If you want to know how you are doing with your job search, you need to look at the data. That means you will need to track the data. Are you keeping track of how your time is being spent and in which activities?
Using a version of Orville Pierson's productivity chart (Download Productivity chart) will help you track your job search efforts. He has a website too!
Not only will the analytical types be able to assess the numbers themselves, but the spontaneous will be able to better hold themselves accountable.
I dare you to try to track your efforts for a week...see what happens!
Hanna,
Thanks for posting a tool as well as pointing out the benefits of tracking one's efforts. This is a good business skill to master, whether it is looking for a job or tracking one's marketing efforts.
One of my networking friends just got a job after 18 months of being unemployed because he showed his potential employer his job searching plan. By treating his job search like a full time project, he impressed the hiring manager. The rest was history.
Be Your Best You Today,
Carolann Jacobs
President, Vivid Epiphany
Posted by: Carolann Jacobs | March 03, 2009 at 08:48 AM