Are job interviews causing you stress? In this game-changing episode, career coach Elissa Shuck reveals how one simple mindset shift can transform your entire interview experience.

Discover why being invited to an interview is like being asked to join an impromptu meeting at work - and why this parallel can help you approach interviews with confidence and ease.

Chapters:

00:00 - Introduction

00:48 - Setting the Stage for Career Growth in 2025

03:13 - The Meeting Room Analogy

05:31 - Reframing Interview Invitations

07:58 - Common Interview Mistakes

10:24 - Signs Your Interview is Going Sideways

15:11 - How to Talk About Your Strengths

17:33 - Connecting with Interviewers

20:01 - The Consultant Mindset

24:50 - Mastering Your State Before Interviews

27:15 - Closing Thoughts

Key Discussion Points:

• Why most candidates misunderstand what an interview really is

• How to stop trying to "prove yourself" and instead showcase your natural abilities

• The powerful consultant mindset that can make interviews feel effortless

• Common mistakes that make you appear over- or under-qualified

• A pre-interview technique to boost your critical thinking and authenticity

Whether you're actively job hunting or want to be prepared for future opportunities, this episode provides actionable strategies to help you show up as your best self in interviews. Learn how to guide the narrative while staying genuine, and discover why the fact that you were invited means more than you might think.

🎯 Key Takeaway: When someone invites you to interview, they already see potential in you. Your job isn't to prove yourself - it's to confirm their positive instincts about you.

Connect with Elissa:

• Follow her on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/elissashuck/

• Subscribe to Love Your Work Life podcast

[Episode 175 of Love Your Work Life]

#CareerAdvice #JobInterviews #CareerCoaching #JobSearch #ProfessionalDevelopment #CareerDevelopment #JobSeeker #InterviewTips

In this empowering episode of Love Your Work Life, host Elissa Shuck guides you through practical steps to gain clarity and confidence about your next career move. Whether you're navigating a toxic workplace, planning a career pivot, or dreaming of your ideal job, this episode equips you with actionable exercises to reflect on your career story, uncover its value, and create a roadmap for what’s next. It's time to take control, clarify your path, and start building the future you deserve.

Chapters:

Introduction (00:00)

Transformational coaching to love your work life.

Your Career Story - The Key to Clarity (02:30)

Reflecting on your career history to uncover value.

Practical Exercise - Mapping Your Career (05:15)

Step-by-step guide to capturing your career journey.

Processing Your Feelings About Your Career (07:40)

Shifting from resistance to intentional thinking.

Building Your Personal Job Description (10:00)

Dreaming big to create a vision for your ideal role.

Connecting the Dots for Confidence (12:25)

How clarity fuels your job search success.

Making a Decision and Taking Action (14:50)

The power of commitment to create momentum.

Conclusion and Resources (16:30)

Encouragement to move forward and free resources for career growth.

If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the Love Your Work Life podcast! Share it with someone who could use clarity and confidence in their career journey. For free resources and coaching programs, visit elissashuck-careercoach.com and connect with Elisa on LinkedIn.

Additional Resources:

• Free Career Reflection Guide
• Coaching Programs for Career Advancement
• Follow Elissa on LinkedIn

#CareerClarity, #ConfidenceInCareer, #CareerPivot, #CareerGrowth, #CareerPlanning, #JobSearchTips, #ProfessionalDevelopment, #WorkLifeBalance, #CareerCoaching

In this episode, I discusses the importance of taking action towards your goals and not waiting for perfection. I give you three ways to overcome excuses and achieve your goals: willpower, discipline, and passion.

But how do you conger those up? It's about your thoughts.

Your thought have power to create feelings of motivation and drive.

When you choose thoughts that align with your goals and leverage those thoughts to take action, you can set your sites on something, stop making excuses and get it done!

Takeaways

Perfection in advance of taking action is not possible; waiting for perfection is just an excuse.

Three ways to overcome excuses and achieve your goals: willpower, discipline, and passion.

Choose thoughts that align with your goals and create feelings of motivation and drive.

Leverage these thoughts to take action and make progress towards your goals.

Don't wait for the perfect time or circumstances; start taking action now.

If you're ready to make a change in your career, reach out for a free consultation.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Background

03:11 The Importance of Taking Action

05:06 Three Strategies for Overcoming Excuses

09:56 Harnessing the Power of Thoughts

13:28 Choosing Thoughts that Align with Your Goals

15:26 Don't Wait for Perfection: Start Taking Action Now

16:27 Ready for a Career Change? Schedule a Free Consultation

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

Get free resources on my YouTube Channel

Get access to courses and download career helps on my website and follow me on LinkedIn. Don't forget to subscribe!

Have you ever been on one of those people movers at an airport? The danger there happens when you go on autopilot and allow yourself to just move along without paying attention to what might be ahead. The people mover always comes to an end at some point and if you don't plan for it, the adjustment can cause a bit of a stumble.

Your career can be a bit like that. In today's episode, I talk about how to be proactive instead of reactive, so that you are ready when opportunities arise or disruptions happen. From a practical perspective, it looks like these three things:

1) tracking your accomplishments

2) regularly updating your resume and LinkedIn profile

3) being the CEO of your career

If you do these things, you'll be prepared for and be able to take advantage of whatever happens, instead of it taking advantage of you.

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

Get free resources on my YouTube Channel

Get access to courses and download career helps on my website and follow me on LinkedIn. Don't forget to subscribe!

If you're interviewing a lot, but not getting offers, it could be that you're not getting your message across to the degree that you need. Today I want to teach you a framework I created that is going to help you change up your interviews and build up your story. It's an acronym that is especially helpful for those behavioral interview questions: DRAMA.

D - Dilemma

R - Role

A - Action

M - Metric/More

A - Advantage

Listen in as I teach you how to use this framework to help you understand and remember how to share the value you have in a way that's clear, understandable, and meets the needs that a behavioral question is seeking. With this, you'll be able to feel comfortable and authentic, while still getting your message across in a powerful way.

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

Get free resources on my YouTube Channel

Get access to courses and download career helps on my website and follow me on LinkedIn. Don't forget to subscribe!

Everything that's created starts with a thought, including the evolution of ourselves. In today's episode, I talk about how you can truly become who you want to be. You could have all the resources in the world -- all the knowledge, courses, and Master's Degrees -- but if your thinking stinks, you're never going to achieve your full potential.

Think of your brain like an operating system.

1) Do a "thought download" to identify all the programs running in the background of your mind.

2) Update your operating system with new thoughts that DO serve you

3) Manage your thoughts consistently to keep you on track to the place you want to be.

Start your operating system update with this new thought: "I am worthy."

You are.

Say it to yourself.

Allow to it influence your thinking so that you can start to become the person you want to be.

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

Get free resources on my YouTube Channel

Get access to courses and download career helps on my website and follow me on LinkedIn. Don't forget to subscribe!

What kind of approach do you have when setting a goal for yourself? If it's all just about the goal -- to the point that you won't be happy until you achieve that goal -- all the steps along the way just turn into drudgery and you will be miserable.

Ask yourself: What do I want my life to look like as I work toward this?

In today's episode, I encourage you to appreciate yourself and celebrate the value and energy you're bringing to the process. There is no reason to wait until after you achieve the goal to give yourself happiness and joy and appreciation.

Always look for the good in the process.

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

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If you're in a job search, you are selling.

Everyone is always selling.

Consider this: Any time you influence someone's decision, you just participated in selling and marketing. And the reason people are influenced by marketing messages is the same reason you will get hired.

In today's episode I'm going to show you why this works, and how you are already effortlessly doing it.

A sale is nothing more than a transfer of belief and enthusiasm.

So believe in yourself.

Believe in your unique value.

And believe that your prospective employer will see (and has already seen) your value.

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

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Chances are you're telling yourself some untruths in your job search. But they're not the lies you might think they are...

Have you ever had any of these thoughts?

I don't know

I've tried everything

Nothing is happening

None of these thoughts are the truth and if you indulge them, you won't make progress in your job search or career.

In this week's episode, I talk about how these thoughts are projections of your inner being and how to move past them with questions you must ask yourself.

Don't accept the lies. Be a truth teller to yourself.

Show up as the person you'd like to be.

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

Get free resources on my YouTube Channel

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How do you land a job quickly, with ease, and as stress-free as possible? In this week's special podcast, I'm sharing my recent webinar that introduces the 3 things you must have to have a successful job search:

1) a resume that opens doors

2) a strategy that gets you in front of humans

3) interview skills that showcase your value

With these tools you can make your job search work for you instead of work you over!

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

Get free resources on my YouTube Channel

Get access to courses and download career helps on my website and follow me on LinkedIn. Don't forget to subscribe!

How do you convey your value in an interview? This is an interesting challenge. We are tempted to talk too much, to jam too much information into our answers in an attempt to cover all the bases. This actually has the opposite effect. When you try to be "all the things" all you do is water down your message.

So, just how DO you actually get all your value across (and more!) to the person you're talking to? The solution is simple:

Curiosity.

The number one thing you can do to make a lasting impression in an interview is ask questions. Ask questions from a place of curiosity, helpfulness, and understanding.

You don't need to be the hero in this conversation. Be the consultant. Be the guide. Listen and ask questions all along the way. Paint a picture about what it's like to work with you.

This is so powerful!

You WILL stand apart from other candidates, no doubt about that.

Leader & Team Dynamic Questions

Market Yourself Interview Questions

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

Get free resources on my YouTube Channel

Get access to courses and download career helps on my website and follow me on LinkedIn. Don't forget to subscribe!

You've put in a lot of time submitting online applications, but you're getting no responses. You're starting to think things like, "What am I doing wrong?" You find yourself feeling lonely, inferior, and vulnerable. Those thoughts lead to these feelings, and these feelings are going to lead you to inconsistent action because nobody wants to face feeling that way! It can be really challenging and demoralizing to face a lengthy job search day in and day out.

What if it was actually possible to get job offers in a short amount of time with very few, if any, online applications? I have a game-changing strategy for you.

Reach out to human beings.

There's stuff that happens when you apply online and you don't know what's going on behind the scenes. As a job seeker, you need to be reaching out to people. Today, I'm going to explain how to do this. And if you do this, you will spend far less time and be far more productive in your job search.

You have nothing to lose and everything to gain with this approach.

Push open those doors. Be bold. Reach out to the gate keepers and the people that can move you forward.

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

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Have you ever had this thought that if you could just get in front of someone, you know you would do really well in the interview and you could get the job? If you're not getting interviews, it can only be two things:

1) Your resume isn't working hard enough for you

2) Your job search strategy is off

This week, we're tackling the first issue, your resume - How to get it to work harder, open those doors, give you the opportunity to talk, and help people see your value. A door-opening resume does 3 things:

1) Showcases your value

2) Demonstrates your capacity for contribution

3) Aligns with the roles you're seeking

I know, there's that stat out there that a recruiter only spends 6-7 seconds looking at a resume. When you follow the steps I'm outlining today, you're going to have a document that they will want to READ rather than SKIM. So get out your resume and your favorite pen, and follow along as I take you through the components of a compelling resume from top to bottom. Let's open those doors!

Here is my visual guide to create compelling LinkedIn profile.

For more help with your resume, check out my free resume mini-course.

Resources:

NEW Job Search Field Guide Group Coaching and Course

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Maintaining resilience is crucial in various aspects of life, including job searches, workplace challenges, and personal growth. To cultivate resilience, it is important to focus on positive aspects and set intentions and expectations. The reticular activating system in the brain also helps in this process.

Being curious and asking questions, reframing situations, and identifying what keeps you motivated are effective strategies. Ultimately, prioritizing happiness and creating a fulfilling work life contributes to resilience and overall well-being.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Background

03:17 Resilience in Various Aspects of Life

07:40 Utilizing the Reticular Activating System

10:29 The Role of Thoughts in Building Resilience

13:23 Strategies for Maintaining Resilience

16:15 Prioritizing Happiness and Work Life

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

Get free resources on my YouTube Channel

Get access to courses and download career helps on my website and follow me on LinkedIn. Don't forget to subscribe!

Staying "up" for your job search can feel like a never ending battle. Words like, grind, willpower and discipline come to mind. But willpower comes and goes. What if it was possible to create the kind of state you need to keep going anytime you want?

In this week's episode, I teach you how grit (passion + perseverance), flow (presence, productivity and creativity) and grace (simple, effortless movement) can be created like turning on a faucet.

All in a way that works for YOU!

Your thoughts are the way to creating everything you need to land a job or advance your career.

Pick a new thought (or a few).

Rehearse, practice and believe those thoughts ahead of time with as much imagination and emotion as possible. Believe it until you feel it. Then act on the feeling so you can take the actions required to create the result. Also known as landing the job or elevating your career.

If you want to learn more about grit, check out Angela Duckworth.

Get the scoop on flow from Steven Kotler

Listen to The Life Coach School podcast episode 157 (Thought Creation) by my coach, Brooke Castillo.

Enjoy!

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

Get free resources on my YouTube Channel

Get access to courses and download career helps on my website and follow me on LinkedIn. Don't forget to subscribe!

There will always be lack, there will always be "never enough" or "not quite there" when you all you can think about is what's missing. This is a problem! The reason this is a problem is because what's going on in your mind is what you experience in your reality. In today's episode, I talk about the solution to this problem and why you must fix it.

The human brain is wired by default to look for what's wrong. This is why training your mind is one of the most -- if not THE MOST -- important things you can do to navigate life. When you are intentional with your mindset, your overall message about your value will speak for itself. Acknowledge your accomplishments. Embrace that you are enough and you are worthy.

Use [this free worksheet]to reveal and explore your accomplishments.

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

Get free resources on my YouTube Channel

Get access to courses and download career helps on my website and follow me on LinkedIn. Don't forget to subscribe!

No one's life is going to be baggage free -- not physically, not metaphorically. We all have to deal with it and learn how to manage it. And if you don't manage your baggage in a job search, it will hurt you in a number of ways.

Today I'm going to identify the stuff that tends to drag us down in a job search, talk about how those things will hurt you in your search, and teach you how to manage them by asking yourself the right questions and keeping your thoughts where they need to be.

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

Get free resources on my YouTube Channel

Get access to courses and download career helps on my website and follow me on LinkedIn. Don't forget to subscribe!

In Make Your Move part 1, you learned that simply observing what's going on in your career or job search changes your result. In part 2, you learned motivation techniques so you can create the kind of action and attitude you need.

Now in Make Your Move Part 3, I'm sharing the three things you need to make it happen... a great resume, a strategy that gets you in front of people and interview skills that show "them" what it's like to work with you.

It's a lot easier to make it happen than you might think. Listen in so you can get unstuck and make your move!

Here's the TED article I mention.

If you want a resume that keeps you out of the application black hole, get access to my free resume mini-course complete with worksheets and templates to help you showcase your awesomeness!

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

Get free resources on my YouTube Channel

Get access to courses and download career helps on my website and follow me on LinkedIn. Don't forget to subscribe!

How do you springboard from observation into motivation so that it's actually leading you to a better destination? In Part 2 of this 3-part series, I've put together some thoughts on motivation that I want to share with you, and some guidance on how you can create motivation through leverage.

Leverage is using both pain and pleasure to create motivation for yourself. Here are few pain/pleasure questions to ask yourself to create this leverage:

Pain-associating questions:

• “What will this cost me?”

• “What has it cost me in the past?”

• “What is it costing the people I love?”

• “What is it costing me in (lifestyle, opportunity, family, etc.)?”

Pleasure-associating questions:

• “If I change this now, how will my life be?”

• “What will I gain?”

• “What will it mean for the people I love?”

• “What will it give me?”

You can go back to these questions over and over again to maintain the leverage and motivation you've created. Without motivation, none of those amazing plans and goals you've made will really matter. Any kind of meaningful change in your life or in your career is underpinned by motivation.

LYWL Episode 9: Running Away From the Past versus Running Towards the Future

The very first step to making your move starts with taking some time to observe your thoughts, your career, and where you are today. In this first part of a three-part series, I'm going to give you tools to help you look for evidence and start changing the meaning you've assigned to your past, so that you can measure it as success instead of measuring it as failure. In doing so, success will become an inevitable part of your future.

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

Get free resources on my YouTube Channel

Get access to courses and download career helps on my website and follow me on LinkedIn. Don't forget to subscribe!

Don't think I'm crazy, but I have found some really great parallels between Journey's music and your career. There are a few song titles that really stand out to me as being part of the career journey, and I want to share them with you today. How does this play into a career journey in the more conventional sense? Let's talk about that, too.

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

Get free resources on my YouTube Channel

Get access to courses and download career helps on my website and follow me on LinkedIn. Don't forget to subscribe!

A recent report shared that there are 58 million companies on LinkedIn, and more than 15 million job posts. There are a lot of jobs out there, so why is finding a great job such a challenge for so many people? I've narrowed it down to 3 areas that I really do believe affect your ability to find great jobs.

Today I'm going to give you some really detailed suggestions to help you find those great jobs:

1) practical & tactical use of LinkedIn

2) strategic & targeted approach to create focus

3) intentional & positive self-talk

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

Get free resources on my YouTube Channel

Get access to courses and download career helps on my website and follow me on LinkedIn. Don't forget to subscribe!

If you're having trouble marketing yourself in interviews, you could have the best resume on the planet and you still won't get job offers. There are two pieces to marketing yourself and today I'm going to walk you through them.

First, the three levels of problem-solving:

1) the physical level

2) the emotional level

3) the philosophical level

Organize your answers to interview questions in a way that addresses all three levels.

Second, the Belief Triad:

1) belief in yourself

2) belief in your value

3) belief in the other person

The reason people buy things is because it will make their life easier and better, and the psychology behind hiring is exactly the same. Don't think of marketing yourself as a salesy, inauthentic thing -- it's a way to show someone that by hiring you, you can make their life easier and better. Believe that you can be their solution, and believe that they will see your value and take action.

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

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If you're getting lots of interviews, but no offers, something is going sideways in those interviews. Everyone has a story going on in their brains during the interview process, and today I'm going to teach you how to answer that key question: "Tell me about yourself."

You can take charge of the narrative right from the beginning of the interview with how you answer this one question, and it is such an easy and powerful fix!

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

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I n this conversation, I discuss strategies for dealing with toxic workplaces. I walk you through now confidence comes from your thoughts, not external validation or accomplishments. I also share my personal experiences with toxic work environments and offer tips and strategies for managing them.

I also highlight the importance of regaining confidence and clarity about your value, maintaining resilience and impact, and making decisions and moving forward. You'll also learn about my coaching program, Make Your Move, which helps individuals navigate toxic workplaces and make successful career transitions.

Takeaways

- Confidence comes from your thoughts, not external validation or accomplishments.

- To manage a toxic workplace, focus on regaining confidence and clarity about your value.

- Maintain resilience and impact by looking for positive aspects, setting intentions and expectations, and using your reticular activating system.

- Make decisions and move forward by managing your thoughts, brainstorming ideas, and evaluating your reasons.

- Consider seeking support from a career coach to navigate toxic workplaces and make successful career transitions.

Sound Bites

"Confidence comes from your thoughts"

"Toxic environments can diminish your self-esteem"

"Choose your attitude in any given circumstance"

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and the Role of Thoughts in Confidence

05:01 Recognizing and Dealing with Toxic Workplaces

11:37 Maintaining Resilience and Impact

31:26 Navigating Toxic Workplaces and Career Transitions

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

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Are you viewing some of your past as an obstacle for doing what you want to do? If you're feeling confused about how to leverage your career history and accomplishments towards something new, I want to encourage you today.

There are so many ways for you to express your skills, strengths, and abilities in jobs. These are the common threads that you will see throughout your career when you start looking for them, and today I'm giving you some tools to help you start looking:

1) decide that nothing is wasted - no part of your career history is a waste

2) look for the common threads - you will start to see possibilities and the potential for yourself going forward

Rob Bell's audio book: https://robbell.com/audio/handling-your-fire-passion-burnout-routines-and-resilience/

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

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Interview prep is vital for planning what you're going to say, how you're going to say it, and today's topic: the questions you're going to ask. You can be strategic and give yourself even more opportunity to share your value when you ask great questions.

Why ask questions? To get information, to get more context, to showcase your skills, and also to show the person who's interviewing you that you're curious, that you care, and that you're seeing a bigger picture. Today I'm going to teach you some great questions you can ask in interviews.

Market Yourself Interview Questions

Good Leader + Good Team Questions

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

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You're doing the things you need to do. You're setting boundaries, you're scheduling activity, obeying your schedule, showing up for yourself with rest and self-care. Why do you still feel burnt out?

Today I'm going to share a few thoughts that I learned from Rob Bell about some other things that could be going on under the surface.

1) The "Something to Prove" Approach - "This is supposed to be hard, otherwise it's not real."

2) The Sense of Obligation - "This is my wheelhouse, I can't look outside of it."

3) The Label - "I need to be associated with -that- industry in order for people to take me seriously."

4) The Ladder - "I've got to do the corporate climb, because that's the thing to do."

5) The "Too Much" Feeling - "I've got to do All The Things, I've got to show up, this is the way it's got to be done."

You can notice and manage these signals before they get out of hand so that you can move past those feelings, get out of that mode, and take the action you want to take.

Rob Bell's audio book: https://robbell.com/audio/handling-your-fire-passion-burnout-routines-and-resilience/

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

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Second guessing and questioning is one thing, being a curious and compassionate watcher of our brains is something else.

In this episode I talk about the distinction between second-guessing yourself and being a curious watcher of your brain. I will teach you a very simple way to manage second-guessing and how to instead love the decisions you make in your career and in your life.

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

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How do you know if fear of failure is in play? Have you stopped producing? Stopped progressing? Are you staying in your comfort zone?

To do the things that you want to do, to be willing to put yourself out there for the sake of your dream job, you have to be willing to risk failure.

In this episode, I give you some tips for how to manage your fear of failure. Choose to go through any discomfort required to get the job you want. Believe that you are worth the risk. Face your fear. Decide discomfort is okay. Do the next thing.

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

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We all prepare for interviews by doing company research and practicing answers to interview questions, but how can you prepare yourself so that you enter each interview with confidence, ease, and certainty?

In this episode, I'm going to teach you the steps to interview with confidence every single time.

Three steps immediately before the interview:

1) doubt download -get out negative thoughts

2) rank yourself - how you feel about your qualifications

3) favorite accomplishment - write it down in as much detail as possible

Bonus step immediate after the interview:

4) simple evaluation - give yourself feedback

Get access to my interview prep worksheet so you can be your best during your next interview ::

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

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If you're ready to get back to work, if you're ready to finally get a job that feels happy, or if you're really ready to land that new challenge, let me encourage you to put the Three C's of Job Search Success to work for you and watch what happens next.

In this episode, we're diving into the Three C's and how you can use them to create success in your job search and your career:

1) Clarity - know your value

2) Constraint - focus your search

3) Consistency - commit to action

www.elissashuck-careercoach.com/job-search-under-the-radar

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

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Change and disruption will happen, and we all feel the same when it is thrust upon us. These disruptions are an opportunity to either move forward or to get stuck.

In this episode, I'll walk you through the four possible reasons your job search is taking too long:

• Resentment
• Resume
• Strategy
• Interview Skills

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

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You're ready, you're looking, but nothing seems right or feels good. Are you finding yourself saying things like:

"Nothing is there."

"I can't find a job to apply for."

"What if there's nothing available for me?"

In this episode, I'll teach you how to:

• Override protective, primitive thinking
• Target the perfect role for yourself
• Turn your thoughts toward what you want
• Create a better sense of possibility

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

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This episode references the work of Stephen Covey and his book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and leveraging your brain power to create a career vision because what we want in life is always created in our minds first.

• Learn how to use self-awareness and observation to influence your job search strategy so you can find the jobs you want
• Create a resume that is relevant to your career goal
• Interview in such a way that you are able to think, feel, and act as if you already have the job

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

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All the tools, platforms, tech and gamification in the world will never provide an ROI unless effective, influential communication is at the heart of everything you do... human to human.

In this episode, I discuss the importance of effective communication in leadership and provides strategies for middle managers to improve their communication skills. You'll learn the role of communication in building trust, resolving conflicts, and fostering engagement and productivity.

I also highlight the significance of leadership presence and impact, including nonverbal communication, emotional intelligence, and strategic storytelling. You'll also learn about my new program, Strategic Leadership Lab, which offers a comprehensive approach to developing leadership communication skills.

Listen now so you can take your communication to a new level, transforming how you lead so you can influence your team and managers above you with confidence and authority.

Takeaways

- Effective communication is essential for solving problems and improving team dynamics in the workplace.

- Building trust and credibility through consistent actions, transparency, and ethical behavior is crucial for effective leadership communication.

- Leadership presence and impact can be enhanced through nonverbal communication, emotional intelligence, and strategic storytelling.

- Strategic Leadership Lab is a program that helps middle managers develop their leadership communication skills and become influential leaders.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Leadership Communication

09:03 Foundations for Effective Communication

13:14 Building Trust and Credibility

28:29 Introducing Strategic Leadership Lab

Ready to level up your leadership skills?

1. Develop clear, effective communication strategies to inspire and motivate your team.

2. Master the art of influence and persuasion to drive organizational success.

3. Gain confidence in your decision-making abilities and lead with conviction.

4. Cultivate a positive and productive work environment that fosters innovation.

It all happens inside Strategic Leadership Lab. An exclusive cohort where you get unparalleled support as a middle management leader.

If you've ever wondered why you ever got into management in the first place, Strategic Leadership Lab will help you feel secure, accomplished, and in control.

Click below to get started

https://www.elissashuck-careercoach.com/strategic-leadership-lab

Job seekers often get anxiety talking about areas that they don’t excel in or aren’t as experienced in. We can’t help it if we aren’t 100% qualified for each and every position we apply to.

In this episode, I’ll teach you how to ease friction with any area that you lack qualifications in. You’ll learn how to craft a thoughtful and authentic response that keeps you in consideration during the interview.

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

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How you answer key questions at the beginning and end of an interview can be crucial to your success in the job search. I like to refer to these as interview bookends – and most people don’t know how to approach them.

In this episode, we’ll break down each question and get some insight into the hiring manager’s perspective. You’ll discover what to include in your responses (as well as what not to include) and how to present it all in a way that is authentic and compelling.

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

https://calendly.com/elissa-shuck-career-coach/possibility-session-with-elissa-shuck

Get free resources on my YouTube Channel

Get access to courses and download career helps on my website and follow me on LinkedIn. Don't forget to subscribe!

Being in a toxic work environment doesn't only affect us in the workplace, but it can negatively impact our personal lives and our search for a new job.  Because of this, it is on us to identify our purpose in our current situation so we don't carry that with us to the next role.

In this episode, I uncover the steps to find and access your sense of purpose at work. You'll discover the exact actions you can take today to identify the behaviors that underpin specific activities. These behaviors are the key to unlocking your purpose.

Resources:

NEW Job Search Field Guide Group Coaching and Course

Free Resume Mini-course

YouTube Video – How to Explore Jobs On LinkedIn

More information about me, visit the site, and don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!

The job search can be seen as a microcosm of our own life. We have to stay consistent, set goals, take action, and stick to the plan to name a few parallels. As I’ve mentioned before, it’s important to focus on what we can control in our job search. 

In this episode, we’ll dive into how to use higher-level thinking to stay in control to keep showing up in your job search. You’ll discover how to remove emotion, and stick to the math to apply to the job that is right for you. 

Resources:

NEW Job Search Field Guide Group Coaching and Course

Free Resume Mini-Course

YouTube Video – How to Explore Jobs On LinkedIn

More information about me, check out my website, and don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!

It's true that the greatest lessons in life can come from our hardest moments. The most difficult thing to do in those moments is to recognize that they exist to help us get better. Throughout your career, you will experience these moments but it is on you to build the resilience to face them head-on. As I've mentioned before, we can use our thoughts and emotions to guide us when we face tough times.

In this episode, you'll discover the 5 steps to create career resilience. I cover how to develop a deep self-awareness of your value, how to articulate your own behaviors to yourself and others, how to appreciate your past successes and failures, are more.

Resources:

Career Workbook

Resume Template 

Free Resume Mini-course

Career Direction Worksheets

Transferable Skills Discovery Worksheet

YouTube Video – How to Explore Jobs On LinkedIn

Visit the Teachable Here to learn how to market yourself in the job search, stay out of the job seeker 'black hole', and more!

More information about myself on the site, and don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!

Let's face it, we've all had opportunities for growth throughout our careers whether we knew it in the moment or not. As you've listened to the show, you've heard me encourage you to focus on those things that are under your own control. It turns out that growth is one of those things. Consistent growth is possible, but not without conscious effort.

In this episode, you'll discover the 7 steps to achieve career-wide growth. The career growth path includes the power of the next action, doing versus trying, the power of the first step, facing rejection, and more.

Resources:

Rejection Episode

Career Workbook

Resume Template 

Free Resume Mini-course

Career Direction Worksheets

Transferable Skills Discovery Worksheet

YouTube Video – How to Explore Jobs On LinkedIn

Visit the Teachable Here to learn how to market yourself in the job search, stay out of the job seeker 'black hole', and more!

More information about myself on the site, and don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!

As we step into the new year, many of us are becoming aware of our own actions that aren't serving us. For those who are still in jobs they're not happy with, it can be difficult to figure out exactly how to get out. It turns out that working in a job we hate can cost us more than we recognize.

In this episode, you'll discover the real impact of a terrible job and the side effects that come along with it. Learn how to help yourself, transform the exit from a 'want' to a 'must', and finally, how to create leverage to switch your mindset by putting yourself in your future-self's position.

Resources:

"Running away from the Past" Episode

Career Workbook

Resume Template 

Free Resume Mini-course

Career Direction Worksheets

Transferable Skills Discovery Worksheet

YouTube Video – How to Explore Jobs On LinkedIn

Visit the Teachable Here to learn how to market yourself in the job search, stay out of the job seeker 'black hole' and more!

More information about myself on the site, and don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!

Every article you read, or post you see offers a different piece of advice about the 'key' to your job search. It turns out that the way you approach your job search is the biggest determining factor in your success. As I've mentioned before, you have to plan your results. There is no single factor that will get you there, it's about building the right philosophy, and taking action.

In this episode, you'll discover how to prioritize effort over hustle, how to embody the feeling of success, and the importance of belief when it comes to attaining the position of your dreams.

Resources:

Career Workbook

Career Direction Worksheets

Resume Template 

Free Resume Mini-course

Transferable Skills Discovery Worksheet

YouTube Video – How to Explore Jobs On LinkedIn

Visit the Teachable Here to learn how to market yourself in the job search, stay out of the job seeker 'black hole', and more!

More information about myself on the site, and don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!

When you're in job search mode it can be difficult to be grateful for what you already have because you're in the constant pursuit of your next position. It turns out that focusing on what we have now and being grateful for it can keep us motivated and realistic throughout our search. Being this is the first episode of the new year, I've included a quote to set ourselves on a path of gratitude.

In this episode, you'll discover how to be grateful for your career. I include specific questions to expand on your challenges, losses and wins to go deeper with your answers. In addition, I help you give yourself credit for what you've accomplished already, and finally, I share my own experience getting demoted in a retail job, and how that shifted my perspective years later.

Resources:

How to Handle a Difficult Boss (article)

Career Workbook

Career Direction Worksheets

Resume Template 

Free Resume Mini-course

Transferable Skills Discovery Worksheet

YouTube Video – How to Explore Jobs On LinkedIn

Visit the Teachable Here to learn how to market yourself in the job search, stay out of the job seeker 'black hole' and more!

More information about myself on the site, and don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!

We've all felt inexperienced in one way or another, but when you're underqualified on paper, it can be difficult for employers to notice your value and your ability to grow. It's more about understanding what applies and doesn't apply from your previous experience, and then using that to make it easy for a hiring manager to understand your future value.

In this episode, you'll discover how to identify and frame your transferrable skills for a new role. I cover what to look for in job descriptions to uncover inside language, how to leverage your behavioral strengths to stand out, and how to include your accolades in the right way to give the hiring manager that 'ah ha' moment that solidifies you as the right candidate.

Resources:

Career Workbook

Career Direction Worksheets

Resume Template 

Free Resume Mini-course

Transferable Skills Discovery Worksheet

YouTube Video – How to Explore Jobs On LinkedIn

Visit the Teachable Here to learn how to market yourself in the job search, stay out of the job seeker 'black hole', and more!

More information about myself on the site, and don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!

In this episode, I discuss the challenges of doing more with less in the workplace, including issues related to layoffs, siloed communication, and the need for the right people in the right roles. It's super important to set job performance expectations, specifically around being open to learning and sharing knowledge, to overcome these challenges and create a more interdependent team culture.

Takeaways

• Challenges of doing more with less in the workplace are common and can be attributed to layoffs, siloed communication, and the need for the right people in the right roles.
• Setting job performance expectations around being open to learning and sharing knowledge can help create a more interdependent team culture and overcome workplace challenges.

• Instituting job performance expectations of being open to learning and sharing knowledge can lead to improved team dynamics and reduce the stress of knowledge loss when employees leave.

Chapters

00:00 - Challenges of Doing More with Less in the Workplace

02:28 - The Importance of the Right People in the Right Roles

09:32 - Setting Job Performance Expectations for Success

Ready to level up your leadership skills?

1. Develop clear, effective communication strategies to inspire and motivate your team.

2. Master the art of influence and persuasion to drive organizational success.

3. Gain confidence in your decision-making abilities and lead with conviction.

4. Cultivate a positive and productive work environment that fosters innovation.

It all happens inside Strategic Leadership Lab. An exclusive cohort where you get unparalleled support as a middle management leader.

If you've ever wondered why you ever got into management in the first place, Strategic Leadership Lab will help you feel secure, accomplished, and in control.

Click below to get started

https://www.elissashuck-careercoach.com/strategic-leadership-lab

It turns out that reciting your long history of experience isn't the best way for an interviewer to identify if you're the perfect person for a role. As you know from previous episodes, it's more about how you frame what you've done, and more importantly, how you frame what you'll be able to do for a prospective employer.

In this episode, you'll discover the reason why someone would be considered over-qualified, how to strategize to explain your experience the right way, and how to apply these concepts to actually get hired.

Resources:

Career Direction Worksheets

Resume Template 

Free Resume Mini-course

Transferable Skills Discovery Worksheet

YouTube Video – How to Explore Jobs On LinkedIn

Visit the Teachable Here to learn how to market yourself in the job search, stay out of the job seeker 'black hole' and more!

More information about myself on the site, and don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!

We've heard of the classic case of the 'Mondays', but what about the 'Thursdays'?

If you're in the job search you know what I'm talking about. Due to my research with myself and my clients, I've found that our motivation and positivity wavers as the week goes on.

In this episode, I'll help you discover the 4 ways to survive and thrive in your job search and eliminate any case of the 'Thursdays'. I'll give you the Thursday game plan to crush every Thursday. In addition, I break down the typical weekly job search schedule and why it's not working, and how to make a results list versus a to-do list.

Resources:

Job Search Survival Guide

Career Direction Worksheets

Resume Template 

Free Resume Mini-course

Transferable Skills Discovery Worksheet

YouTube Video – How to Explore Jobs On LinkedIn

Visit the Teachable Here to learn how to market yourself in the job search, stay out of the job seeker 'black hole', and more!

More information about myself on the site, and don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!

It can be so easy to get caught up in our thoughts and identity and lose focus of the reality we're actually living in. Many of us undervalue our goals and overvalue our thoughts.

In this episode, you'll discover how to consciously control what you think about yourself, and how that can cause a night and day difference in your results. I'll cover motivation, the exact formula to prepare your mind to create actual results in the job search, and the systems involved in your brain that make this happen.

Resources:

Interview Prep Worksheet

Career Direction Worksheets

Resume Template 

Free Resume Mini-course

Transferable Skills Discovery Worksheet

YouTube Video – How to Explore Jobs On LinkedIn

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