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6 Job Search Tips to Help You Find a Role (and Company) That Won’t Lead to Burnout

By | L’Oreal Thompson Payton | www.themuse.com

Maybe you’ve experienced burnout in your current role and decided to start looking for a new job. First, congrats on taking the necessary steps to care for yourself and your mental health. Next, you’ll need to find a job and environment that won’t lead to burnout all over again. After all, you don’t want this to become a self-perpetuating cycle.

Or maybe you’re doing just fine, but you’re familiar with the dangers associated with burnout and want to continue to avoid it in your next job. Whatever the case, you want to set yourself up to succeed without burning out.

Although the World Health Organization only classified burnout as an occupational phenomenon in May 2019, the phrase has been around since at least 1975, when researchers defined burnout as “failure or exhaustion because of excessive demands on energy, strength, or resources.”

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, which forced so many people to work from home, further exacerbated the rise in employee burnout. Eighty-nine percent of employees across industries, roles, and seniority levels said their work life was getting worse, according to a fall 2020 survey by the American Association of Physician Leadership, and 62% of those who were having trouble with their workloads said they had experienced burnout “often” or “extremely often.” Similarly, a global survey conducted around the same time by workplace inclusion nonprofit Catalyst found that 92.3% of respondents were experiencing some level of burnout, with 57.8% reaching a high level of burnout.

There’s no denying that burnout comes with consequences for your mental, emotional, and sometimes even physical wellbeing. Some signs include exhaustion, feelings of negativity or apathy, and even physical manifestations such as headaches or insomnia. So naturally you’d want to find a role that will allow you to avoid those costs.

The good news is your search isn’t simply up to fate. There are tangible things you can do as you prepare for your next job search to reflect on what it is you specifically need in order to prevent burnout—and to evaluate jobs, managers, teams, and companies accordingly.

1. Understand What Causes Burnout

Acknowledging burnout is an important step, but it’s also important to understand what might’ve gotten you to that point. In a recent keynote address on burnout, Emilie Aries, author, leadership coach, and founder of Bossed Up, which helps women and marginalized people transform their careers, shared four main causes:

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