Guest Author: CareerAlley
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“I coulda done this, I coulda done that. But I know I can’t go back ‘Cause now it’s just too late I’m sayin’ shoulda woulda coulda, yeah” – Brian McKnight

I spend a lot of time with vendors, service suppliers and consultants in my job. One consulting firm in particular screwed up a project big time. Cost overruns, unfinished work, stuff that didn’t work at all, you get the picture. And then, to add insult to injury, they wanted more money to finish the work that they should have done for the original boatload of money we paid them. Anyway, I was talking with the sales guy from the consulting company and he went on and on – “we should have done this, we should have done that, we should have communicated early, wah wah wah”. Shoulda, woulda, coulda. Who cares? Move on, you can’t change the past.

So what’s the point? Whatever your reason for looking for a new job, you can’t dwell on what got you here and you can’t worry about what you should have done in your job search. Forget the past, look forward to what you can do and make today the first day of the rest of your job search.
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