to a career and life you'll truly enjoy. And in today's video I'm going to teach

you my five tips on how to deal with rejection especially if you've been

rejected from being offered a job opportunity or promotion and what you

can take from this experience to help your career moving forward

as a career strategist I've had the honour of being able to help numerous

professionals land their dream job offers and if this is something that

you're interested in learning how to stand out and get hired directly from me

then I will give you details about that at the end of this video I've had quite

a number of people reach out to me recently and asked me this very question

of Linda how do I overcome that feeling of rejection especially since that job

offer that I wanted was my dream job offer it was my dream job company how do

I overcome this feeling and how do I pick myself up so that I can do better

next time well I really want to tell you that the

whole thing with this feeling of rejection that you're experiencing is

that it really is just a feeling it's an energy and it's something that you have

to work through and be able to gain knowledge from in order to be resilient

and move forward with your next opportunity and land the right job offer

that's right for you so today I'm going to share with you my five tips on what

you can do to help you to overcome this feeling of rejection so that you can

move forward in a more positive way tip number one to overcome the feeling of

rejection cry or mope it out let yourself feel and Express the pain of

not being selected it's okay to feel hurt and disappointed in order to become

more resilient we need to be able to accept our emotions whatever emotions

they are fully and give them the time and space that they need to express

themselves within our system so that they can clear our system and what

happens is you'll be able to clear these emotions this emotion of feeling hurt

and feeling disappointed fairly quickly when you fully accept it rather than

trying to suppress it down and that'll help you to be more resilient for the

next opportunity tip number two be honest with yourself

I could easily sit here and say don't take it personally the reason why they

didn't offer you that job wasn't because of you but what if it was now I'm not

saying that the reason why you didn't get the job had everything to do with

you but you really want to clarify if it had something to do with you or if it

had something to do with reason that was completely out of your control when it

comes to your career you have to be able to see

the whole perspective from a very objective level and understand whether

you truly deserve that promotion or job offer that you wanted so ask yourself

what are the possible objective reasons for why I wasn't selected it might be

that maybe you performed really well in the interview but you lacked a certain

type of technical experience that was needed for the position or it wasn't

about your experience at all and it was more about your interview skills and

that you weren't able to communicate and articulate your stories to the

interviewer in a convincing and persuasive way once you figure out these

reasons for why you are potentially not selected you then need to start coming

up with a plan of action on how you can improve yourself for the next time tip

number three seek help if this has become a pattern if you keep figuring

that the reason why you've not been selected for a position for a job offer

job opportunity is because maybe your resume isn't strong enough or maybe

because your interview skills aren't strong enough then you really need to

seek help you can't tell yourself oh I'll just

work on it and hopefully be better next time but not really work on it you

really need to identify the weaknesses if you've seen that this has become a

pattern and actually work on it so that you can improve and advance your career

further so seek out all the different options for you that are available to

find help that will help you to get the opportunities that you're looking for

whether it's working on your own and trying to figure it out on your own or

seeking the help of a career coach like myself tip number four acknowledge what

you are good at it's easy to think that you stink and that you aren't worthy of

a job opportunity just because they didn't offer it to you but what you

still have to remember is this they invited you for the interview for a

reason now if they didn't invite you for an interview then that says something

about the way that you've displayed yourself on the resume but if they did

invite you for the interview then you have to remember they invited me for a

reason they see something within me that is worthy of their time and

consideration so that means that you have qualities that they're looking for

and so you have to remind yourself what are the qualities that I have that are

my strengths what are the good qualities that I have that I know will set myself

apart from the rest of the crowd you have to remind yourself of what these

strengths and qualities are and that will help you in the next time that you

go for an interview and finally tip number five know that there is the right

opportunity for you out there and this just simply wasn't the one part of

navigating a career successfully is to actually allow it to flow in the

direction that it's meant to go without stress and strain what you have to

remember is inside of you you've been telling yourself that you want to make a

career change and so you've been given that internal nudge that you're ready

that it's the right time and so you have to remember that you are ready for a

change which means that there is an opportunity out there for you that

matches what you're ready to get into if the desire is there then change is going

to come about as long as you don't stop yourself or block yourself with your own

frustration and feelings of low confidence the only thing that you have

to remember is that if it wasn't yours it wasn't meant to be and to have the

faith that there is something better for you out there so there you have it my

five tips on how to deal with rejection especially if you didn't get a job offer

or promotion now if you're someone who is exactly in this boat and you have

been looking for a while you've been going on interviews you've been rejected

from job offers and you realize that you're ready for one on one professional

guidance from me then feel free to reach out to me head on over to my website

lindaraynier.com/standoutgethired read through the page fill out the

application form and a team member of mine will reach out to you if we feel

that you're a match to work with me and we'll reach out to you directly if you

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friends thank you so much for watching and I will see you next time.