Marleen Graham points out in her article, How to Stay Positive and Reinvent Yourself While Unemployed, that being unemployed negatively affects our “state of mind” making it difficult to see past our current circumstances. It is essential to keep yourself positive during your search; negativity spills over into your interactions with potential employers and can sabotage your best efforts to obtain a job.
One of the best ways to keep yourself positive, to add new skills to your resume, or to just eliminate an employer’s fear that you have become stale after a lengthy period of unemployment is to volunteer. Pick an area that relates to your profession or something that you always have had a passion for and begin to reap the rewards.
What are the benefits of volunteering?
- You focus on the needs of others, instead of your needs and wants
- Provides a boost to your self esteem » Read more: Unemployment is only a state of mind. If you don’t like living in that state, move!
