10. Evaluate Your Progress

Expect that you will experience rejection. However, after a certain point, you may want to redirect your energies to your next city of choice. Be realistic and positive. Be sure you follow-up with thank you letters to everyone you interviewed with or who provided any career advice or assistance. Since failure to plan is planning to fail, having a game plan and a back-up plan is a smart idea for the challenges of the long distance job search.

Thomas J. Denham is the Director of the Siena College Career Center and a Private Career Advisor with Careers In Transition. He is a regular guest on Northeast Public Radio's, The Career Forum. He can be reached at http://www.siena.edu/denham. Thomas J. Denham retains the copyright to this article.

 

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