Corporate Survivor with Mei Phing : Career Growth In The Corporate World - Ep112: How to overcome fears in job search.

Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to the Corporate Survivor Podcast, where we talk about how to grow your career confidence, build your skills and value, increase your salary, and the many lessons we learn in the corporate world. For more career support, click on over to www.mayping.com. This is Mayping, your corporate leader turned career coach. I hope you enjoy, like and subscribe. Are you actively looking for a job right now, but you're feeling a little bit stuck, a little bit lost? Then you are in luck.

Starting point is 00:00:35 In this episode, I'm going to share with you the top six mindset blocks that you may be going through as an active job seeker and how you can overcome them. So make sure that you don't miss out on this episode and listen to the end for all these awesome tips that's really going to help you along your job search journey. So let's dive in. Number one, I don't have enough or relevant experience. No, that is not correct.

Starting point is 00:01:03 The reason why you're thinking this way and the reason why you're feeling this way is because you lack the ability to identify your transferable skills as well as your overall value. So this is really an issue around identifying your own value that allows you to really believe in yourself and feeling a lot more confident that you are the best candidate for the job as well. So it's not just other people, but really you believing in yourself first. 2. I am not as good as the other candidates.

Starting point is 00:01:32 So if you're feeling this way, let me tell you right now, it's the similar problem as the earlier point where it is your lack of ability to see your overall value. So maybe you have been working for 1 year, three years, five years, 10 years, 20 years or even maybe 30 years but the feelings that you are not as good as someone else that doesn't quickly go away. So the fastest way, the most effective way to overcome this feeling is to really take stock of all the skills that you have and all the transferable skills, the contribution, the achievements throughout your corporate career journey that really gives you the inner validation that yes, I am good, I know I can do it

Starting point is 00:02:15 and more importantly, I am on par with any other candidates out there in the job search process. The number three fear I hear from many job seekers who are actively looking for a job but not necessarily finding any results or still feeling really stressful in the job search process is feeling like I don't think I can do the job. This is a very natural feeling, but the question that I have for you is, if you feel that you cannot do the job, then why are you applying? It is a bit of a tricky situation,

Starting point is 00:02:54 but the best way to overcome it is upskill, upskill and upskill. If you really want the job and it's really aligned with your career growth strategy, there is always a solution for you to improve your knowledge, your skills, your expertise, as well as your exposure. So this point around, I don't think I can do it, I say that it's one of the biggest mindset blocks that you may be encountering that's creating a lot of fear, but the answer is upskill,skill upskill you can do it on to the fourth reason that creates a lot of fears for job seekers is feeling like the job

Starting point is 00:03:32 market is too competitive right now i'm not sure if now is the right time for me to apply for a job now let's be real and let me tell you the truth here the job market will always be competitive at any time because everybody wants the best jobs right that's the best opportunity for your career growth and probably somebody else's career growth as well so the job market will always be competitive but the beauty is opportunities are always available if you are the best candidate you are the top candidate that can really express your background skills experiences and your overall value in a way that the company feels like whoa i really want to hire you because you fit this job description this specific position that we are hiring for So jobs will always be available if you are the best

Starting point is 00:04:28 candidate for the role. So don't give up, don't feel like oh yeah there's a lot of competition. There will always be competition. What you can do is to make sure that you upskill, understand the entire job search process so that you can improve step by step from career clarity to resume to LinkedIn profile to job search strategies and even interview skills to increase your chances. The next reason I hear from many job seekers is feeling like I don't think there are any right positions for me. So are you feeling this way as well? Are you feeling like you have been job searching for some time but you still can't seem to find that perfect job for you so here's the answer and rather here's the secret that i want to share with you

Starting point is 00:05:10 there is no perfect job but what you may be lacking that's treating a lot of fears and stress and feeling lost in general is career clarity because because if you don't know what you want then how can you make sure that you're going to apply the right job search strategies, you're going to take the right steps for you to conduct a more targeted job search. So all these comes back to career clarity, knowing what you want and setting your career GPS so that you can take action in the right direction. So take action in the right direction. So take action in the right direction. So assuming that you have overcome a lot of your fears around stepping out, applying for roles, exploring new opportunities, you may now be in a situation where you need to negotiate for your salary. So one of the common fears that I also hear from many job seekers is feeling like

Starting point is 00:06:01 I don't think anybody is going to pay me the salary that I want. Now, that is not correct. So the tip that I really want to share with you is that if you feel like people are not going to pay you what you want, it may be a problem around your self-belief on your overall value. It could be a lower self-confidence on the skills, exposure, expertise that you bring to the table that you may not necessarily be aware of or it could also be another issue around self-esteem as well. Maybe you have not been able to get the salary that you're looking for in the past but you feel like oh my god this is another similar

Starting point is 00:06:35 situation. No, stop there. It doesn't have to be this way. So if you want to get the salary that you're looking for, make sure that you are applying the job search process steps correctly because you want to make sure that from the beginning, you are articulating your value very clearly in your resume. You are also applying for the right jobs in a targeted manner. And finally, during the interview process, you are also able to express your overall value and how you can actually contribute to this new company that you're applying for so salary negotiation is both an art and science but you can definitely get the number and rather the money the number that you're looking for if you're applying the job search process in the correct step-by-step order that i usually recommend to increase your chances for success. So these are the six fears that I commonly hear from active job seekers as well as people who are thinking about looking

Starting point is 00:07:32 for job opportunities but feel that there are many fears that holding them back from really committing to the job search process to improve their careers. So tell me in the comments or drop me a message on LinkedIn and let me know which of these six fears that you have been feeling for some time and what are you doing to overcome them. So drop me a comment below or send me a message on LinkedIn and let me know. If you're feeling any of these fears that I've just shared, I want to tell you that it's okay. It's not just you. There are many people out there working in their 9-5 jobs who also feel similar fears as well. But the beauty of this situation

Starting point is 00:08:12 is that you can always choose to rise above that and learn how to overcome these fears before it turns into a big problem in your career. Because remember, your career is not a sprint it is a marathon as you rise up the corporate career ladder level by level so you just want to make sure that these fears are not gonna pun intended interfere in along your career journey so that you can be as successful as possible without getting stuck along the way and if you enjoyed today's episode and you want to learn the correct step by step on how to plan and grow your career specifically for job search if you're active job seeker or you want to improve your performance at work if you're currently a 9-5 working professional then I invite you to

Starting point is 00:08:57 join my free training where I'll go through the six step process that you need to know to plan and grow your career for long-term success. So register at www.growyourcorporatecareer.com, join my free training where I will bring you through the journey and also let you know what are the other mistakes that you might be making along your career that you need to take note of. So join me in the training and I will see you there. I hope this episode has inspired you to overcome your fears in your job search as well as improving your career in your 9 to 5 job so that you can continue to climb up the corporate ladder without many obstacles and keep moving and keep rolling towards your career success. Till then, I'll see you next week. Bye! terus bergerak dan terus bergerak ke atas kemampuan kerjaya anda sehingga kemudian saya akan berjumpa anda minggu depan. Selamat tinggal

Corporate Survivor with Mei Phing : Career Growth In The Corporate World - Ep112: How to overcome fears in job search.

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