Home› Health & Wellbeing
If you need urgent support, call 999 or go to your nearest A&E. For Crisis Support (open 24/7) text THEMIX to 85258.
Read the community guidelines before posting ✨
Please help us out!

We have our annual survey out, asking a few questions about you, your needs and preferences, and the impact of our services. It should take around 5-8 minutes and by completing it, you will be entered for a chance to win a £200 Love2Shop voucher (in line with our privacy policy)

Click here to fill out our survey.

Struggling but Still Trying to Stay Motivated in My Job Search

RedemptionRedemption Community Connector Posts: 6,778 Master Poster
in Health & Wellbeing
My family are going at me again saying the usual things that I’ll stay jobless all my life and that I’ve never had a job, which is really hurtful. It gets pretty demotivating at times and sometimes makes me not want to apply, but I’m still going to my course and learning things. I apply for jobs some days and some days I don’t, but I still do it often. I’ve been trying for so long but still haven’t got anywhere. They advised me at my course to tailor my CV to specific jobs and to put the job ad into ChatGPT to find key words, since employers use an ATS system that looks for certain words in CVs. The course is going okay overall and they’ve told me to keep doing tailored CVs. The guy I mentioned before, the one whose job I unfortunately and regrettably declined, is still trying to find other jobs but hasn’t found anything yet. I keep worrying about time passing and still being out of work as months keep going by and I’m still unemployed. I can do early mornings though as I find them easier since I like starting and finishing early.

Comments

  • NathanNathan Community Connector Posts: 3,145 Boards Guru
    Redemption wrote: »
    My family are going at me again saying the usual things that I’ll stay jobless all my life and that I’ve never had a job, which is really hurtful. It gets pretty demotivating at times and sometimes makes me not want to apply, but I’m still going to my course and learning things. I apply for jobs some days and some days I don’t, but I still do it often. I’ve been trying for so long but still haven’t got anywhere. They advised me at my course to tailor my CV to specific jobs and to put the job ad into ChatGPT to find key words, since employers use an ATS system that looks for certain words in CVs. The course is going okay overall and they’ve told me to keep doing tailored CVs. The guy I mentioned before, the one whose job I unfortunately and regrettably declined, is still trying to find other jobs but hasn’t found anything yet. I keep worrying about time passing and still being out of work as months keep going by and I’m still unemployed. I can do early mornings though as I find them easier since I like starting and finishing early.

    @Redemption it takes a certain amount of strength to still be pushing forward, still trying and still advancing in the face of all that demotivating and demoralising insults from your family. It really does, so first of all, well done. You're an incredibly strong person redemption. Be proud of that.

    It's normal to feel hurt and crushed by those sorts of nasty words. Like i've said before, they don't recognise all the effort and hard work your putting in. But it is there, and it's what's going to get you your breakthrough mate.

    Putting your CV through AI tools is a very good idea. Key words, key phrases, they all are critical. So that is smart thinking. Stick on your course, and keep making progress that way, and keep building the CV. It's true that you did miss that one job opportunity, but others will come up bro. it's normal to be scared of time passing, but a job opening will come your way eventually.

    Don't give up bro, keep fighting on and when you do get that breakthrough, you can shove it in their faces.
  • sinead276sinead276 Posts: 2,344 Boards Champion
    I know how hard it can be when you have people in your ear saying negative things towards you. But the fact that no matter what you keep going and keep trying just shows how determined and committed you are to the process. Like the course said, using things like ChatGPT can be useful, helping you figure out how you can word your skills to best fit criteria and things like that - boosting your chances of getting that breakthrough you deserve.

    Keep going with it all - you've got this!!!
  • RedemptionRedemption Community Connector Posts: 6,778 Master Poster
    DonnerKebab wrote: »
    Redemption wrote: »
    My family are going at me again saying the usual things that I’ll stay jobless all my life and that I’ve never had a job, which is really hurtful. It gets pretty demotivating at times and sometimes makes me not want to apply, but I’m still going to my course and learning things. I apply for jobs some days and some days I don’t, but I still do it often. I’ve been trying for so long but still haven’t got anywhere. They advised me at my course to tailor my CV to specific jobs and to put the job ad into ChatGPT to find key words, since employers use an ATS system that looks for certain words in CVs. The course is going okay overall and they’ve told me to keep doing tailored CVs. The guy I mentioned before, the one whose job I unfortunately and regrettably declined, is still trying to find other jobs but hasn’t found anything yet. I keep worrying about time passing and still being out of work as months keep going by and I’m still unemployed. I can do early mornings though as I find them easier since I like starting and finishing early.

    @Redemption it takes a certain amount of strength to still be pushing forward, still trying and still advancing in the face of all that demotivating and demoralising insults from your family. It really does, so first of all, well done. You're an incredibly strong person redemption. Be proud of that.

    It's normal to feel hurt and crushed by those sorts of nasty words. Like i've said before, they don't recognise all the effort and hard work your putting in. But it is there, and it's what's going to get you your breakthrough mate.

    Putting your CV through AI tools is a very good idea. Key words, key phrases, they all are critical. So that is smart thinking. Stick on your course, and keep making progress that way, and keep building the CV. It's true that you did miss that one job opportunity, but others will come up bro. it's normal to be scared of time passing, but a job opening will come your way eventually.

    Don't give up bro, keep fighting on and when you do get that breakthrough, you can shove it in their faces.

    Thank you so much bro, always extremely helpful @DonnerKebab
  • RedemptionRedemption Community Connector Posts: 6,778 Master Poster
    sinead276 wrote: »
    I know how hard it can be when you have people in your ear saying negative things towards you. But the fact that no matter what you keep going and keep trying just shows how determined and committed you are to the process. Like the course said, using things like ChatGPT can be useful, helping you figure out how you can word your skills to best fit criteria and things like that - boosting your chances of getting that breakthrough you deserve.

    Keep going with it all - you've got this!!!

    Thank you so much Sinead, I always love getting a reply from you, great reply as always. Really appreciate it, I hope you're ok.
Sign In or Register to comment.