Should you quit your job in order to look for a new one??

This is a common situation you might be in. Should you quit now and focus on finding a new job, or should you STAY at your current job and keep looking?

Companies usually like to hire people who currently have a job, as opposed to people who are unemployed. The reason is that companies characterize most people who are unemployed as having some type of "problem."
 
This may NOT be true about you (whether you have a job right now or not) but by having no job you may be perceived as having some type of problem. So if you can, DON'T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB while you are looking for a new job.

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Since you won't be quitting, what should you do?

Become the perfect employee! -- Approach your current job as if you are going for a promotion, or as if you are putting in an extra effort so that you get a raise.

But at the same time, tactfully BLOW SOME SOME STUFF OFF and carefully CUT OUT EARLY in order to give yourself enough time to focus on YOUR TRUE GOAL -- which is getting the heck out of there and getting into a new job, right?!?

Here are 6 things you should do at your current job:

 1. Use a private, personal email account for your job hunting. Use yahoo, or gmail. Your NEXT boss may not like the fact that you are using your existing company email to search for a new job. Also, your company email is property of the company, and they might be reading it, or they might save it for later.

 2. Don't miss work at your current job to do your interviews! Schedule your interviews for lunch time, or after work. In fact, you should start coming in earlier and visibly staying later. Maintain the APPEARANCE of WORKING HARDER at your current job while you are looking for a new gig.

 3. Try to find ways to save money for your current employer. Then in your interviews you can say, "In the last month I saved my company $7,500."

 4. At your current job put in an extra effort to try new things OUTSIDE OF your job description. Help people you usually don't help. Then write that down ... use it in your interviews.

 5. Don't talk trash about your current company or boss. Be diplomatic about how you convey your dissatisfaction -- both at your current job, in the interviews you are doing, and after you get hired into the new job you are going for.

 6. Go out of your way to find ways to TRAIN YOURSELF that will prepare you for your next position. You can volunteer for tasks that will give you more experience. You can use that experience as "ammo" in your job interviews.



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