Coaching practices for Started New Job but Want to Find a New One
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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’ve got a new hire starting and the lazy move is to just hand them whatever’s piled up in the backlog
- 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
- I’m at one of those clean-slate moments
- I’m about to join a whole new group of people who have no idea who I’ve been
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 - 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) - 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 - Time nudges to coincide with natural transition points
People are most open to changing habits at life transitions — capitalize on fresh-start moments.
Nudge Theory, Made Practical - 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 - 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 - 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 - Install target behaviors in the new context from day one
Begin the desired habit in the new environment before the new context develops its own competing cues.
The Habit Discontinuity Effect - Use a life transition to break old environment-behavior links
Major context changes (a move, a new job) create a rare window where old habits are disrupted and new ones are easier to form.
Environment Design for Behavior Change - Sample widely before committing to a niche
Premature specialization forecloses interests you haven’t discovered yet.
Passion vs Interest: How to Actually Find Work You Love
Related concerns
- Atomic Habits In A New Job
James Clear’s system says behavior change is a system problem, not a willpower problem: make a desired habit obvious, attractive, easy, and satisfying — and do the reverse for bad ones. The most load-bearing ideas (implementation intentions, friction reduction, identity-based change) are well supported in the research literature.
- Started New Job And Dont Like It
Evaluate your current situation as if you were encountering it for the first time, without sunk costs.
Ask: “Would I choose this today if I were starting fresh?”
- The One Thing In A New Job
In the first stage, a new team needs structure and purpose more than it needs team-building.
Forming: provide clarity before connection
- Nature And Movement In A New Job
Treat approaching life changes as scheduled opportunities for habit installation — plan before the transition, not after.
Identify and anticipate upcoming transition windows
- Career Change
Treat approaching life changes as scheduled opportunities for habit installation — plan before the transition, not after.
- Habit Reversal Training In A New Job
Habit reversal training (HRT), developed by Nathan Azrin and Robert Nunn in the 1970s, is a behavioral therapy approach that combines awareness training and competing response practice to interrupt unwanted habitual behaviors. It has strong clinical evidence for tic disorders and body-focused repetitive behaviors, and the underlying principles apply broadly to habit change.
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