SlideShare: Five Tips to Stay Focused on Your Job Search

Each time you interrupt a focused work task, it takes time to get back to the level of concentration and effectiveness you had before the interruption. You might consider yourself an excellent multitasker, but recent studies show that people misjudge how well they perform when dividing their attention among many tasks (and the people who believe they are most effective at multitasking are least productive, when tasks are measured impartially).

A job search demands a lot of different tasks, so how in the hyperlinked world are you going to keep focused? Again, the answer is good time management. For most of us, that means blocking out a space and time when you won’t be interrupted. It also helps to follow some basic habits that keep you from distracting yourself. Here are five tips from Doug Hardy, author of Monster's Six Fundamentals to Building a Lifelong Career ebook.

Five Tips to Stay Focused on Your Job Search

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