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…The worst part is everything else.

The best part of job hunting is wish-listing blazers on Net-A-Porter in the interest of interview-readiness...

rawling job sites, cold-calling recruiters, working and reworking your CV until you are screen-blind at midnight, discovering that your application has not been successful “on this occasion” via an email that’s guaranteed to arrive when you’re at your lowest emotional ebb, or nailing the interview only to be ghosted instead of got-back-to-very-soon. And somehow, between each differently painful kind of no-thank-you, you’re meant to be getting out there, networking and knowing exactly what you want. No wonder 60 per cent of respondents to a recent Australian labour study admitted that job hunting can be onerous, less than 40 per cent felt confident about finding the right role and nearly half of participants claimed to feel more despondent the

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