy. And in today's video I'm going to teach
you my five tips on how to deal with rejection especially if you've been
rejected from being offered a job opportunity or promotion and what you
can take from this experience to help your career moving forward
as a career strategist I've had the honour of being able to help numerous
professionals land their dream job offers and if this is something that
you're interested in learning how to stand out and get hired directly from me
then I will give you details about that at the end of this video I've had quite
a number of people reach out to me recently and asked me this very question
of Linda how do I overcome that feeling of rejection especially since that job
offer that I wanted was my dream job offer it was my dream job company how do
I overcome this feeling and how do I pick myself up so that I can do better
next time well I really want to tell you that the
whole thing with this feeling of rejection that you're experiencing is
that it really is just a feeling it's an energy and it's something that you have
to work through and be able to gain knowledge from in order to be resilient
and move forward with your next opportunity and land the right job offer
that's right for you so today I'm going to share with you my five tips on what
you can do to help you to overcome this feeling of rejection so that you can
move forward in a more positive way tip number one to overcome the feeling of
rejection cry or mope it out let yourself feel and Express the pain of
not being selected it's okay to feel hurt and disappointed in order to become
more resilient we need to be able to accept our emotions whatever emotions
they are fully and give them the time and space that they need to express
themselves within our system so that they can clear our system and what
happens is you'll be able to clear these emotions this emotion of feeling hurt
and feeling disappointed fairly quickly when you fully accept it rather than
trying to suppress it down and that'll help you to be more resilient for the
next opportunity tip number two be honest with yourself
I could easily sit here and say don't take it personally the reason why they
didn't offer you that job wasn't because of you but what if it was now I'm not
saying that the reason why you didn't get the job had everything to do with
you but you really want to clarify if it had something to do with you or if it
had something to do with reason that was completely out of your control when it
comes to your career you have to be able to see
the whole perspective from a very objective level and understand whether
you truly deserve that promotion or job offer that you wanted so ask yourself
what are the possible objective reasons for why I wasn't selected it might be
that maybe you performed really well in the interview but you lacked a certain
type of technical experience that was needed for the position or it wasn't
about your experience at all and it was more about your interview skills and
that you weren't able to communicate and articulate your stories to the
interviewer in a convincing and persuasive way once you figure out these
reasons for why you are potentially not selected you then need to start coming
up with a plan of action on how you can improve yourself for the next time tip
number three seek help if this has become a pattern if you keep figuring
that the reason why you've not been selected for a position for a job offer
job opportunity is because maybe your resume isn't strong enough or maybe
because your interview skills aren't strong enough then you really need to
seek help you can't tell yourself oh I'll just
work on it and hopefully be better next time but not really work on it you
really need to identify the weaknesses if you've seen that this has become a
pattern and actually work on it so that you can improve and advance your career
further so seek out all the different options for you that are available to
find help that will help you to get the opportunities that you're looking for
whether it's working on your own and trying to figure it out on your own or
seeking the help of a career coach like myself tip number four acknowledge what
you are good at it's easy to think that you stink and that you aren't worthy of
a job opportunity just because they didn't offer it to you but what you
still have to remember is this they invited you for the interview for a
reason now if they didn't invite you for an interview then that says something
about the way that you've displayed yourself on the resume but if they did
invite you for the interview then you have to remember they invited me for a
reason they see something within me that is worthy of their time and
consideration so that means that you have qualities that they're looking for
and so you have to remind yourself what are the qualities that I have that are
my strengths what are the good qualities that I have that I know will set myself
apart from the rest of the crowd you have to remind yourself of what these
strengths and qualities are and that will help you in the next time that you
go for an interview and finally tip number five know that there is the right
opportunity for you out there and this just simply wasn't the one part of
navigating a career successfully is to actually allow it to flow in the
direction that it's meant to go without stress and strain what you have to
remember is inside of you you've been telling yourself that you want to make a
career change and so you've been given that internal nudge that you're ready
that it's the right time and so you have to remember that you are ready for a
change which means that there is an opportunity out there for you that
matches what you're ready to get into if the desire is there then change is going
to come about as long as you don't stop yourself or block yourself with your own
frustration and feelings of low confidence the only thing that you have
to remember is that if it wasn't yours it wasn't meant to be and to have the
faith that there is something better for you out there so there you have it my
five tips on how to deal with rejection especially if you didn't get a job offer
or promotion now if you're someone who is exactly in this boat and you have
been looking for a while you've been going on interviews you've been rejected
from job offers and you realize that you're ready for one on one professional
guidance from me then feel free to reach out to me head on over to my website
lindaraynier.com/standoutgethired read through the page fill out the
application form and a team member of mine will reach out to you if we feel
that you're a match to work with me and we'll reach out to you directly if you
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