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how long is it  going to take, really? This is a very common question. Both Scott and Andrew have heard this question frequently. The variety of asking can influence the way in which it is answered.

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Asking Better Questions of Yourself. Crafting a better ask, will generate a better answer. 

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Aw. Welcome to job seekers radio. I'm Andrew, and I'm Scott this is a production meant to provide. You the listener meaningful support to find great careers faster. Whether you're working or not today on job seekers radio were answering. The lifelong question how long is it going to take to get a job? Well, it depends depends. Are you talking about the undergarments that you use older? But suppose, if that something you need to deal with and you know, maybe you should consider that. No, we're talking about this, maybe. Okay. Off to a great start. We are asked to this question. Just about every time we get together in a networking scenario. We hear it all the time. It is going to be a question that we've asked ourselves that others will ask us that we hear people asking each other. This question is never going away. And it, unfortunately, there's no good answer that covers everybody. It may be just have to ask a better question. We'll talk about that later on in this episode. The feeling I get is it really depends on how you ask it because it may be like, oh, how long is this going to take or you could be at the front end of the search. And you're wondering how long is this going to take a really depends on your mindset? And we talk about that in a lot of the episodes out here is where is your mindset? I really think that the the best approach to answering this question. First of all you have to understand that the answer that. You're going to find is going to be different from any other answer than anybody else finds because we're all in a unique situation as a result. We start looking for the answers internally in a future podcast. We're going to talk about looking for a success from external sources, and and the the liabilities involved in that. But I wanna touch on that for a moment. Because if I'm always looking for someone else to answer the question, I'm always going to find that it's a little bit off. Because no one else is going to be an exactly the same situation for me. And what works for them isn't always going to work for me. But there are ways for us to take what has worked for others. Try it on for size and see how that works for us. What it brings? Because really the way to answer that question for my experience has been what am I doing in my job search, and what of that is actually working what you really asking is what qualities or what components would. Determine how long is it gonna take to get a job? Exactly. And there's a lot. And there's a lot of them the first one I would look at is the level in terms of seniority in the organization, if you're looking director or executive level. The presumption is of course, depending on the other components will talk about here is that it's going to take longer. The companies are more deliberate about this hiring decisions. There might be more stakeholders involved, and it just gonna take longer. It may also be an organization that has a lot of back story that they want to undo they want to shift the focus or shift th...