Benjamin Todd

You may have to do most of it alone.

It can make online dating look easy.

This means that you'll need to throw every motivational technique you know at the job hunt.

Here are some tips.

1.

Perhaps the most useful single tip our readers have found is pairing up with someone else who's also job hunting.

Check in on progress and share tips and leads.

Alternatively, find someone who was recently successful at a similar hunt and is willing to meet up and give you tips.

2.

Set a really specific goal, like speaking to five people each week until you have an offer.

Publicly commit to the goal and promise to make a forfeit if you miss it.

Three, make it easier to face rejections.

Maybe make yourself a loyalty card that you stamp every time you get a rejection and reward yourself with an ice cream once the card is filled up.

Four, treat it like a job.

You're most likely going to be doing the job for years at 40 hours per week, so it makes sense it might take 5% or more of that time to secure the position, and it's already one to two months of full-time work.

The more time you can put into it, the better the results are probably going to be.

If you're not in a job right now, treating your job search as a job itself can help a lot with motivation.

Turn up at 9am and work till 5pm.

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Apply other tips on how to motivate yourself.