"If I Fits I Sits" Makes for Cute Cat Videos. Not Successful Career Changes.

Are you spending hours on job boards?

Let's talk about job boards. If you’re on the search for your next career move, it seems perfectly logical to explore what’s out there. And 99% of us immediately think - job boards!

If you’re a mid-career high-performer and you’ve found yourself spending hours, days, or even weeks scouring job boards looking for your next best thing, odds are pretty good that you’re feeling less than inspired.

Be honest. How many times have you caught yourself thinking, “Okay, this could maybe be doable. I think I could morph and squeeze your skills, interests, and values to maybe, kinda, sorta fit something like this.”

But you’re a high-performer, you’re going all in and taking action - let’s go! And maybe you’ve found that that LinkedIn easy apply button isn’t exactly leading to a flood of interviews for roles you’re excited about. But you just hope if you keep hitting that easy apply, you’ll get a nibble. And maybe, just maybe, that nibble will validate that you're worthy of making a career change.

Ugh. Do you see why this is so frustrating? We have no control over what is posted on job boards.

Job boards are a trap.

STOP. No more "If I fits, I sits" when it comes to your career and finding work that lights you up. It's cute for cat videos, but not so much when it comes to your happiness and fulfillment in what you're doing with your life.

Get off the job boards. They're a GD trap and NOT how high-performers successfully take back control of their career. Starting your career change process by looking at job boards is a TRAP. Job boards will kill your confidence faster than trying on a swimsuit in the middle of a global pandemic. [okay okay, maybe that's just me.]

Stop looking for inspiration on job boards, because you're not going to find it there. It probably doesn’t feel like it, but you likely have a better idea of what you actually want to be doing than you think. You might not have the words and sentences just yet. That’s because as high-performers were are (1) awful at knowing what we’re best at aka our strengths and (2) can excel at a lot of things, even if we don’t particularly enjoy them.

That’s one of the key things I help my high-performing clients to discern: the difference between a strength and a skill. There’s a time and a place for both and your unique combination of strengths and skills are your superpowers in performing at a higher level and work actually feeling like fun again.