The Job Hunting Podcast

Are you sabotaging your career? I often wonder: are people fearful of failure, or could they fear success? Regardless, corporate professionals tend to self-sabotage their careers. So this episode of The Job Hunting Podcast is dedicated to professionals who feel afraid or anxious about taking the next step to advance or change their careers. Here is what I have learned from speaking to hundreds of...

How do you keep your career healthy over time? It's important to manage your career all the time and not just when you need it. For example, if you leave until the last minute to do a career health check, it may be too late to avoid the areas you have neglected from negatively impacting your success rate. Of course, as a career coach, it's part of my service to reverse and counteract some of these...

What can we learn from the natural world to help manage our careers? Career management is a concept that is lost to many professionals, and that's such a surprise to me. Professionals usually are great at making plans for their children’s education, buying a new house, going on vacations, and organizing special birthdays. But seldom do they plan for how they are going to afford all of the above. R...

Can nutrition play a part in your career success? Is sugar bad for your career? To answer these and many other questions, I have invited Michele Chevalley Hedge, a Nutritional Medicine Practitioner, to be my guest on the podcast. I wanted Michele in particular because she worked as a corporate executive for Microsoft before becoming an international nutrition expert. Her experience means she truly...

In managing the trajectory of your career, one of the most important assets you have is your reputation. What other people think of... you as a colleague, leader, or team member, your workplace performance, and your behavior around others, including clients and stakeholders. ...will impact their ability to consider you for promotions internally, as well as job opportunities in other organizations....

Are you ready for your next job interview? Most people would prepare for the interview by practicing answers to questions, and that's, of course, really important. However, researching the possible questions and the proper answers for those questions can be a rabbit hole and surely not the only success factor in helping you nail the interview and get the job. In this new episode (83) of The Job Hu...

Executive presence, in a nutshell, is the ability to project confidence and gravitas under pressure. So, how can you show executive presence in a job interview when you are anxious and nervous? That's an excellent question! So, let's unpack executive presence and its dimensions to address each one and control the situation as much as possible. But first, here is an important issue we need to addre...

Did you know that coffee and caffeine can help you prepare and perform better for your job interview? As if we needed more reasons to drink it, right?! But in all seriousness, you need to be very careful how and when you drink your caffeine before a job interview. Listen to this episode to find out why! Don't you drink coffee? Don't worry! Even if you don't like coffee, other caffeine drinks and c...

I have news for you: LinkedIn is once again creating some great new features to adapt to the new world of "everybodyisworkingfromhomeandLinkedInisallwe'vegot, frankly"! Listen to this episode to find out more. There could be an improvement there to help improve your profile and personal presentation. Read the full Blog on the Website 31 Days of Action for Job Seekers Find Your Talents: Learn...

10 tips on transitioning from a corporate job to being a business owner I don't claim to be a small business consultant. I love career planning and coaching corporate professionals. However, during the coaching process, a client will eventually decide they want out from time to time! When that happens, I share how I transitioned from a corporate employee to a business owner since I have personal e...

Jacinta and her colleague Caroline McAuliffe have co-authored a book, The Rise of the Interim Executive: A Guide to Navigate Your Success . This book is out this month and a must-read for professionals who are keen to move now or in the future towards interim work. I have five copies to give away to listeners. All you need to do is give this podcast 5 stars and write a review on iTunes or the Appl...

Assessment test during the recruitment process is every professional's nightmare Chances are, if you are a corporate professional, young or old, you have done assessment tests either during a recruitment process or as part of your organizational development with an organization. Alas, you may even have done it as part of your outplacement program. There are psychometric, personality, cognitive, an...

Are There Jobs for Corporate Professionals in Regional Australia? The pandemic has changed the way we work. Corporate professionals are now working from home, and many people have time to reflect on what they want to pursue in life. Because of these changes, many have reflected on moving to the regions to live and work there. But are there good jobs for corporate professionals in regional Australi...

Whether you've been job searching for months or you have just started, I encourage you to press reset, sharpen your focus and go through the list of critical success factors below. Make sure you are reviewing and addressing them every day during your transition. I hope that by being strategic and building a healthy job search routine, you will - like my clients - have a shorter growth that leads t...

Today, Ilana Kozakiewicz is a Kinesiologist, Yoga and Meditation Teacher, and Mindfulness Consultant. But until 2016, Ilana had over a decade of work as an accountant, working for large energy corporations. It sounds like a massive career transition, so I invited Ilana to share with us why and how she did it. I'm so glad she said yes. It's great for those in career transition or actively planning...

Israel is the leading country in rolling out the covid-19 vaccine to its people. The rest of the world, especially policymakers and strategists, are watching closely, hoping to learn from Israel's success and mistakes. Will our careers and professional opportunities be back to normal once we all get vaccinated? I invited my friend Amir Eldad for a chat to provide us with an insight into what is ha...

Gender bias, double standards, mental and physical dangers affecting women in the workplace are nothing new, which is precisely the issue. In many ways, the COVID pandemic has highlighted challenges and opportunities for women in the workplace. In preparation for IWD2021, I invited Hannah Piterman, an expert on ethical leadership, diversity, and gender equality, to discuss these issues on The Job...

It's entirely possible to change lanes in your career, and you can and should consider changing sectors, industries and even transferring your skills to a completely different profession. But how can you do that smartly? And when is the Right Time to do it? How do you position yourself for a significant change? About our guest, Donna Burr: Donna’s experience and passion for seeing businesses thriv...

There are many misconceptions about job hunting and how to advance your career. For 5 weeks between January and February this year (2021), I was on my Facebook Page every Wednesday doing live and free coaching sessions, busting one myth per week for five weeks. This was a fun project for me, and at the time of writing (22 February 2021), over 4000 have watched these videos*. We then compiled the b...

Redundancy and job searching are a reality to be expected by most corporate professionals at some point in their careers. But when a pandemic of global scale interferes, the experience can become heightened as the number of unemployed worldwide is at its peak. In this episode of the Job Hunting Podcast, I interviewed Amber Knight, an honest podcast listener and someone who experienced redundancy d...

Why are the first 90 days into a new job so crucial in the corporate world? Well, often, it's the typical length of the probationary period, but more than that, it can set the tone for the rest of your tenure in the organization. Consultant, Coach, and coach trainer Sue Zablud was the first to introduce me to the concept and book by the same name, written by Michael D. Watkins. In this podcast epi...

In this episode, I'm sharing Lesson One of Module Four of the Job Hunting Made Simple program. Module Four is all about understanding and succeeding in the Recruitment and Selection process. In Lesson One, which you are about to listen to, I explain how organizations design, approve and advertise job positions. You will learn all the steps companies go through to advertise a job, how hiring decisi...

In this episode, I’ll be sharing with you my observations of high-performance individuals. In this case, high-ranking tennis players and their teams, their coaches, family, doctors, physios – and draw learnings and ideas we can use in managing our careers and getting ready for job hunting and career progression. I believe we can learn by observing, and not just by reading books or going to school....

“Our emotions, our intuitions, and our gut reactions will often lead us in the wrong direction,” said Dr. Gleb Tsipursky in my interview with him, recorded on Friday 27th of March 2020. Never have we ever in our lives, in this generation, at this point in time, wanted to know more about what to do, how to do it, and when will the threat of COVID-19 be over. All over the world, political leaders, s...

In 2020, we have talked about how the pandemic affects all areas of our lives, especially our work. Living and working from home, market disruption, and government interventions are now the new normal, at least until we control the outbreak and most likely up to the point where we have a wide distribution of an effective vaccine. With that said, our world has changed. So, how is our new world of w...