For a lot of us, there comes a time when we feel like we've reached a plateau, hit a dead end and ask ourselves, "Is this all there is?"

Sometimes it's a fleeting feeling. A new challenge comes along, you go after it and you're good.

But what if it's a nagging feeling. One that pops up during meetings and on Sunday nights. No matter how much you ignore it or push it down, it always re-surfaces. If you don't deal with it, you'll eventually be living what Henry David Thoreau calls "a life of quiet desperation."

I don't want you living that way, my friend. The solution to that feeling is to listen and lead.

Listen by acknowledging the sentences in your brain, have better conversations with yourself. Then lead by creating a vision for yourself, your career and your role on your team.

This week's episode will help you get unstuck and start to see yourself based on where you can go instead of where you are.

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• 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

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It is stormy out there, my friends, and I'm not talking about the weather. If you're finding yourself in the middle of a workplace storm -- be it a sudden one, or ongoing bad weather -- this is for you.

I'm reminded of those thunder shirts you can get for your pet to help them stay calm during a physical storm. What would it look like to have a thunder shirt for your thought process when you find yourself in a stormy situation? I want to share some tips with you today to help you ride it out.

1) Be present with your own thoughts

2) Be gentle with yourself

3) Focus on what you can control: YOU

With this strategic approach, you will be able to rise to the occasion in ways you didn't even think possible, because you ARE capable! You CAN ride the storm out, and you can come out BETTER on the other side.

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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 ::

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• 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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Did you have an idea at the beginning of the year about where you'd be and what you'd be doing now?

Did you think this is the year I'm going to [fill in the blank] but you still find yourself doing the job you said you would leave, working in the toxic environment or not going for that promotion? This episode is for you.

You'll learn how to get what you want in your career by:

• Acknowledging possibilities and desire
• Making decisions
• Taking action

"Excuses are just a way of avoiding decision and letting yourself off the hook. Confusion is always a lie and way to avoid taking action." ~ Elissa Shuck EP83

If you find yourself stuck in excuses and confusion the process you learn in this episode will help you FINALLY make your move.

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 here, you're in the midst of adversity. And I'm here to tell you that you can not only overcome it, but you can actually learn some things about yourself and make some really important decisions about your career. Right now, in the midst of adversity! And those decisions will change the trajectory of your career for the better from this point forward.

In today's episode, I'm going to teach you exactly what to do to get yourself on the road to success by walking you through some specific, practical things you can do including:

-Questions to ask yourself

-Mindset to set yourself up for success

-Avoiding pitfalls in adversity

-Power sentences

I'm not some weird unicorn to get the results I've gotten. If I can do it, you can, too. I believe in 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

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A career is kind of like a relationship. Good times. Tough times. Even break ups!

But just like a relationship, it's possible to have a career that's vital, engaged and even abundant. If you're not experiencing that kind of career, ask yourself these questions:

• How much quality time do I spend on my craft?
• What am I investing today that will give me a future positive ROI?
• Who am I deciding to be? Is it intentional or going through the motions?

When you're paying attention to your career and investing in it like you would any important relationship in your life, you'll see possibilities and experience longevity no matter what kind of challenges you face.

Listen to this week's episode and learn practical ways to create career abundance.

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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Today's episode is a special treat. Listen in on a recent webinar with Gated Talent about the power of asking questions during your interview.

Asking questions during an interview might be the most under-rated part of an interview. YES! You get to ask questions.

Make asking questions part of your interview strategy because an interview is your opportunity to evaluate the company and role for their fit to you as much as their determination of your fit for the position and culture.

The questions you ask provide you with information.

Your questions are also another way to showcase your skills and experience.

Biggest benefit to asking questions?

It creates the desired conversational nature of interviews that makes everyone involved more comfortable (and more like real-life people talking).

Best of all, when you ask questions you're opening up the door to share more of what makes you an awesome candidate.

It’s the perfect way to demonstrate what it’s like to work with 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

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One of the biggest mistakes you can make in interviews is talking about yourself -- when you make it all about YOU, that is!

Today I'm giving you the tools to talk about yourself in a way that will be relatable, engaging, and help the other person see you in the role. One of the best tools is curiosity.

Decide going in that you're there to listen, learn, and offer help. Talk about yourself in a way that is inquisitive and seeking information. Use this list of questions to uncover pain points and provide yourself opportunities to share how you can help.

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 do you break out of feeling "stuck" in your career or job search? To put it simply, you identify new opportunities and take action.

Sometimes, though, that can sound a lot easier than it actually is. Why? What is making something so apparently simple, so difficult? Well, there are likely things that are working against you -- your thoughts and behavior patterns. You can't just willpower your way out of them all the time, can you?

The problem there is that our brains are always looking for evidence to prove what we are thinking is true. Today I want to challenge you to interrupt your UNINTENTIONAL thoughts that aren't serving you, that are keeping you stuck, by asking yourself some INTENTIONAL questions. Questions like:

"Is this actually true?"

"Is this a self-imposed limitation?"

"What if the opposite was true?"

Select new thoughts that serve you better, then practice them by writing them down and repeating them to yourself every day. When you start intentionally looking for evidence that these new thoughts are true, you'll create a habit in your brain to keep looking for that evidence and that feeling of being stuck is going to go away.

The one thing you can control is your thoughts, and the really good news is this: Thoughts create results!

It can feel like there is an overwhelming number of things to do in Job Search Mode. But the solution to managing All The Things is simple: focus on Just One.

In this current moment, there is only ONE thing that you need to be doing. Don't get stuck thinking about anything else -- let that stuff happen when it happens. Today I want to talk about how to break your job search into steps and figure out what is the One Thing you need to be doing right now. Let's take a look at some of those things:

1) define your accomplishments and strengths

2) construct a resume

3) research roles and companies

4) reach out directly to recruiters

5) interview prep and company research

Just do one thing at a time. Step 1 will always lead to Step 2 but you don't have to worry about Step 2 -- or Step 18 -- until it happens! Don't get stuck on that hamster wheel. This strategy will make your life so much easier and take so much stress out of your job search, trust me!

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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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Too many times we go into interviews devaluing ourselves. Just think-- if you already had the job, what would your mindset and behavior look like?

In today's episode, I'm giving you some specific questions you can ask in interviews to flip the script in your mind. Because an interview is not just about them evaluating you. Don't leave all the question-asking to them! You must evaluate the job and the company's fit for yourself, as well.

Some specific "fit check" questions I cover:

1) salary

2) opportunity

3) longevity

4) impact

Remember, it's not annoying or offensive to ask questions. It actually makes you look smart and shows that you care. Use these questions to springboard from and come up with even more questions, and also check out the link below for more.

Market Yourself Questions: (link) https://www.elissashuck-careercoach.com/market-yourself-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!