5 Advantages of Focusing On A Specific Type Of Position In A Job Search

1. Serious job hunting is time consuming. An unemployed job seeker should put 30 to 40 hours a week into the effort. Ironically, people who are unfocused may put considerable energy into their search and thus feel as though they are doing everything they can. But their energy is dissipated in too many directions to be productive.

2. The more contacts you establish in your search, the more likely you will be to uncover a desirable position. Your concentration of contacts is like the application of pressure -- the greater the pressure, the more likely it is that something will happen. This likelihood is decreased if the pressure is diffused over several fields of specialties.

3. Here is another irony of job searching. The unexpected opportunity pops up mast frequently for those whose full energies are marshaled in a specific direction. Job seekers who do not concentrate on an objective rarely make a significant enough impression on anyone to attract unexpected possibilities.

4. Productive job searching requires us to present ourselves convincingly to prospective employers. These employers tend to be unimpressed by statements such as, "I do not care that much what kind of job I do" and, "I am willing to do anything." If we present ourselves in our written and oral communications with persuasive conviction and commitment, we need to fit who we are and what we have to offer with a set of recognizable skills and abilities.

5. To look at it from the other side of this coin, it is hard to be enthusiastic and remarkably well qualified for 10 to 15 different kinds of jobs.