{"id":44,"date":"2012-03-20T14:24:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T19:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jeanbaur.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2012-03-21T15:47:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T20:47:36","slug":"why-the-thing-youve-been-avoiding-may-be-the-most-productive-step-you-can-take-for-your-job-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Why the Thing You&#8217;ve Been Avoiding May Be The Most Productive Step You Can Take for Your Job Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font: inherit; margin: 0px;\" valign=\"top\">That&#8217;s a long title, but the concept is important and I often ask my clients, &#8220;What have you been avoiding?&#8221; or &#8220;If you could only do one thing today to move your search forward, what would it be?&#8221; Having asked this I&#8217;ve learned that most of do what&#8217;s easiest, not necessarily the smartest\u00a0thing to do in our job searches.A quick trick to get around this obstacle: write down that one thing that you must do as your number one agenda item for tomorrow. Place it on your calendar or notebook or whatever devise you use so that you can&#8217;t miss it when you sit down to work on your search. Resist the temptation to do something else. Don&#8217;t clean your desk or empty the refrigerator. Get that one thing done. Period.What\u00a0 you may discover is that you feel really good for having pushed through your resistance and that\u00a0you&#8217;re now ready to tackle some other challenges. This is a critical part of what I like to call &#8220;searching smart.&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s a long title, but the concept is important and I often ask my clients, &#8220;What have you been avoiding?&#8221; or &#8220;If you could only do&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,1],"tags":[39,17,48,6,40,10],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jean","category-job-search","category-uncategorized","tag-challenges","tag-employment","tag-job-search","tag-job-seeker","tag-searching-smart","tag-unemployed"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2j73q-I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}