How To Find A New Job

Rejection in the workplace can come in many guises. You may be rejected at interview stage by a potential employer, you might feel like your current boss isn’t listening to you and that your ideas and thoughts aren’t being taken seriously, you might have been turned down for promotion or you might be being given the cold-shoulder by your co-workers.

Any one of these scenarios can really make you lose confidence in yourself and start to doubt your own abilities. In short your self-esteem starts to suffer.

However, it is important to remember that failure forms an integral part of the path to success for everyone. Take J K Rowling for example, she was turned down by numerous publishers before her first manuscript was accepted by Bloomsbury. Basically she was a single mother living on welfare, fitting in writing around caring for her young child. I’m sure she felt each one of those rejections very keenly but she didn’t let it deter her, on the contrary she kept plugging away until she achieved success, and what a success it was.

Dealing with rejection is only as negative as you let it be. As difficult as rejection is sometimes it can actually be a catalyst for change.

Here are 3 Steps to Turning a Rejection into a Positive Outcome:

·         First-off try and avoid taking the rejection personally. Rejection is seldom aimed at someone in particular, it is oftentimes just a chain of circumstances that reach a particular conclusion - and it is rarely all about you.

·         If you have been or are being rejected, ask the person why. Why didn’t you get that job or promotion, why are you being cold-shouldered by colleagues. Sometimes people will just be very shocked that have asked and may not even realize what they are doing. Other times you may hear the answers you need to make sure it doesn’t happen again going forwards.

·         Resist trying to change history. Sometimes things happen, you can’t change what has gone before, but you can make sure that your reaction to is brings about a more positive outcome.