When I moved back to Switzerland, I spent over a year job searching. It was...painful 🥴...to put it mildly.
As I'm sure many others have experienced when sending out CVs, it usually goes hand-in-hand with a fair share of rejection, which can seriously chip away at your confidence.
For the recent article I wrote on modern dating 💞 I sent out a survey asking people about their experience in the dating pool. I realised that a huge obstacle in fostering connections, is fear of rejection.
Rejection is a natural part of our professional and personal lives, yet I think most of us sort of just stumble into a way of figuring out how to handle it - whether it be through healthy coping mechanisms or not.
I've found some mindsets/techniques that work for me and wanted to put them into an article, but I wanted to hear from others as well. So, I shared a survey on my instagram story asking people for their coping mechanisms...
It only further cemented the need for us to talk about healthy coping mechanisms because of the few who took part, not one person listed a healthy coping mechanism. It ranged from binge eating 🍔🍫 to suppressing the negative emotions 🤐...personally, I think people deserve to feel better about themselves when facing a "no".
So, dear LinkedIn community (where I am convinced there are people rife with experience when it comes to facing rejection - at least at a career level) won't you be a doll and help me show people there are ways we can go about dealing with rejection that don't involve suppressing emotions by deep diving into pizza 🍕, wine 🍷 or spiralling negative self talk (though I am a fan of the first two in moderation - third one, not so much).
As always, the survey is anonymous 😊
https://lnkd.in/eXNh2Faf
Founder: Sama Health | Mental health for South Asians living in the Middle East 💚 | FI GCC 2023
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