TIME MANAGEMENT HINTS
May 22nd, 2007
1. Spend 15 minutes every night to visualize the coming day in order to anticipate, organize and prioritize events.
2. Try to utilize good work habits. Start your activities each day on time and work on your job search all day.
3. Use a daily planning system and enter everything you do into this one source in order to stay organized and consistent.
4. Take time to focus between events in order to separate your activities.
5. Always keep a short list which can be immediately employed if your other priorities run into unexpected problems.
6. Keep very accurate files and information.
7. At the end of every day, take a few minutes to throw useless paper away. This will help keep you organized.
8. Stay loyal to your weekly goals and review them at the end of each week in order to remain on course with your job search.
9. Help your family realize that you need their support in this job search process. You need to ask them to respect the time you need
devote to finding your new opportunity. Make sure they understand that your job search is currently your “job.”
10. Be cognizant that you have to control each day as much as possible in order to achieve your goal of obtaining the right opportunity as
quickly as possible.
11. When you must engage in other tasks over which you have control, try to do them outside of the time that you have committed to your
search activities.
12. Realize that from time to time events over which you have no control will occur, you need to develop ways to negate their impact on
your productive work time.
*Remember, if you control your time, you control your outcome and will ultimately reach your goals quicker and easier! Time Management is crucial to a successful job search!
Nancy J. Phillips, CPC
