Just hang in as long as you can… All of us will eventually end our job search. Below is a story I received this past Tuesday from a local job search group:

“I had pretty much left the job market in search of an IT Project Mgr position and decided to pursue a teaching career. I was in the last week of alternate certification training and have passed the TX certification exam to teach middle school science. As you may have heard in the news, teacher hiring is also way down this year due to budget cuts. Out of 48 of us in middle school training, only 6 have positions as of Aug. 1st.

During training, I received a phone call out of the blue from an IT recruiter. She was searching for a candidate for an internal project for Citigroup that was not posted anywhere. The hiring manager had given her a very specific group of keywords. My posted resume’ on careerbuilder matched perfectly on all the keywords in my career summary and work history. I interviewed by telephone two days later and I begin with Citigroup in Irving on Aug. 17th!

So, the bottom line – make sure you have the right keywords in your resume’ in BOTH places; don’t give up – someone may come looking for you; and keep on participating in networking, surrounding yourself with positive people, and keep the Faith!

Beth”