STUDENTS: JOB SEARCH GOING SLOW? BUILD IP CREDENTIALS WHILE

Our experience has been that someone cannot be looking for a job 110% of their time. This doesn't work well, and can lead to burn-out.  The quality of one's time spent job-hunting is as important as the quantity. Thus, do not neglect the other sides of your personality. If you have ideas for inventions, innovations, items that may be sellable, it may help your psyche and mind-set to spend some time on these concepts as well. This is usually a different side of the mind that the pure job-hunting side. There are low-cost ways to get at least some IP protection for these. Write us and ask us your options.

There is nothing to be ashamed of in not finding the job you want. This can be happening to you for several reasons, many of which may be beyond your control. We all know that looking for a job can be a job in itself. But be strategic:  if there is a time-gap in your work-history, include in your resume that during this time, you were looking for a job, but also working on one or more of your inventions, or a movie script, writing a book, fund-raising, other.  This does not mean totally taking time away from your job-hunt. That should be primary, for sure. But as a way of balance, of working a different side of your brain, also work on your invention(s), also work on your creative endeavors. 

This Can be humiliating, non-ideal, but sometimes people who are looking for a job are at their most humble and most likely to appreciate developing some type of business-relationship, and these relationships may be more memorable and long-lasting than those made at other times.

If you come up with brands, you can start self-marking them 'TM'.  If you develop a movie script or at least a Treatment, you can register with the Writers Guild and protect your item, at very low cost The experience of doing this has authentic real-world value, and helps fill in holes and gaps in a resume.  If you have an invention-concept, you can document as best as known at the time, and submit a patent application yourself, for as low as $130.  This is difficult, takes a lot of patience.   If you are an artist or creator in other ways, you can file for Copyright and learn the Federal copyright system. 

For movie buffs, Paul Schrader wrote his "Taxi Driver" in 1974 during a period of especially painful unemployment, including from a woman who dismissed him as a broke loser. He certainly was broke. But these painful times helped him mine his dark side for one of the most famouns films of the 20th century

These are frustrating economic times. A lot of uncertainty. Some type of creative endeavor can help people discharge their anxiety and frustrations. Further, a well-know problem is that people who over-load on their job-hunting efforts often are mis-focused and not going about the search the right way.