Like most things in life, conducting a successful job search requires an effective strategy and a commitment to executing that strategy. Let’s take a look a few tips on how job seekers can create their own personalized job search “game plan”:

1. Be honest about your needs and you personal willingness to commit time to your job search. Are you willing to treat it like a job, working 8 hours a day, 5 days week? Or is that a bit too tiring for your tastes? There is no wrong or right answer. The important thing is that you be honest about what you’re willing to commit in terms of hours in a day to your job search.
2. Pinpoint what is important to your personal job search.  Many job seekers waste tremendous amounts of time doing things that won’t move their job search forward.  Don’t make this mistake.  For most job seekers, sending out resumes and following up with employers may be the most important things they can do for their job search. For other job seekers, going to networking events may be the most important things they can do at this point in their job search. Whatever the “important things” are, identify them and commit to spending the majority of your time doing those things.
3. Decide which days and hours you will use working your job search strategy. There is no rule that you must commit every single day and hour to your job search; but you must commit enough time to make progress.
4. Record what you have accomplished for your job search every day.  Your job search success will be measure by how much your actually did, so it’s important that you accurately record your efforts.