Coaching practices for I'm Not Sure What My Job is
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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’m good at my job and on top of my commitments, and yet I’m quietly miserable
- I’ve got the conversation booked but I’m staring at a blank page of questions, worried I’ll waste their time asking things I could’ve Googled
- I do my job competently and stay neatly inside my lane, and I sense that’s exactly why I’m read as just-a-role-filler
- When I talk to people in the field they give me the polished official version, and I walk away no clearer on what the day-to-day actually feels like
Practices that may help
- 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 - Apply the matrix at the role level, not just the task level
Audit which of your entire roles or commitments are Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4 — not just individual tasks.
The Eisenhower Life Audit - Prepare questions you genuinely don’t know the answer to
Ask about the unwritten realities of the role — the things no job posting reveals.
Informational Interviews: Career Research That Builds Your Network - Expand your role through extra-role behavior
Voluntarily take on work beyond your formal responsibilities to signal readiness for a higher-trust relationship.
Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical - Listen for what isn’t in the job description
Focus on the texture of day-to-day work, not the official narrative.
Informational Interviews: Career Research That Builds Your Network - Know and mark the edges of your circle
Label the boundary clearly: 'inside my circle’ vs 'outside my circle’ vs 'I am not sure.'
Circle of Competence - Anchor self-definition in values, not roles
Define yourself by what you stand for rather than by the roles you play — roles change; values endure.
Self-Concept Clarity, Made Practical - Assign a theme to each day of the week
Decide in advance which type of work each weekday is for and protect those assignments.
Theme Days, Made Practical - Write your Workview and Lifeview
Articulate what work is for and what life is for — then check whether they point the same way.
Designing Your Life, Made Practical - 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
Related concerns
- Changed My Job Title On My Cv
Replace passive job board browsing with active research into specific organisations you want to understand.
Build and work a target list of roles and organisations
- When Leader Member Exchange Expand Role Beyond Job Description
Voluntarily take on work beyond your formal responsibilities to signal readiness for a higher-trust relationship.
Expand your role through extra-role behavior
- Going Beyond Job Description
Voluntarily take on work beyond your formal responsibilities to signal readiness for a higher-trust relationship.
- How To Handle Being Unqualified For A Job
Replace passive job board browsing with active research into specific organisations you want to understand.
- How To Interview For A Job I Do Not Feel Qualified For
Ask about the unwritten realities of the role — the things no job posting reveals.
Prepare questions you genuinely don’t know the answer to
- Job Offer Usa Without Interview
Replace passive job board browsing with active research into specific organisations you want to understand.
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