So, like a lot of people, currently on the market right now looking for a gig as my role was eliminated. However, state of the world and industry are both so shaky that sending out resumes seems rather pointless while majority of agencies appear rather frozen, at least out West. Considering slowing search down for a month or so to maintain sanity. Anyone feel the same?

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What I find helps more than resumes are personal connections. Use this time to personally email people who can hire you at agencies you want to work at. Introduce yourself. Talk a little bit about your experience and what you want to do and the kind of work you like. And don’t ask anything of them just say you wanted to connect. And then in the fourth quarter or whenever hiring picks up again you will have something to build on

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Here is were one might think “shit I really should’ve networked more, be more client facing, injected myself more, etc” all these roles in the offices at the agencies make it much harder if your circle of contacts do go beyond the break room. Meet people, build relationships, be genuine, learn how to negotiate and engage and interact. When things get back to normal, and they will, get out there. Call an old client, past worker, etc... you never know. It’s a contact game. Good luck to all that are searching ..

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Same.
No need to stress until the pandemic subsides and the economy comes back.

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so many great thoughts here.

two more things:

1. IF you are collecting unemployment, keep a spreadsheet or journal of all the networking you are doing and document do some job searches each day even if it is 15 -30 minutes on linkedin and your state’s job board. the search may also trigger ideas for where your skills are transferable

2. think about if and how you can make your own work. do you like to write and had a fantastic about writing a book? do it.

3. volunteer. the world and our communities need help in so many ways, and you never know who you might meet along the way and it will feel great. live on the coast and like the ocean, get some people
to do a socially distant beach clean up. care about the election? make some calls for a candidate or to engage voter turnout. volunteer with CORE for COVID testing.
whatever you love, do something related through an organization you know or find.

take care and good luck.

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Same. I’m a freelancer but I’m not going to even look for gigs until things seem to turn around a bit.

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It will comeback. And like an f’ing avalanche. Make your connects now. Be cool. Make friends. Make connections. If you can correspond and get a review of your website, you have nothing to lose. Set up for the future! 😀

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One more thing to add — write stuff and post it on LinkedIn. This is a great time to write about our industry, opinions pieces, updates and learnings from your career search. Content is king (as we know) and it has the added benefit of getting your name in front of all your contacts regularly. Including recruiters.

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