Top Ten Job Seeker Mistakes – #4

Mistake #4 is: Do not get help when they really need a career coach for insights, reality check, and accountability.

Getting help from friends is great. Getting resume help, interviewing tips, and general job seeking ideas from volunteers and internet sources is wonderful.

Whether recognized or not, most of us need more. We need someone who has insights beyond the basics. We need someone who can tell us the blunt truth and be a reality check to the enormous amounts of misinformation and misunderstandings that we either get or have. We need someone who can hold us accountable to keep moving forward.

There are some free resources that can provide these benefits. The difficulty is finding them. In most cases, you should consider a career coach. The cost is usually paid back ten to a hundred times or more.

The question may be your priorities. Which is more important – a football game or career help? A vacation or career help? A new wardrobe or career help? You get the idea. Are your funds going to places that are giving you the return on your investment or simply going out the door?

The challenge is that most of us do not want to change our lifestyles or our investment portfolio so we continue life as it was hoping that we will get back to work before we run out of funds. If that happens, then we did not need a coach after all! If it does not happen, then we may run out of money to pay a coach. Either way, we did it our way! We are not here to take care of coaches!

That is why most people make mistake number 4.