Are you trying too hard?

By: Lori McMullin, APR, Director of Business Operations & Communications

Center for Business Excellence

So, you’ve been doing everything right to try to land a job. You’ve revamped your résumé, attended various job search workshops, networked all over town and assessed your skills to learn how to transfer what you’ve done in the past to a new career.

You also have set up the Virtual Recruiter tool in your Employ Florida Marketplace account as an additional extension of your thorough job search. The bases are covered.

On paper and, maybe, during a telephone interview, you receive positive vibes from potential employers. Yet, when you interview in person, it has yet to yield a job offer.

Maybe, you are putting so much pressure on yourself (completely understandable), you are sabotaging yourself. Maybe, just maybe, you are trying too hard.

At some point in our lives, most of us have done this. Here is an interesting link on the subject. I hope it proves helpful:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-cara-barker/are-you-trying-too-hard_b_464477.html