{"id":171355,"date":"2017-08-11T07:48:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T07:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/?p=171355"},"modified":"2017-08-11T07:48:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T07:48:20","slug":"you-have-a-job-even-when-you-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/you-have-a-job-even-when-you-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"You have a job, even when you don&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a job is not easy. It&#8217;s something many people struggle with, often for extended periods of time. It&#8217;s not only physically exhausting, but it&#8217;s also mentally and emotionally draining.<\/p>\n<p>Unemployed people spend hours a day looking a job, but most times it&#8217;s done when they feel like it, or when it&#8217;s convenient. This is the first mistake when seeking employment.<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re looking for work, you have a job: You job is to find a job. You should work a full day, every single day, just as you would in a regular job.<\/p>\n<p>Your time should not be confined to sending our CVs randomly, although that should be part of your daily routine. Consider having a daily schedule of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creatively improving your CV<\/li>\n<li>Sending out your CV to prospective employees<\/li>\n<li>Following up on leads<\/li>\n<li>Registering on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/jobseeker\/createcv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joblife<\/a> (of course!)<\/li>\n<li>Studying the market and industry<\/li>\n<li>Designing a career map<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your future is dependent on how much work you put into it. It&#8217;s up to you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a job is not easy. It&#8217;s something many people struggle with, often for extended periods of time. It&#8217;s not only physically exhausting, but it&#8217;s also mentally and emotionally draining. Unemployed people spend hours a day looking a job, but most times it&#8217;s done when they feel like it, or when it&#8217;s convenient. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":171356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171357,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171355\/revisions\/171357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}