Coaching practices for Is it 'easier' to Get a Job When You Already Have One

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

• I’m about to walk into a new job and a new neighborhood, and I’m already bracing for it to be awkward, rehearsing how they probably won’t take to me
• 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
• There’s a job that pays more but eats my evenings, and a longer commute that saves a little cash, and I keep instinctively grabbing the money option
• 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
• Starting something new always feels better than grinding out the hard, half-finished thing, so I keep kicking off fresh tasks

Practices that may help

1. 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)
2. 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
3. Choose time over money on purpose
   When trade-offs arise, weight time more heavily than the extra dollars.
   Time Affluence, Made Practical
4. The Strength of Weak Ties
   Sociologist Mark Granovetter found that weak ties — casual acquaintances rather than close friends — are disproportionately valuable for finding jobs, opportunities, and novel information, because they bridge social clusters you wouldn’t otherwise reach. The effect is well supported observationally and has held up across multiple replication attempts.
5. 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
6. Set and enforce a WIP (Work In Progress) limit
   Limit yourself to two to three tasks in the Doing column at any time — never more, even when starting a new task feels easier than finishing an old one.
   Personal Kanban, Made Practical
7. 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
8. Ask: “Would I choose this today if I were starting fresh?”
   Evaluate your current situation as if you were encountering it for the first time, without sunk costs.
   Status Quo Bias — Why We Stick with the Default
9. 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
10. Actively choose time over money at decision points
    People who habitually trade money for time report higher life satisfaction than those who do the reverse.
    Time Smart: Buying Back Your Time Affluence

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