How can we learn to deal with rejection better? To begin, rejection is not necessarily a thing to be ‘dealt with’. When you’re starting out in your search for a new job or reentry into your former career, rejection can help you figure out if you’re heading in the wrong direction or spreading your search too wide.
Then, when your search is in full swing and you start to receive feedback from prospective employers, develop a rejection strategy! Listen to my latest podcast tutorial for the four key steps you’ll need in order to to transform rejection into a valuable part of your job search cycle.
At any stage of the process, from those first online forays to the final round interviews, keep an open mind. If you know how to deal with it a rejection may even open more doors that it closes…