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.

“We’re always battling imposter syndrome – feelings inside that diminish our experience. This is normal. But what if there is a particular hard skill that you really don’t have a lot of experience with?” -Elissa Shuck, LYWL Ep. 45

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.

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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

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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.

“If there are two questions that give people the most heartburn during an interview – it’s the questions that I call the bookends, they are ‘tell me about yourself’ and ‘why should we hire you’. We all know they’re coming.” -Elissa Shuck, LYWL Ep. 44

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

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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.

"When you don't feel a sense of purpose at work, that lack of connection to the job you're doing can actually be baggage that travels along with you on your job search and prevents you from taking the action you need to take. That baggage will prevent you from landing a job quickly!" Elissa Shuck, LYWL EP.43

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

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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. 

“You don't have any control over whether somebody else shows up for you. Here is the thing that will make all the difference: You have control, and the control is you showing up.” Elissa Shuck, LYWL EP.42

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

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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.

I want you to feel so good about your career and job search skills that you know that you can weather anything that gets thrown at you. I had to learn career resilience. I had to look at everything that happened to me as an opportunity. It may have felt like rejection. Those are all real feelings, but when you learn how to process those feelings you will create career resilience. - Elissa Shuck, LYWL EP.40

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!

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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.

I'm fond of the statement, "everything I want is on the other side of the next action I take." Not all of the actions. When you suspend judgment about that next action, it allows you to move forward and let things unfold for you. Ideas create more ideas, actions create more actions. This is the law of nature, so take advantage of it! - Elissa Shuck, LYWL EP.39

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.

"I want you to think about what it's costing you to stay in that job that you hate. That job that's uncomfortable, that toxic environment. It's costing you your self-esteem, it's costing you financially, it's costing you your self worth because you work your butt off and you're never appreciated. I've been there. That's a battle when you're in a place that's not appreciating you." Elissa on LYWL EP.39

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.

Actions will never solve an emotion. The only thing that can change your emotions are your thoughts. It's your thoughts that create emotions which light the fire for better actions. So instead of hustling, go with effort. Effort, unlike hustle, is the plan that you employ daily to create the results you want.

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.

Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity...it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." — Melody Beattie

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.

When you think about your transferrable skills, and you start looking for those common threads, the common denominators between what you've done and what you want to do, you will start to feel more secure about it. You've got to connect the dots for yourself before you connect the dots for anyone else. That's how you do it.

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!