I'm very unsatisfied and unhappy of my career. I'm trying to find a new job and a career path but I feel like some negativity is blocking me from finding a job and I keep getting turned down. What would you recommend to boost my luck in being successful at progressing onto interviews and hopefully getting a new job soon? Maybe some stones or spells or prayers that could help? :confused:
I think that what's going to help is going to depend a lot on what you're hunting for - different fields have different priorities, for example.
First, if you're not already reading good solid job hunting advice, that's a good place to start (there's a ton of lousy stuff out there!) I've read Ask A Manager (
http://askamanager.org) for years, and there's a great community there with lots of advice on specific situations, fields, etc. (A lot of people are in the US, but there's also a reasonably strong international contingent, and the open threads on Fridays are a good place to ask specific questions about what works in a particular field or country.)
I'd also look closely at the customs of the career you'd like to move into - there's a ton of places where what works for one field comes across very differently in another field. (i.e. stuff that's normal in one may read as way too pushy or aggressive in another, or in one field, explaining specific background may be expected, and in another, it'd be too much detail.)
If you know you want to change careers, but not which one, that may be coming across in applications and you might be losing out to people who are more clear on what they want or already have significant experience.
Divination, meditation, etc. can be helpful as magical actions to help you be able to refine this, and come up with ways to express "I'm interested in moving into X field because I want to do more Y" sincerely (i.e. short things you can say in cover letters or applications that make it clear you've thought about the field, what your existing skills would add, etc. not just that you're applying for random jobs.)
And of course, having a great resume ready to go that was clear and easy to review, but also informative, and figuring out how to write really great cover letters both matter in a lot of fields.
For me, the most successful magic for job hunting, after I got all that together involved the following:
1) Magical working to detail what I wanted and charge that intention.I did this by doing some ritual art that had words and symbols representing what I wanted in my next job, and then coming up with a phrase that represented the basics (what I did was "right job, right people, right place, right circumstances" which was short hand for 'job in my chosen field that uses my skills, with people who will treat me well and let me grow professionally and do great things, in a place I will enjoy working, and with salary, benefits, and other details that work for me and my specific needs.")
I'd repeat the phrase a lot in my head as I was job hunting, and it was good to have a really basic touchstone to remind me what was important.
2) Some magical work to help me be open to opportunitiesI did a lot of practical stuff to make sure potential likely jobs came to my notice (bookmarked a bunch of job pages in my field for different locations I might want to live in, etc.) but I also did some magical work around just being open to possibilities, to paying attention if I heard something, to being willing to take a chance on something that I wasn't sure I could do.
(My current job, which I've been in for nearly 2 years is a really unique position, and not one I would ever have said "that's what I want to do" but it fits all my requirements and then some, and I'm pretty sure the magical work helped me navigate through 'wait, can I do that, it involves a subject area I don't know much about' (I'm a librarian, in a very specialised library, but they were, it turns out, hiring for someone who could pick up the content fast, which I've done, not someone who already knew it.))
3) Magical work to reinforce the me I wanted to present in cover letters and interviewsMostly, I do this via playlists of music, plus things like meaningful-to-me desktop backgrounds for my computers and phones (not necessarily anything obviously Pagan, just things that remind me.).
However, thinking about things like interview clothing, presentation, in advance etc. is also usually part of this. (That doesn't mean super-corporate, I don't want those jobs, but I pick my interview stuff to read 'geeky librarian who isn't afraid to get down on the floor to fix a computer thing under the desk, but who also can stand up and do a formal presentation without stressing'.) That way, when I've gotten the interviews, it's just a matter of having things clean and ready to go.
This is also a place where wearing a piece of charged magical jewelry can help a lot. My last job hunt went from "I'm sort of idly looking" to "No, I really need to get out of here" rather abruptly, and right around that time, good friends went to New Zealand on a trip and came home and mailed me a piece of jewelry they'd gotten there, and I wore it every day until I got my current job. (If I was at an interview, I looped it around a bra strap and tucked it into the side of my bra, since it wasn't an interview sort of jewelry.) Wearing it both reminded me my friends were really rooting for me (not just them!) but also what my goal was.
4) A thing I didn't do: magic for specific jobs.That's because I feel about it like I would about magic for a relationship with a specific person: even leaving aside the question of ethics, I want the right job for me, not what I think is the right job for me, based on often limited info during the application and interview process. There are a lot of jobs out there that look like the might be good for me, but actually have factors that would make them anywhere from not-good to actively harmful. I would like to avoid those!
So my magical work has focused on 'help me find the place where I can do really good work and that is also good for me in the ways I need a job to be'.
Related, I'd do magical work for interviews to help me present my best self (clarity of thought and expression, for example), but not to otherwise try and nudge or influence them to pick me. Just give them my best self, and recognise that my best self is not the right fit for many people and many jobs, and that I want to know that before I start a new job, change my life significantly, etc.
I don't view rejections as a problem, in that sense, so much as "Ok, that is not a good job for me, let's go try something else." (Though of course, the practical issues of applying, etc. take a toll.)