The tiger is the hunter.not the hunted, at least in this post! So what is the difference between the person described here and a Job Hunter? The Job Hunter There are so many factors why this happens, we could chat for a couple of hours and still only scratch the surface. I am not saying there is something wrong with this mind set, there is more to life than work after all, finding a realistic ‘work/life balance’ can be very liberating. The Job Seeker can become easily disillusioned, he or she may have applied for a number of roles, even having attended an interview or two, perhaps not getting the results they would prefer, and can very easily conclude that ‘there are no jobs out there’, ‘this is a waste of time’….’better the devil you know’.Ī Job Seeker can quickly move into the ‘I might as well stay where I am and count my blessings’ phase. I have seen vague Linkedin headlines that suggest that the profile owner is ‘seeking new opportunities’ or ‘on the look-out for my next challenge’, which, on the face of it is giving the right message…but it is all just a tad non-committal, a little too casual. It could be more serious than that, it could be a person under threat of redundancy, or in the worst case, a person stood on the steps of their former place of employment, holding a box of personal knick-knacks that used to adorn their workspace.Īctually, there is a step further than that, but I am not here to terrify you! Very often, ‘Job Seeker’ is a label rather than a state of mind, it describes someone who is not particularly happy with their job, or the way things are going at work and envision the need for a change at some point in the future…you know…when the right opportunity crops up. In actual fact….there is a huge difference between the two, and that difference is connected to the mind-set of the seeker / hunter in question. Surely this is just semantics…job seeker | job hunter, tomato | tomahto? The term ‘Job Seeker’ has been part of my daily vocabulary for….*covers mouth*….years, suffice it to say, I have seen more than one or two recessions come and go, and have seen a complete evolution of the job seeking / recruitment process and everything in between, this I say merely to establish my credentials that qualify myself to offer some advice. Share on: The Job Seeker vs The Job Hunter
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