International Job Search: How to Keep Going When the Rejections Don't Seem to Stop

Last week I drove to a lake to run 22K — my last long training run before a race this weekend. I had my gear, my energy bar, my whole situation sorted.

I made it 150 meters before I tripped over a tree root and went down with road rash all the way down my arm.

I scraped myself up, assessed the situation, and went home.

I had another run scheduled for Monday. I ran it. Outside. Same surfaces, same risk of tree roots. And the race is still happening this weekend.

That's what your international job search has to look like.

This week I'm talking about what rejections are actually telling you — which is not what you think they're telling you — why this is a half marathon not a sprint, and how to use the falls as information instead of letting them become a story about whether you're capable.

The tree root tells you where to watch your footing. It doesn't tell you to stop running.

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