{"id":161,"date":"2010-02-23T05:51:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T10:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2010-02-21T16:57:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T21:57:36","slug":"are-you-too-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/are-you-too-serious\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you too serious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/are-you-too-serious\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>&#8220;Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.&#8221; ~ Elbert Hubbard<\/p>\n<p>Hubbard\u2019s words ring true for your job search too.\u00a0 Be careful that you don\u2019t take your job search to seriously or not seriously enough.\u00a0 Either end of the scale can be fatal to your career.<\/p>\n<p>I have worked with thousands of people engaged in a job search.\u00a0 Some are not serious enough about the \u201cjob search\u201d and others are so serious about the job search it consumes each minute of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Both of these paths will impact your success.\u00a0 If you are not serious enough you may lose focus, miss opportunities and often extend a search so long that the prolonged search causes damage to your finances, your career and earnings potential.\u00a0 Being too serious about a job search can also result in lack of focus, damage to your relationships, lack of balance and tons of effort in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have the right balance in your job search?<\/p>\n<p>What are you taking too seriously in your job search?<\/p>\n<p>What in your job search should be more serious?<\/p>\n<p>Is the job search you are conducting effective?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are not serious enough you may lose focus, miss opportunities and often extend a search so long that the prolonged search causes damage to your finances, your career and earnings potential.  Being too serious about a job search can also result in lack of focus, damage to your relationships, lack of balance and tons of effort in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9,10,6,4],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-search-focus","tag-accelerate-your-search","tag-job-search","tag-opportunity","tag-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}