Coaching practices for Interviewing While Starting New Job
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Interviewing While Starting New Job, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- 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
- The conversation goes great and then it just...
- I’ve got a new hire starting and the lazy move is to just hand them whatever’s piled up in the backlog
- 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’ve got a big move (or a new job) coming up in a couple of months, and I can feel it’s a rare chance to start fresh
Practices that may help
- 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 - Close every informational interview with one forward step
End by asking: "Is there someone else you think I should talk to?"
Informational Interviews: Career Research That Builds Your Network - Use genius mapping in onboarding
Surface a new hire’s geniuses early so you design their role around energy, not just skills.
The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni) - 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 - Identify and anticipate upcoming transition windows
Treat approaching life changes as scheduled opportunities for habit installation — plan before the transition, not after.
The Habit Discontinuity Effect - 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 - Use the anticipation of interaction to create liking before meeting
Knowing you will interact with someone in the future makes you evaluate them more positively before it happens.
The Propinquity Effect (Leon Festinger) - 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 - 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 - Use social transitions to change the norms around your behavior
When your social group changes, use the transition to adopt the behavioral norms of the new group rather than carrying old ones.
The Habit Discontinuity Effect
Related concerns
- Applying To Job Postings That Ask For Personal Information Like Address Upfront
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
- Signs You Will Get The Job After Interview
End by asking: "Is there someone else you think I should talk to?"
Close every informational interview with one forward step
- What Does This Mean Re My Job Prospects
Replace passive job board browsing with active research into specific organisations you want to understand.
- When Moving Countries What Should You List As Location In Job Application
Replace passive job board browsing with active research into specific organisations you want to understand.
- Alternative To Providing Individuals References During Job Application
Replace passive job board browsing with active research into specific organisations you want to understand.
- Am I Getting Scammed Job Search
Replace passive job board browsing with active research into specific organisations you want to understand.
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