Career Resilience

Nine strategies to persist during your job search

The career journey can be challenging and exhausting. Self-care is important. Centennial College suggests nine strategies for students to implement to help them persist during a job search:

1. When you start worrying about future events, bring yourself back to the present

2. Notice and name your feelings and thoughts

3. Find support systems—cheerleaders, communities and services

4. Focus attention on what you can control

5. Have a bias to action

6. Change your relationship to failure

7. Set small, manageable goals

8. Be flexible, adaptable and open-minded about opportunities

9. Look after yourself—it’s a long hike, not a sprint!

You can learn more about these strategies in this helpful resource (used with permission from Tracey Lloyd).

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Here are some additional resources to support mental health and wellness in the workplace:

• How is Your Work-Life Balance? (quiz)
• What’s Your Stress Level? (quiz)

The personal resilience section of this toolkit also provides some excellent resources to help you support your students’ mental health and wellness.

• What supports exist for students?Website
• Career Resilience ToolkitWebsite
• Getting hiredMultiple
• Identifying transferable skillsDocument
• The Career Resources QuestionnaireWebsite
• Navigating career turbulencePodcast
• Designing your lifeMultiple
• Nine strategies to persist during your job searchDocument
• “How Your Unique Story Can Get You Hired”Video
• Supporting students with disabilitiesDocument
• “What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection”Video
• Works citedWorks cited / Toolkit Post