Your Future Endeavors

I think I got a gig.  We'll see . . .  The details still need to be ironed out.  This, however, brings us to an interesting question.  When does a candidate halt the job search?  The obvious answer is when one gets a job, but things are not always that clear.  The answer depends on one's circumstances.  If one is broke, then one had better keep chugging ahead applying for jobs until a start date for the new job is set.  I've even been in situations where the start date has been moved back.  Fortunately, I've never been in any situation where the start date evaporates or the job offer gets rescinded, but that likely has happened to someone. Conversely, if one has money, then it's time to halt the job search.  Even if things go awry, you can always start it up again.  Yeah, maybe you missed a couple of decent opportunities, but odds are the job will go forward and if you didn't halt the search, you would have missed out on an even rarer commodity:  time. Time is a

Looking for a job has changed quite a bit over the years.  I am old enough to remember the old days of going through the help wanted ads in the newspaper.  Then as the Internet became more central to American life, various job boards replaced it and one another.  Some of the old job boards such as CareerBuilder and Monster are still active, but Indeed seems to have become the dominant one these days.  Pardon the pun, but indeed, Indeed is the one I mainly use in my current job search.  There are some other sites I eventually will branch out to when I expand my search if the current parameters don't pan out (if they do pan out, then expect this blog to be abandoned, forever I hope, no offense . . . there appears to be no danger of that at the moment though so I may be with you dear readers for a long time), but Indeed has proved to be all I need at the moment.  I was using LinkedIn, but I analyzed my job applications and realized that all the responses have come from Indeed applicat