Psychological Wars in Jobless Mind
By: Salman Habib
Tags: Jobs, User Experience, New York, Fear, Psychology

What happened now? What is my future? How I can get job? Do I have to improve my skills? How I will survive without earning? What happened if I will reject in interview? Others have more skills and confidence. My life will be destroy if couldn’t get job now. All my friends have jobs or business, How I can compete with them? How I will face my family and society with jobless status? I have skills but no job. Is there any bad luck with me?

Human mind is full of complexities. It depends on us that we control it or it will control us. Life is full of surprises. It is a travel of joy and sorrow. Right now our topic is about jobless people. Almost every one of us has gone through this stage of joblessness. Every jobless mind has different fears which he/she suffering from. Lets talk about different fears.

During preparation his/her resume, educational documents or when applying for job many fears running in his/her mind.

Is my resume is perfect? What happened if more qualified people will apply for this job? What I will say if interviewer ask about experience? If I couldn’t get interview call? If my college mate or friends will get job and I will not? What I will tell my family If I rejected in interview?

First of all we have to acknowledge and understand that there is no perfection in the world. Whatever your qualification you can improve your skills by using different mediums.

I got rejected in my first 5 interviews and its was most desperate time in my life. I moved from my hometown for job that time and also running out of money. Only one meal in 36 hours and saving money by walking miles for interview. But what I learnt that time to control my mind and prepared myself for next challenge. After 5 times rejection I recalled my memory and fixed my mistakes. Reviewed my resume. Designed more dummy work for portfolio according to latest trends and techniques. Worst part of this whole process was my incomplete graduation. But in the end I got my first job in 6th interview and salary was handsome that time.

If you are newly graduate or searching for your first job please don’t worry about rejections. It is your learning period. After every interview you will learn lot of things about yourself and your particular field. Just give your best and always be ready to learn.

What I observe from personal experience when I was at my first job I was working like a slave or robot. I always said yes to every task and spent hours after job hours to complete that tasks. That type of fear is very dangerous you assume that existing job is last job for you in the world. No one will hire your or you don’t have any choice other than this.

But there is many opportunities for you. If you are thinking that your skills are not growing in current job just left it in good way and go for other job. In first ten years of career we have to explore things as we can.

Personally I started my first job in a software service company where I designed different types of apps and after that I joined a company who was working on artificial intelligence and data. Both companies have huge differences but I learnt many things from both jobs.

Conclusion is that you have to control your negative thoughts and fears by learning new skills. Always prepare for challenge and rejections. Rejections is part of life. It will take you up not down but for going up you have to learn from rejection. Review yourself and your skills everyday. In the end I will say again no one is perfect or perfectionist in this world.