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By Amy Lindgren

For the AJC

If you’re feeling sluggish about your job search, it’s possible you’ve gotten de-motivated somewhere along the way. By way of offering a self-help tutorial, I’ll list here the 10 most common de-motivators that I observe in job seekers. If any apply to you, start troubleshooting! Because one thing’s for sure: You won’t get far in job search without motivation.

De-motivator No. 1: Discouraging labor statistics. The last couple of years have been extraordinary in the emergence of numbers-based reporting on the jobs issue. At base, these numbers are most helpful to corporations, governments and other entities that use the information in longer-term planning. In my opinion, job seekers are not as well-served by the data since they can’t actually use it; but they are certainly impacted psycholo……….. continues on Atlanta Journal Constitution.