Coaching practices for Convicted Felon Looking for a Job

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• My whole job search is just refreshing job boards and firing off applications into the void, competing with hundreds of strangers for whatever happens to be posted
• I want to message someone in a field I’m curious about, but I freeze on what to even say
• Someone asks "so what are you looking for?" and I ramble out something vague and apologetic
• I’ve already tried and convicted them in my head over one thing they said, and I’m about to act on that verdict
• I keep hiring for the most impressive resume and then watching them work purely transactionally, and I want to start screening for whether someone actually believes in what we’re doing

Practices that may help

1. Build and work a target list of roles and organisations
   Replace passive job board browsing with active research into specific organisations you want to understand.
   Informational Interviews: Career Research That Builds Your Network
2. Request the conversation the right way
   A short, specific, no-pressure request gets far more responses than a vague networking ask.
   Informational Interviews: Career Research That Builds Your Network
3. Practise your story before you need it
   Have a clear, genuine two-minute narrative about who you are and where you’re headed.
   Informational Interviews: Career Research That Builds Your Network
4. Check the story before you conclude
   Ask what they actually meant instead of convicting them on your interpretation.
   Generous Interpretation
5. Hire people who share the Why, not just the skills
   Skills can be learned; shared belief cannot — filtering for Why-alignment at hiring is the highest-leverage culture move.
   Start With Why: Leading Through Purpose
6. Offer concrete repair
   Say what you’ll do to make it right or prevent a repeat — not just that you feel bad.
   The Art of Apology
7. Actively seek out the failures you aren’t seeing
   Look for the people who tried the same thing and didn’t make it through.
   Survivorship Bias: Learning from What You Can’t See
8. Use a small ask to repair a strained relationship
   In a cool or conflicted relationship, asking for a small favor can reset the dynamic more effectively than doing one.
   The Ben Franklin Effect, Made Practical
9. State your estimate before encountering vivid case information
   Lock in a prior probability estimate before reading a compelling story or meeting a specific candidate.
   Attribute Substitution: When Your Brain Answers a Different Question
10. Ensure participation is voluntary for all parties
    Restorative processes only work when everyone — especially the harmed party — chooses to participate.
    Restorative Justice (Howard Zehr)

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