How critical is your business card to your career success?

I don’t think anyone would argue that the appearance of your card is not important at all. It is.

But is it this important?

How about THIS important?

I came across these two videos yesterday and they really hammered home a point for me.

So many of us in our work lives are perfectionists. Because of this, it’s very easy to become overly focused on one thing that we’ve honed in on as the “key” to our success.

But there is no one “key.” There are many keys, and particularly today, it is important to broaden, rather than narrow, our focus.

When you’re in the midst of a job search, it’s easy to find ways to waste your time. I don’t mean spending your afternoons watching Oprah. I mean finding ways to feel productive without really accomplishing very much. For example, many jobseekers spend hours every day poring over different job boards, job-board aggregators, corporate HR pages, and other sites in hopes of finding that needle in a haystack — the perfect job!

When you’re out of work, searching job boards can become obsessive. We commissioned research last year that showed that most workers searching for jobs online are spending an average of 50 hours per month searching Internet job listings — and some jobseekers are spending twice that amount of time! That’s way too much time.

At RiseSmart, we try to help you broaden your focus.

We accomplish this by helping you with the most laborious part of your job search — specifically, searching online job listings on your behalf — so you can branch out and spend more time at networking events, building relationships through social media, applying and interviewing for positions, and generally broadening your jobseeking efforts.

Isn’t it time you became a more well-rounded jobseeker? Try our free trial today and find out for yourself.

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