Episode 328 - I borrow two tools from elite sport psychology: the difference between thoughts and attention, and the difference between internal and external focus. You’ll learn how to stop fighting your nerves and start directing your attention.

Job searching can feel deeply personal, but the mechanics of it are closer to a high-performance environment than most people want to admit. You are assessed in real time. You are compared, often invisibly, against other candidates. You are expected to communicate with clarity, confidence, and restraint while navigating uncertainty, rejection, and the emotional weight of change.

For experienced corporate professionals and executives, this becomes even more complex. The stakes feel higher, the stories are longer, and the margin for error can seem smaller. Many of the people I work with are excellent at their jobs, yet they find the job search uniquely destabilising. That’s not because they are not capable. It’s because job hunting creates a different cognitive and emotional context than most leadership roles do.

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Timestamps to guide your listening:

1. 00:00 The Competitive Nature of Job Hunting
2. 03:26 Understanding Thoughts vs. Attention
3. 19:27 Internal vs. External Focus in Job Search
4. 33:02 Applying Focus Techniques in Real Scenarios

Links mentioned in this episode:

1. My Instagram
2. Subscribe to my newsletter
3. Group coaching wait list
4. Reset Your Career online course
5. All my courses and coaching services:
6. Video with Alex Cohen that I mentioned on the podcast

Episode 327 - I share six tools I use with experienced professionals who feel stuck in job search. You will leave with clearer direction, a simple decision filter, and practical ways to build momentum.

January has a particular sound in my inbox. It is the quiet urgency of people who are either ready for change or exhausted from trying. Many are senior professionals with decades of achievement behind them, now facing a job search that feels unfamiliar, slower, and strangely impersonal.

The temptation is to treat that discomfort as a personal flaw. Please, do not. Instead, treat it as a signal.

If you feel overwhelmed right now, you are not broken. You are overloaded. And the overload is not only emotional. It is structural. As 2026 begins, multiple signals point to a labor market that is “stuck in place,” with slow hiring and slow firing, and a growing divide between sectors that are hiring and those that are simply holding.

That “low-hire, low-fire” reality creates a special kind of psychological strain for corporate job seekers. You can do everything “right” and still hear nothing. You can have a strong resume and still feel invisible. You can be an excellent leader and still find yourself tweaking a LinkedIn headline at midnight, as if the correct adjective will unlock a recruiter’s calendar.

This is the context in which mindset stops being motivational fluff and becomes a practical career asset.

The market is sending a clear message: there is less room for vague positioning, passive applications, and comfort-zone job searching. The good news is that experienced professionals are unusually well equipped for this moment, once they stop trying to recreate the last chapter and begin designing the next one.

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Timestamps to guide your listening:

1. 00:00 Welcome to 2026: A New Beginning
2. 00:11 Changing Your Mindset for Job Searching
3. 04:17 Six Mindset Tools for Career Success
4. 07:22 Designing Your Professional Character
5. 10:34 Outsmarting Your Internal Monster
6. 14:44 The Third Person Audit for Clarity
7. 18:54 Taking Action: From Ideas to Execution
8. 20:52 Podcast Changes and Future Engagement

Links mentioned in this episode:

1. My website

Episode 326 - Navigate career uncertainty with strategies to stay relevant amid AI disruptions and global shifts.

Rebroadcasting as Episode 326 during our holiday break, this episode (originally released as Episode 295) continues to be one of the most practical and impactful guides for professionals feeling threatened by uncertainty in the job market, especially from AI.

The job market feels like it's operating in a dense fog. For many professionals, particularly those in mid-to-senior corporate roles, navigating a career today is less like following a GPS and more like learning to read a compass in the dark. This uncertainty is not just emotional, it’s systemic. We’ve seen a wave of redundancies ripple across different sectors. My own coaching clients, many of whom are experienced professionals, were affected. The catalyst? A perfect storm of geopolitical issues, reduced funding, and yes, artificial intelligence.

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31 Days of Action for Job Seekers

Find Your Talents: Learn About Your Strengths, and Watch Your Career Grow

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Lear More About Renata's career coaching and courses



Timestamps to guide your listening:

1. 00:00 Navigating Job Search Challenges
2. 08:31 Facing Uncertainty in the Job Market
3. 17:00 The Fog of Uncertainty in 2025
4. 36:44 Taking Action Amidst Uncertainty

Links mentioned in this episode:

1. Reset Your Career
2. TalentPredix
3. Book a consultation with me
4. Episode 23 - Adapting to Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity - with Janet Sernack
5. Episode 59 - The Power of Self-Fidelity: How to Be True to Yourself and Thrive Professionally - With Author Cassandra Goodman
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