ambitious professionals it's Linda
Rayner of Linda Rayner calm guiding you
to a career in life you'll truly enjoy
and in today's video I'm going to give
you five key reasons why you may still
not be landing your job offer even
though you know that you can do the job
really well but for some reason that's
not being translated to the employers so
we're gonna go through them one by one
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now as a career strategist I've been
able to help numerous professionals land
their dream job offers in companies and
careers that offer them long-term growth
potential and this is something that I
would love to help you with as well
so if you're interested in working with
me 101 then I will give you details
about that at the end of the video so
you are a motivated hard-working
experienced ambitious professional and
you've been looking for a new position
for a little while now you've applied to
dozens of applications and you might
have even gone on a few interviews but
you still haven't landed a job offer now
it's not that you don't have the
technical qualifications skills
experience and abilities to do the job
you have all of those things but because
it's been a while now that you still
haven't landed a job offer you're
starting to think that perhaps there's
something else going on that is stopping
you from getting the jobs that you want
so here are five reasons as to why you
still may not be landing a job offer and
what you can do to fix that now mind you
these reasons that I have laid out for
you are ones that I truly believe are
going to help you but you need to be
completely honest with yourself they're
not the typical reasons that you'll find
elsewhere and so if you can be honest
with yourself then you can clearly
understand your own situation where
you're at and only then can you improve
and increase your chances of getting the
job that you want reason number one
looking for a job has become a chore no
longer an exciting endeavor for you when
you first started your job search you
were probably super optimistic you
thought I have a good background I have
good qualifications it shouldn't take me
too long to find a job but now that it's
been several months or longer it might
be over a year at this point you're
starting to feel a decline in your
confidence in your optimism levels
you're not feeling great and anytime
that you see a job that you want to
apply to you think to yourself what's
the point I'm probably not going to get
an interview anyway if this is how
you're feeling right now
you really need to truthfully ask
yourself if this is going to help you
because you have to think if you're
going to approach your job search with
this sense of low level negativity
this energy this tiresome energy how do
you think employers are going to respond
if they actually did call you for an
interview and you walked into the
interview room guess what's gonna happen
you're gonna go into the interview room
feeling not confident you're not gonna
be able to show your enthusiasm you're
not gonna have that energy that you had
in in yourself you have that belief in
yourself from before because you're
probably going to keep second-guessing
yourself as you go through this so you
really need to reflect on this and ask
yourself am i finding it to be a chore
if it is a chore right now you need to
stop stop the process of looking for a
job at least just for a week just give
it a break just for a week and get
yourself back into alignment you need to
re-energize yourself you need to get
connected with yourself because the
purpose of you finding a new position is
because you're ready for a change you're
ready to make a difference in your
career for yourself you're ready to make
a move you're ready to take on a new
challenge now if you're gonna take on a
new challenge in a negative mindset with
a negative mindset that new challenge is
probably gonna not be a great one for
you if you end up getting the job you're
probably gonna continue with that energy
level throughout that whole process and
into the job and then guess what you
might not excel in that position so you
can't rely on external things to
determine how you feel about yourself
you need to first feel good about who
you are the value that you bring to any
employer make sure that you instill that
within yourself and then get back into
the job search game with a new clear
mindset potential reason number two you
place all your hope in the next job
interview you get called for and feel
disappointed when it doesn't work out so
comment below actually if this is what's
happening for you
where now anytime you get a job
interview you go into it thinking is
this the one is this the job will I get
a job offer out of this and you go into
it with that almost desperate energy in
front of the employer and they can feel
that from you trust me
instead it needs to feel like this is a
game this is an exciting game for you
where okay I'm getting called in here
I'm getting called in there I'm gonna go
in and I'm gonna try to make a strong
connection with the hiring manager
because I know the
process of connecting with the hiring
manager answering their questions well
being able to showcase my value that is
what's going to lead to a positive
result but if all I'm thinking about is
the outcome when I'm in the interview
I'm not focused on anything else I'm not
focused on making a connection I'm just
focused on the outcome and I'm wondering
if that question that they just asked me
is going to determine my outcome and and
you know when you can always tell like
truthfully as a recruiter a previous
recruiter and even now as a career
strategist when I'm working with with
clients who are very high-strung who are
high who gets stressed out really easily
you can hear it in their voice you can
see it in their face you can feel the
tension and when they walk into an
interview room the employers can feel
that to whether or not they consciously
recognize it they can sense it and this
is the thing that you have to really be
aware of is that you can't go into every
job interview with all your eggs in the
basket thinking this is the one for me
so you need to shift gears and focus on
how can I make the connection with the
hiring manager how can I showcase my
value how can I feel comfortable in the
room with them in the interview and from
there you know wait for what the outcome
could be it may be the right opportunity
for you it may not be but at least you
won't have that sense of attachment and
disappointment
that comes if you didn't get the job do
all the upfront work that you need to do
to be as prepared and connected as
possible when you're in there and then
after that once you walk out of the room
you disattached you disconnect and you
wait for the results to come to you
reason number three you feel very simply
that you're not good enough whether
you're just applying for the job online
or you get a call from the interviewers
or you're actually sitting in the
interview room inside of you there is
this voice of self-doubt even though
logically you know that you have the
qualifications the experience the
technical abilities to do the job
you are still swimming in your own
uncertainty so even though you might be
a good fit on paper because of the way
that you are energetically presenting
yourself in front of them they're not
going to be convinced that you're the
one so what do you do to change that how
do you reverse the self-doubt well one
thing that
can start doing is to first identify
your strengths what are the things that
you've been able to do in your previous
roles that you just know for a fact that
you can repeat in these organizations
that you want to apply to what is a way
that you can demonstrate that to them
how are the stories going to be told
when you walk into that room start
envisioning yourself differently from
how you've been seeing yourself you've
probably been looking at yourself as
someone who just you know you can do it
but you can't at the same time you need
to have a bit more certainty of who you
are the value that you bring because you
have to realize that at the end of the
day looking for a job there is gonna be
competition there gonna be other people
that are up against you and may they may
have self-doubt as well but if they know
how to sell themselves they know their
value they know their worth then they're
going to likely beat you in the game and
so you really need to hone in on that
ask yourself what are my strengths what
are my achievements what are my
abilities truthfully and then from there
be able to demonstrate that to the
employers potential reason number four
is that you are not expressing
professional presence so now that it's
been a while that you've been looking
for a job and you're stuck in their
current job you know you probably have
started the process of looking at others
who are more successful than you which
is always not a good thing to do because
you're comparing yourself to them but
you compare yourself and you say why is
it that they have this sense of
professional presence this confidence
within them that is just exuding from
within them that I don't feel within
myself true confidence comes from
knowing your own value knowing your
worth and believing in your own value
and worth so when it comes to a job
search you're gonna go into the
interview knowing that you have value to
offer you have abilities skill sets and
qualifications that you can contribute
for their organization and instead of
going to the interview thinking I hope
they pick me in a desperate I'm less
than kind of tone you're gonna go into
the interview saying I'm going to
showcase my value I'm going to showcase
my worth I'm going to demonstrate how I
can contribute for them and the right
employer will connect with that and
they'll be the ones to hire
reason number five is that you are
feeling desperate rather than excited
based on my experience I have seen some
people land job offers and they end up
being fairly unhappy pretty quickly
after they land the job offer because
they're just not happy with the job and
the reason why they're not happy with
the job part of it was because they
settled for that job and why did they
settle for that job because they felt
desperate they felt that there was
nothing else out there for them that
this was the best they could get and
once they got the job they realized this
isn't the best I don't enjoy it and they
feel stuck but we know that's not gonna
happen to you right because you're a
motivated ambitious driven professional
and you know that you're gonna land the
right position for you as long as you
implement the right strategies and
approach now aside from the very
tactical strategies of finding a job the
right career for you there's another
approach that I want to teach you that I
call calling in what you want this is a
fun activity that you can do with
anything in your life but if the job is
what you're wanting the most right now
then definitely try to implement it so
calling it what you want basically means
that you need to have a fairly clear
vision and a fairly clear understanding
of how it would feel for you to be in a
position in a career that you're gonna
absolutely love in a job that you're
absolutely going to love you have to
know what that's gonna feel like even if
you don't know what the Job Description
looks like necessarily yet
you can imagine sort of what you would
be doing on a day to day you can imagine
how you're gonna feel and you can
believe that that is actually out there
for you
so because you're starting to stir up
all these emotions and this vision for
yourself it starts the process of you
being able to call in what you want
because over time you're going to be
more attracted to opportunities that
somehow line up with what it is that you
already believe is available for you and
that's how people end up getting
opportunities that are right for them
they don't just sit around and wait
willy nilly for the right opportunity to
come up and hopefully when the job
opportunity shows up they're gonna say
wow yes this is what I want that's how a
lot of people approach their job
search and I can tell you it doesn't
work that way you need to call it in
first and then once you've called it in
then you go out there and you start the
search because you're gonna have a clear
idea of what you're looking for of how
it's going to come about in terms of
your approach
you know how consistent you're gonna be
instead of just waiting nilly willy
nilly like I said you know you don't
want to rely on chance you don't want to
rely on just the hope and pray method
that something's gonna come up for you
you want to take that action and calling
it in is one of the very first things
you want to do so there you have it my
five reasons as to why you still haven't
landed a job and how you can fix that
now if you're someone who is exactly in
this situation you've been struggling
with finding the next opportunity for
you you really just want a job that's
going to give you long-term growth and
career growth because your current
company does not offer that growth and
you're not happy with the job that
you're in but you're just not sure on
how to sell yourself then feel free to
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