Focus is critical for many tasks and activities. Your job search is one of those activities where shifting your attention, zig-zagging and shifting your attention from one thing to another without full engagement not only does not net the fastest results it can be deadly to your career.
On the highway recently I was reminded just how deadly just a little shift in focus can be, when I shifted my focus to my directions, then a map and away from the traffic around me. I did avoid a mishap, yet those seconds of lost focus cost me hours and could have been deadly. Just as engagement is critical to driving, it is also critical to prevent the slow death of your career.
According to productivity experts it can take 4 to 15 minutes to recover and refocus depending on the complexity of the task and other variables such as your mindset, etc. That consistent recovery and refocus in time within your job search is inefficient and ineffective. It may also be the reason you miss or overlook the opportunity right in front of you.
The impact of lack of focus may be frustration, feeling lost or disappointed. Those emotions may then create other distractions.
There are three steps to providing CPR to your job search, gaining focus and avoiding the slow costly death of your career. Those steps are: 1) assess where you are and decide where you want to be, 2) plan how to get there and 3) execute the tasks, activities needed to get where you want to be.
Continued shifting of focus, zig-zagging, doing too much or diffusing attention during your job search may not just be costing you time, and causing stress, it could also be deadly to your career. Stale skills are viewed as less valuable in the market; time and stress take other tolls on your mindset and your body. Lack of focus has been the cause of death of more than one career; will it cause the death of yours?
Where are you today?
Where do you want to be next week and next year?
What are you willing to do to be more focused in your job search?
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