Fighting burnout in your job search? How to change things up

Applying for a new job can be a struggle for many as more companies report layoffs and employers put up "ghost job postings" online.

LinkedIn career expert Andrew McCaskill joins Wealth! to break down the top tips to help job seekers who are fighting burnout in their search.

"You got to take a little bit of control, start to take breaks. A lot of the things that we talk to people about during the pandemic are things that you should be doing now if you're feeling that burnout," McCaskill stresses. "And then take control of your day. Set an agenda, be intentional about your meetings. Really be prepared for those meetings so you feel like that you're happening to your day and your day isn't happening to you."

McCaskill emphasizes the highly competitive nature of the job market right now and that applicants need to showcase their skills to hiring managers, "especially in a role that may be in a different industry and really be explicit about how your skills will match up.

"And you may have skills that will transfer from one industry to the other, but you've got to make the case for that. You've got to be prepared to tell your story," McCaskill explains.

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This post was written by Nicholas Jacobino

Video transcript

It can be very frustrating to try and find a new job from writing endless cover letters to feeling like you're being ghosted by hiring managers or recruiters.

It can be easy to feel burned out by the entire process here to help out with some tips on how to get past those feelings and get you one step closer to your dream job is Andrew mccaskill.

We've got linkedin career expert here with us back on the program.

Andrew.

Great to see you here.

Now, there can be burnout on, on both sides of this, both looking for a job.

You can have burnout in your existing job.

How and, and what are the ways to really identify or acknowledge what burnout looks like and how you can get on the other side of that as well.

Yeah, I mean, listen, the job market is competitive and opportunities are becoming so much harder to find and active job seekers are really feeling it when we took a look at workers' confidence in their careers, that confidence in their career and their career progression dropped to a new low.

Um This summer and professionals are feeling it, it shows up and feeling like their confidence is down, they feel stuck, many of them feel burnt out and, and my advice for folks, if you're feeling burnt out in your current job, right?

Is one you got to take a little bit of control, start to take breaks.

A lot of the things that we talk to people about during the pandemic are things that you should be doing.

Now, if you're feeling that burnout and then take control, take control of your day, set an agenda, be attention about your meetings, really be prepared for those meetings.

So you feel like that you're happening to your day and your date isn't happening to you.

Finally, if you're feeling burnt out right now, holler, if it hurts, start to talk to your manager about how you can sort of Reprioritize work and maybe think about a stretch assignment if that will sort of shake up your day or to get your manager to help you Reprioritize things.

Here's the deal though.

Don't go to your manager with just a problem.

Go to them with some possible solutions too.

And then you have a better conversation, say you're trying to navigate and really put forth a career pivot as well.

How can you effectively pull that off knowing that that's taking you from one skill set or, or job function into another?

And, and how can you kind of Daisy chain that e especially knowing that some people can't or don't leave a job until they have that next one lined up.

Yeah, I mean, we talked to hiring managers to see why so many of these job seekers and job candidates were feeling like they were getting ghosted or feeling like they weren't getting calls back.

And so hiring managers said the number one reason why they were not interviewing candidates is because their skills did not match up.

They didn't have the right skills for the role.

And so for people, you're looking for a job right now, it's a highly competitive market.

You've got to showcase your skills, especially in a role that may be in a different industry and really be explicit about how your skills will match up and you may have skills that will transfer from one industry to the other.

But you've got to make the case for that.

You've got to be prepared to tell your story.

Your job is to say is to look at that job description and for everything that's on there to go back to your experience and say, ah, here's how I would match up the skills that I have to do a good job here for this.

All right.

So you do get the interview.

What are the tips to nail the interview here?

Andrew.

Here's the deal.

The other thing that the hiring manager said to us is that the number two reason why people were not getting calls back is that they weren't being responsive.

You've got to be responsive.

You've got to respond back to that to that recruiter or that hiring manager and proofread everything the details matter.

Now, more than ever, you've got to respond in, in about 24 hours.

If you get a call back from a recruiter or, or hiring manager, proofread everything the details really matter.

And here's the other thing that may be a little controversial, but you've got to review your online and social media presence as well.

Just to be sure that you're putting your best foot forward, you can absolutely be authentic in your public online life.

But you need to also understand that you are in a competitive job market.

So how you show up on the internet needs to also be professional.