The Job Hunt Boogyman

The job hunt boogyman. I thought I might write about my job hunting experience after 10 years of never out of work life.

Now I see the market has changed a lot since the last time I was searching for a job and it got harder and tougher if I may say. Why everything now is complicated, even how the recruiter is handling CVs as now I can see a job post ad got a little more than 200 applicants in just a few hours! Which lead me to the consideration that my application was not going to be viewed and assessed fairly. Especially if you are seeking a position in international companies.

It all begin with me after I was relaying on a contract for a client that he ended after 3 years of stability. I was working remotely and I felt safe, getting paid in time and working my full-time contract. My self-development was not as good as I was raising a visually impaired toddler for the last 2 years besides working. There was no time for development, only work then come home and family.

I started feeling down and going into a depressed mood. Now that I really can't find a senior role for an outsider who got bigger dreams and higher ambition.

Before going into the dilemma of applying for a job, I reached out to acquaintances, friends, and colleagues to save me from this well. I made a tweet and got a huge engagement only with no offers that might fit my needs.

I started applying for a job, now that is a full-time job of its own, when you search for a job via LinkedIn or #GoogleSearch , or even a third-tier website; you find yourself setting up an account on never-ending hiring websites that as many as the people on the planet. It is a headache and all the jobs there seem like a daydream and your application goes through software that might not do you justice after all.

I tried to go into the freelancing job again, as I just hated being without any job at the moment. Some websites for freelancing that I tried are Upwork, freelancers, PeoplePerHour, JobRapido.

Other jobs posting websites are remoters.com, weworkremotely.com, and seojobs.com, bayt.com they are all huge help and have many job opportunities but mostly (US based only, UK based only, and so on)

Once you are inside this monster's mouth, you are never out. Never-ending applications and never-ending rejections due to reasons you will never know. You see yourself qualified and ready to do the job with high expectations, but the recruiters or the filtering software sees otherwise. You might come from the wrong nationality or you are based in the wrong country. You are not native enough, you are not good enough, you are not ENOUGH.

Now it is time to get out of this hassle and plan a new plan, maybe a plan C as a friend once told me. What if I built my own business? what if I can unite my personal life experience and what's going on (As a mother of a VI) and try and help others with what I have learned so far.

The first plan, so it went as follows. I admitted myself to a diploma that got nothing to my career at the moment, it is a diploma for the blind and visual impaired from ESLSCA University . My toddler son made me realize that many people out there need help. I feel deep inside me that I might have a chance to help these people one way or another. I already created an Arabic Group for the Parents of the blind and visually impaired. Hoping that it might give the parents some strength in the time they need it. Why not start to be more professional about it, while I am off the job? I don't know where I am going with this but what the heck?

The second plan, I am very experienced in my field, but no one is an encyclopedia, we always need to learn more, try more, test more, and so on. I believe I am missing the Managerial talent in me. I can't see myself as a manager, always see myself as a mentor instead. and I always need help. I mean who doesn't? I enrolled myself in a course for SEO Manager by the amazing Blue Array , it actually a great help so far I am still 6%, I wish I was more consistent to finish this.

My third plan. Is to move. I have many projects in my mind, that I can call my own. It needs precision and money to build it. That is another plan to go through after finding a job to spare the expenses to build it.

My God ever since I am jobless and I feel very lazy. I have many plans on my mind. But I am not moving! I feel like I am stuck. Now that I wrote this, I have my plan in order, please do not waste more of your time. Take your rest, go for a holiday if you have to. Just be angry, sad, and depressed. Get it all out of you. Then start moving. It is out there, we just need to work on ourselves to get it, don't blame it on the HR filtering software or the global recession.

It's a venting post. I hope it might help anyone in my shoes. Best of luck! Thanks for reading.

My twitter: @HebaSaidSEO

I am a speaker at VirtuaCon, TurnDigi, and NigeriaSEO where I talked about “Content Reoptimization ”, “Internal Linking ”.?

I was invited as a judge in the MENA Search Award 2021 by Don’t Panic.

I made a podcast talk with WorkinSEO , the transcript of the interview here .

Featured by? David Bain in his book titled “SEO in 2022 ” among 66 other SEO Experts.

I shared one tip about link building evergreen strategy with Hardy Desai in his article? “9 Evergreen Link Building Strategies that Experts Use in 2022 ”