What many job seekers don’t realize from jobmob
When I ask job seekers how long it’s been since their job search began, a typical reply is “too long.”
Yeah, I know what you mean.
Sometimes people will say “well, I just started looking…” but almost NO ONE ever says “for the position I’m looking for, in today’s market, in this city, it takes 4-6 months on the average to find a new job. I’ve been looking for 3 months, so it’s still early…”
After I resigned from my job at Amazon in the summer of 2001, I thought it would take 1 month to find a new job. And that was just after I’d moved back to Jerusalem and had no idea how much (lack of) demand there was for my skillset there at the time. I was so clueless. I thought employers would be impressed by my Amazon achievements and I’d have my pick of offers.
Really.
Why did I think it would only take me just 1 month? Because my previous job had taken about that long to find. Having been my first full-time career job, I didn’t know any better.
Now I know better… but that’s a topic for an upcoming article.
How did you estimate how long your current job search should take?
[POLL] How Long Have You Been Job Searching? [JobMob]
