Working Smarter, Not Harder: Jontae Grace’s Job Search Success Story

Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job

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Job searching requires both emotional resilience and strategic efficiency. Find Your Dream Job guest Jontae Grace learned this during his six-month job search after being laid off, including the crushing disappointment of reaching final interviews twice without receiving an offer. His advice: separate your self-worth from your employment status and never stop applying until you have a formal offer. Jontae advocates for using quick apply functions on job boards to save time: what traditionally takes 30-45 minutes per application can be reduced to seconds. He also suggests looking beyond salary to total compensation packages, sharing how one employer's wellness reimbursement program provided $1,500 annually in real value through dollar-for-dollar matching on health and wellness expenses.

About Our Guest:

Jontae Grace is an employee relations specialist at Do Good Multnomah.

Resources in This Episode:

• Connect with Jontae on LinkedIn.
• To learn more about Jontae Grace’s job search, visit macslist.org/stories.

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