Job-hunting when your industry has dried up

A discussion with Anne - one of the participants from the Q102 Workshop. Three key problems for Anne:

• Not too many 'real' opportunities to apply to

• Lots of applying via online routes which is not leading to many interviews

• Forced to apply outside her area of immediate expertise as her industry has 'dried up.'
  

A goodly part of this is a positioning issue - because Anne can't simply move to a new organisation in her existing role, she has to think long and hard about how she advertises herself to potential employers. That positioning statement needs to be well-defined and well-presented and, at the moment, Anne still has some work to do in that regard.

I suspect that her situation is lamentably familiar to many of you; we'll be following up with her over the coming weeks. See what you think ...

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