GOD, I’VE SENT ANOTHER CV.

Annex C is amended as follows: The filename is right. Read the email again one last time, correct a word that probably was fine even before and press send. The candidacy's off. Stay and watch the screen like something might happen already.

You spent time telling what you can do. You tried to be precise, interesting, credible. Now your desire to work is inside an inbox you can't see. And tomorrow, when someone asks you if there's anything new, maybe you'll have to say you're waiting again.

You can bring all this into prayer. The work you're looking for, the expenses you're worried about, the desire to be recognized, even the tiredness of having to present you always the best. There is no need to make more spiritual a question about your life.

A resume can't hold you all.

It must be short, readable, suitable for position. It's part of his job. You, however, are wider than the information you can put in those pages: you have learned things that are difficult to summarize, through changes, experienced even in times that do not seem linear.

Waiting can make it hard to remember. A negative response comes on a candidacy and you feel it as a judgment that expands to everything. Or nothing comes, and you find yourself looking for an explanation.

The silence of a company does not tell you all the reasons for the selection. You can consider how to improve an application, ask for a comparison, prepare for an interview. These are concrete steps. You don't need to use them to prove that rejection is entirely your fault.

The desire to work can also become prayer

Psalm 90 compares with time, the fragility of existence and the need for God's help. In verse 17 he asks that the work of hands be firm. It is a plea, not a guarantee that each project will have the desired outcome.

In Catholic perspective, asking for support in job search is a question you can ask God. Prayer does not replace applications, preparation and professional relations. He can accompany you as you face them, letting out even what you usually hide to look confident.

Perhaps today you would say only this: Lord, I would like to have a place where to put to use what I know. I'm tired of waiting, but I still want to try. Help me figure out the next step. These are words that we propose, a trace that you can change.

Hoping can live with double counting

When you're looking for work you're not just waiting for satisfaction. You may need to pay the rent, contribute to the expenses, recover an autonomy. To say that just being positive risks leaving you alone with the most concrete part of the problem.

You can ask for help on a specific point. Reread the curriculum to a competent person, compare yourself on search channels, prepare a presentation together. You can also choose who to tell economic concerns, without having to expose them to every acquaintance who asks how it goes.

If someone loves you, they can be close to you without having a contact to pass you. He can listen to disappointment without telling you right away that his neighbor has gone worse. He can ask you when you prefer to talk about work and when you want to think about something else.

You must not be available at any price

The haste to find a solution can make it difficult to stop at an unclear proposal. You can take the time to read, understand tasks, ask for explanations about conditions. If something is not understandable, seeking a competent opinion is a gesture of attention to your life.

Even the people who help you can respect this space. An offer suggested with affection remains a possibility to be valued, not a debt to be repaid by accepting. The fact that you need to work doesn't make your limitations and responsibilities irrelevant.

In prayer you can ask for lucidity, in addition to the opportunity you hope for. The courage to introduce you and to ask a question. The willingness to learn and the ability to recognize when you need to stop to understand.

Today, after shipping

You can sign the application, note a possible appointment and close the search for a while. Taking a break doesn't erase what you did. Not even checking mail constantly makes an answer faster.

Maybe you'll resume tomorrow with another announcement. Maybe an interview will come. Maybe this wait will last longer than you want, and you'll need to revisit the route with someone. Faith does not allow us to predict the end.

But it can give way to a relationship in which to present yourself without having to convince anyone to hire you. In front of God you can arrive with the resume sent and the words finished. You can say: here I am, this is the day I've had. And from here, with the help you can find, face the next step.