Odd isn’t it? You have tried to get numerous jobs, been to endless amounts of interviews, which you were sure to get positive results out of, but didn’t. You still are waiting on the unemployment list, but why?

Have you ever thoughto t that maybe the problem is … well … you?!

Most people don’t realize this but they are in fact doing things in their interview or writing things in their resume that are crossing the red line in terms of what they need to do. Basically they are raising signs reading “I’m not your guy!”

Here is a quick list of 10 red flags to beware of not to raise when you are searching for a career, read on…

1. You lack flexibility: If you have standards you want your new job to meet like time-off, benefits, compensation etc. and you are not willing to be a little flexible then you will have a hard time getting along with any of your hiring managers, and therefore your jobs. Bending a little bit could go a long way.

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2. You didn’t provide any references: Most managers like to ask about you before they consider hiring you, so when you don’t add a reference, that will probably leave the manager thinking you don’t know anybody whom you worked with that has anything good to say about you, when you really just didn’t add them.

3. You aren’t prepared for the interview: Before going to do an interview, you need to do your “homework” such as researching the company you are planning to work for, have an interview ready and perform it with someone at home, etc. As easy as it seems, it will make the hiring managers take you a lot more serious.

4. You don’t have any contact information on your resume: Well imagine you did do well and your manager decides to hire you, yippee!! He wants to contact you to call you in, but what? No contact information! How do you expect yourself to get hired if you can’t be found? Provide at least one of the following… 1. Phone Number, 2. Home address, 3. E-mail address.

5. You have been employed to too many jobs in a short period of time: It seems to be the new trend in job searching, job-hopping. It doesn’t seem to lay out a good impression, though. It makes your hiring manager feel as though you aren’t loyal or cannot hold a job for long.

6. You don’t have any positive things to say about your previous job: Aaah, how good it feels telling someone about how “bad word goes here” your boss was, but trust me the new hiring manager is definitely not that person, period. He will imagine what you would do about him to ruin his reputation between other companies if you don’t get along with one another. Besides, there are ways to make a negative comment into a positive one such as, “My old job was not going anywhere!” can be spinned into “I went as far as I could go with my previous job and needed where I could proceed any further.

7. You lack objective: Everyone, whether working or not should have a long-term goal, other than all the short-term ones. Long-term goals might change over time but short-term ones if changed could give the impression that you are a quitter or set goals above your ability, which will only send you to the drain.

8. Your application was only minimally complete: If you only try to do the minimum of what is asked of you, then you will not get very far, whether job-searching or just in life. Your manager will think you are lazy and might be fired too soon to make any good of, then *look at red-flag number six* might occur.

9. You give the interviewer what they want to hear, insincerely: One of the strategies that hiring managers use during hiring is asking the same question in different ways. If you only give one answer for all the forms of this question then he will think you only want to get over with it so you are telling him what he wants to hear. Instead, use his same strategy; give different forms of answers when you are subject to this tactic. He will notice and raise his view of you and take you more seriously and professionally.

10. The dates between the end of one job and the beginning of another are too big: That will immediately pop into the employer’s head the thought “Weren’t you wanted by anyone?” Any gap that is bigger than 2-4 months between two jobs will raise that kind of suspicion, so avoid that.

I really hope you enjoyed my tips and if you learned anything new from this article then please click on that “I like It” button. Good luck on finding your next job!