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Job searching can definitely be exhausting, especially when the results don’t come as quickly as expected. It’s totally normal to feel discouraged or frustrated, but the good news is there are tools and practices that can help you stay grounded and maintain a positive mindset during the process.

Here’s a breakdown of what your service could offer to help manage frustration and self-care during a job search:

Simple Self-Care Tools and Daily Practices

• What you'll learn: How to integrate self-care into your daily routine to cope with job search frustration.
• Why it’s useful: Job searching can feel like a full-time job itself, and without proper care, burnout is real. Practices like mindfulness, exercise, and setting aside time for activities you enjoy can help you manage stress and stay motivated.

Understanding Negativity Bias and Its Impact on Job Search

• What you'll learn: Why your brain tends to focus on negative thoughts and how it gets triggered by setbacks in the job search process.
• Why it’s useful: Our brains are wired to focus on the negative (called negativity bias), especially in situations where there’s uncertainty or rejection—like job hunting. Understanding this bias can help you recognize when it’s happening and take steps to redirect your thoughts and energy towards a more positive and productive mindset.

Why It Happens

• What you'll learn: The science behind why negativity bias kicks in more during a job search, making the process feel discouraging.
• Why it’s useful: Knowing that this is a natural response to stress or setbacks can help you be kinder to yourself when you feel down, rather than internalizing it as personal failure.

Tools for Staying Positive

• What you’ll learn: Techniques like journaling, gratitude practices, or even setting small, manageable goals to help keep your spirits up.
• Why it’s useful: These small practices can shift your focus from what you haven’t accomplished yet to what you have, helping you build momentum and feel more in control of the process.

Benefits of This Approach

By learning how to manage your mental and emotional well-being during a job search, you can avoid getting stuck in negative thought cycles. You'll approach the process with more energy and clarity, which ultimately makes you more attractive to employers. Plus, keeping a positive outlook improves your overall health and well-being. Job searches are a marathon, not a sprint. These practices can be incredibly helpful to stay balanced and positive as you move forward in the process.

What Clients Are Saying

• Great tools and reminders of why I need to be positive I will use this as a resource.
• Very well organized and presented the facilitator very well versed and experienced in this subject and field.
• Gives a ton of good positivity info for those who may not know where to start.
• Yes, to see people with the same hopes and fears made me feel better.
• Yes it was a very helpful workshop to reinforce my tools I am currently using.
• Connected well with the group used personal stories to make a positive point.
• Well done highly encouraging / I was skeptical about attending and this really helped me – Thank You.
• It is a great eye opener and leads to breaking through barriers in job search.
• OVRC has an excellent grasp of how someone looking for employment is feeling and what they need to do to secure employment. This Positivity Workshop filled the touchy feely emotions that I am experiencing.
• It made me more aware of my self-talk, negative, and self-defeating thoughts about my abilities and skills, and to be more open and kind about my capabilities and what I have to offer.
• There was so much quality material presented! I loved how the facilitator listed the extensive sources & resources she used to develop the workshop.
• Setting goals that are specific! Understanding how to take what I want and translate it into meaningful and tangible things.