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Under normal conditions, without contacts, looking for a job is about sending 100 resumes, to have 10 interviews and 1 job.
You may need to get the yellow pages and make a list of companies you may like to work for. You also need to keep a log of every data or event, so if they call you they may think they are the only company you have applied for.

Companies are not in a particular hurry to hire under normal conditions, so you may need to have patience.
You are selling the best product of the world: your work.
Getting a job is about sales, an impression, not about your skills. There will be enough time to demonstrate how good you are later. Now it is about selling.

A salesman who gets to sale in 13% of the attempts is an exceptionally good salesman. So do not feel bad. If a job is for you, it does not matter if there are 2 or 1500 candidates, it is for you.

Your job is to get a job. To get a job you need good selfesteem. Use the morning to look for a job, and the afternoon to do things that make you feel fine, to make you selfesteem to be fine. Investing time in your selfesteem will increase your performance in the job search.

The trick to be successful and never be discouraged is to have always another option. If you have to knock one door, you already planned what door you will knock next if it does not open. Most of doors are usually closed, do not worry. It took about 2000 attempts to invent the light bulb. Persistence is the key.

From an existencial point of view, unemployment is a time when life takes you out of the world, to a monastery of solitude where you much find inner peace. Without inner peace you will hardly find a job. When you have inner peace, a spiritual vision of life, all the uncertanties will fade, and you will get a job.

I know you will be telling me stories of how good it goes for you very soon.