Sense Of Urgency

Do you have a sense of urgency with your job search and in your career in general?

Timing is everything and this certainly applies when searching for a job.

Sitting back and waiting for a job to land in your lap is not going to happen.

You can't afford to wait for things to happen because chances are that once you start applying for jobs, you'll be waiting for the company to respond.

When you are waiting for a response from a company, you are at their mercy because they are working on their schedule at that point.

I've seen cases where a hiring company I'm working with comes to me looking to hire someone and tells me that they are desperate to find this person and they'd like to hire them as soon as possible. I find them several great candidates that I send them...

...then they tell me that the hiring manager has gone on holiday for two weeks and they can't do anything until that person returns.

Unless the company is truly desperate to hire someone - perhaps in the case where the person who previously held the job quit suddenly or was fired - you are probably going to work off of their schedule so you might be waiting around as it is so having a sense of urgency early in your job search is the best way to go.

In other words, you will be waiting for other people to act and sometimes you can do nothing about it. But you can keep busy and try to open more doors to increase the chances that you get what you want faster.

Treat your job search with a sense of urgency.

Also, don't confuse urgency with desperation.