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1. Keep news reports in perspective.A steady drumbeat of dire unemployment headlines is unlikely to boost any job seeker's morale, so try to focus on the (admittedly few) rays of hope amid the gloom. It may be useful to keep in mind, for example, that while the overall unemployment rate is stuck at 9.1%, joblessness among people with a college degree is less than half that (about 4%). "Aggregate statistics never tell the whole story," Mattson points out. "So don't let them get you down."
正確解讀新聞報(bào)道。媒體一貫熱衷于大肆炒作失業(yè)狀況，這些自然無(wú)法鼓舞求職者的士氣。所以求職者要努力在黑暗中看到希望的光芒（不可否認(rèn)，機(jī)會(huì)確實(shí)很少）。比如，求職者需要記住，盡管總體失業(yè)率高達(dá)9.1%，但是在擁有大學(xué)學(xué)位的人群中，失業(yè)率還不到總體失業(yè)率的一半（約為4%），或許這樣想會(huì)有所幫助。麥特森指出：“匯總統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)據(jù)永遠(yuǎn)無(wú)法全面地反映事實(shí)，因此，不要因?yàn)檫@些數(shù)據(jù)而感到沮喪。”
2. Become an expert on finding a job."Finding work is your job now, so treat it the way you've treated other professional challenges in the past," Mattson advises. "If someone hired you to find yourself a job, how would you go about it?"
努力成為求職專家。麥特森建議：“現(xiàn)在，求職就是你的工作。所以，你要像對(duì)待過(guò)往的職業(yè)挑戰(zhàn)一樣來(lái)對(duì)待求職。假設(shè)有人雇你為自己找一份工作，你會(huì)怎么做？”
The task may require some creative thinking. "Too often jobseekers rely on job boards and waste a lot of effort applying for advertised openings," Mattson observes. "But tapping into the informal job market works much better. Your church, your college alumni association, even the people you know at the gym can often be an unexpected source of great leads."
這個(gè)任務(wù)就需要發(fā)揮一些創(chuàng)造性思維。麥特森發(fā)現(xiàn)：“求職者往往過(guò)于依賴招工信息欄，花費(fèi)了大量精力去申請(qǐng)廣告中的空缺職位。但實(shí)際上，借助非正式的就業(yè)市場(chǎng)往往有效得多。教堂、大學(xué)校友會(huì)，甚至在健身房認(rèn)識(shí)的人通常都會(huì)帶來(lái)意想不到的線索。”
