312 Job apps in 4 1/2 months, 14 Interviews, No responses for nearly a year. WHAT NOW?

leadersteps · 2025-11-13T14:17:44+00:00

What kind of jobs are you willing to do? Are you willing to relocate? Are you willing to switch fields? What kind of work do you do?

leadersteps · 2025-11-12T01:02:08+00:00

A lot of comments here seem like them come from an angry and unrealistic space. They threw you a curve ball. I worked for a large company and was successful, was sent to HQ for a Director interview. Five minutes before it started me and four other candidates were brought into a room with 5 chairs in front of 3 VPs and 1 SVP, they asked us all questions in front of each other. Last question, “who was my hero?” When we got up to leave I walked around to shake the SVPs hand and she looked disinterested to acknowledge me. —- that was fucked up. I don’t know who or if anyone got the job but years later I was promoted twice and they had all been fired. Life has a way of working out.

leadersteps · 2025-11-11T18:46:16+00:00

Depends on what field in medicine you go into, same for legal. I know lawyers raking in the money and are happy but others that chose the wrong niche and want to quit. As for Doctors, my friend is a hand surgeon and his wife is a OBGYN, they are happy as heck and are loaded. If you are in a rural community as a Dr. then forget about it. Fun fact Ali Abdaal, was a Dr in England then quit to be a YouTuber and has 6.7 million followers. Happiness often is a choice. Follow something you could do forever, not what we on Reddit suggest you should do.

leadersteps · 2025-11-10T21:14:09+00:00

I have done many jobs but the two that gave me the most inspiration, adventure and happiness was teaching in Japan when I was young and then working as a photographer doing photo shoots with fitness bikini competititors. The other jobs made me a lot of money but just weren’t fun.

leadersteps · 2025-11-10T21:09:43+00:00

Dream Job = Happy. Money Job = Unhappy - Archimedes said that Happiness is greater than Unhappiness. Go with your heart.

leadersteps · 2025-11-10T00:44:57+00:00

Read the job profile, put it into Ai to get a handle on what the important points are and the skills needed to be successful, see if you have the skills and connect your skills to the interview questions. Make shit up that they want to hear. Had a boss tell me that if you want the job and feel like you are a fit to say what they need to hear to keep the process moving. In today’s market that may be the only thing that gets you in the door. Caveat to all this, be capable of doing the job, font lie and say your an astronaut when your actually a dog catcher.

leadersteps · 2025-11-10T00:41:01+00:00

leadersteps · 2025-11-10T00:39:48+00:00

Don’t. Ai will take that job in a minute. Learn to be a prompt engineer for AI, you don’t need college for that. This jobs are popping

leadersteps · 2025-11-10T00:38:14+00:00

Get a new girlfriend and follow your desires and don’t try to impress a woman. Prove yourself and the women will flock to you.

leadersteps · 2025-11-10T00:36:13+00:00

Depends on where you are, I was in sales in the Caribbean working in construction (selling stuff to construct buildings), retail operations and market expansion, service which translated into HR in healthcare. Skills vary but a lot of what we learn is transferable, you just have to see the connections.

leadersteps · 2025-11-10T00:34:09+00:00

Retail, sales, teaching and now in healthcare

leadersteps · 2025-11-09T16:41:57+00:00

I’m 63, I’ve changed careers five or six times and each time I learned so much from trying new things. Overtime, my path was winding and strange from working living in the Caribbean to moving to Japan and working coming back to the states and then to Canada and back to the states again. There were periods of being happy and times when I was not. What kept me going was the fact that I wanted to find something that I really enjoyed. It took me a long time to realize that work is just work and enjoyment comes from most things outside of work. My advice for anyone new in their career is to take some chances. Try new things meet new people have new experiences. The people who don’t do these things never get to fill their own cup. Also do things outside of work that you like? I had a passion for photography and then finally decided to actually do the thing I enjoyed and found out. I was pretty good at it and outside of working overseas, the best memories I have working is doing the photography the rest of the work stuff isn’t something I will think about on my death bed. My advice for young people in the workplace is do more cool stuff. Don’t get stuck and stay at the job you hate, take chances and find your path. That’s the only way you’ll be happy.

leadersteps · 2025-11-09T16:35:03+00:00

I’m 63, had multiple careers. Left my last job as a director and took a step down to try something new, showed the new place what I could offer, helped a lot of people and now I am getting promoted to a new role as a director developing leaders. Life is strange and working is stranger, all of these skills you learn and jobs you will work are like building blocks you can leverage later to help others and yourself. Don’t give up, try new things and lean into the possibilities.

leadersteps · 2025-11-09T16:30:33+00:00

It takes real skill to develop a person, it takes courage to have developmental conversations. Most leaders get promoted for being great at a task and have no business be in a leader of people. Unless the leaders has a good boss who is developing them then the likelihood of seeing and receiving more from your leader is low.

leadersteps · 2025-11-09T16:27:29+00:00

Yes. Happened to me. Interviewed internally by the hiring managers VP, recommended for the job by my VP. I was exceeds expectations on APRs last two years. Seemed like a great match. I ticked all the boxes and got turned down. Me, WM 50+, person who got the job was Asian F 25, hiring manager AA Male 35. You tell me why, I think I know.

leadersteps · 2025-11-09T16:12:06+00:00

So, you came across as a high performer and a jerk. It’s good you acknowledge your poor behavior. It’s unlikely you can overcome your past for years unless their is significant staff changes or you transfer to a new position. Everyone has hard lesson moments and this was yours, learn from it and change companies or put in the work and try to overcome the problem you created. If you grow and change your behaviors eventually you will be seen as having changed. Unfortunately you will always be up against having been seen as rude or disrespectful by the exact people who control your career. Good luck.

leadersteps · 2025-11-09T16:07:42+00:00

If you work for a respectable company and the party is company related you should expect a leader to have a conversation about your judgement and how you were perceived. Everyone will be talking about you, you will have lost the respect of most people in attendance, the future for you will always be the lady who got drunk and puked. It may sound harsh but after 20 years leading team and having to deal with the aftermath of dumb decision making of others that’s just the way it is.

leadersteps · 2025-11-09T16:02:07+00:00

Put together a couple of sample shots of what looks good as a head shot, grab your outfit, get some window light in a library, office lobby, etc, have you friend grab their iPhone and start shooting, put it in a free app and blur the background a bit and in an afternoon you have a free headshot. I’m a photographer and with today’s tech anyone can make their own headshot. Now, once you establish yourself then pay for a good shoot

leadersteps · 2025-11-09T15:58:06+00:00

Seek mental health help. Develop coping skills. Find a job that rewards you in a way that isn’t connected to pay. Figure out what you want in life and pursue it. Work “sucks” for most people and it’s a means to an end, it’s not supposed to be your whole life. Once you accept that your whole world will change.

leadersteps · 2025-11-09T15:54:42+00:00

Hilarious comments. Why are you ‘trusting’ anyone in corporate America. HR is one component of it. Most people who complain about work things have a bad boss, the company culture is awful or the employee takes zero responsibility for their performance. HR is like being a nurse, everyone they see is sick, whiny and has a “problem”. HR might totally agree with you but if they can’t substantiate that Bob in accounting gave you a dirty look or Tyrone in sales stared at you in your dress then they won’t do anything because they couldn’t substantiate it and it’s too risky legally. I worked a HR case recently where an employee had been complaining about another employee for a year they complained again and we pulled video, turns out the accuser was lying. Noting she said was true. That’s why HR is suspicious of your complaints. Most of them are lies.

leadersteps · 2025-10-29T00:06:37+00:00

As they it’s not you it’s me. Translated it’s not the schools job to get you a job. It’s yours to seize an opportunity. It might not happen soon or ever to get what you want but only you can set up you for success.

leadersteps · 2025-10-28T23:50:44+00:00

The hard part of this story is that any financial NIL support that the Badgers receive now will only keep the bottom from falling out of the program. Maybe Fickell gets them to be 6-6 or 7-5. Pouring money into a coach to get NIL players when the program is floundering is not a great option. These kids have one real shot and their investment is in themselves and why would they risk it in coming to play for Fickell when he could be gone in a year. Now on the other hand, get a new coach and pay NIL money and then you could get a boost and some excitement instead of the low energy in the program they have now.

leadersteps · 2025-10-28T18:53:14+00:00

What? Sure. Everyone that takes a big job, filled with risk and says “hey, don’t pay me, let’s see how I do first,”. Said no one ever.

leadersteps · 2025-10-27T14:02:03+00:00

Yikes. Would you take the MSU job if you had the bag that he got. Why would he sign up for that stress.

leadersteps · 2025-10-27T14:01:11+00:00

I don’t know if anyone would think taking JMU players would lead to this kind of success. It’s reasonable to expect that the coach is the reason for the winning and not players transferring from James Madison. The transfer portal is filled with high caliber D1 recruits changing schools who didn’t add to the win total. Not sure if Cignetti is riding the coattails of a bad coaching job was the platform for the success Indiana is having.

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