READ: “Priming Jobs as Skill Development Opportunities and Responses to Job Postings” (Canadian Journal of Career Development)
This recent article on the Canadian Journal of Career Development explains why it is so important to open our eyes to different experiences in our job search and career development:
Most inexperienced job seekers rely on a focused job search strategy, one in which they think about their career interests and try to find jobs that match those interests (Crossley & High-house, 2005; Fang & Saks, 2021). Those who use this strategy aim to short-list jobs that seem highly relevant to their interests and disregard jobs that seem unrelated to such interests. Intuitively, this job search strategy seems helpful for securing a desirable job. However, research suggests that adopting a narrow view on which jobs are relevant to one’s interests at such an early stage in one’s career might inadvertently lead inexperienced job seekers to overlook desirable jobs. Some jobs that may appear unrelated to one’s interests during a job search may later become relevant (Drewery & Pretti, 2021). And, as the job becomes more relevant to the individual, it also becomes more satisfying (Hur et al., 2019)."
