Coaching practices for What Does This Mean Re My Job Prospects

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• 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
• My whole sense of meaning was riding on one thing
• The conversation goes great and then it just...
• Someone asks "so what are you looking for?" and I ramble out something vague and apologetic
• My work feels like it disappears into a void

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. Audit which meaning source is currently depleted
   Regularly assess which of the three sources is most starved in your current life and reinvest there first.
   Frankl’s Three Sources of Meaning
3. 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
4. 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
5. Clarify how your role contributes to others
   Map the concrete downstream impact your work and presence have on specific people.
   Mattering: Feeling Like You Count
6. 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
7. 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
8. Maintain meaning sources proactively, not only after crisis
   Build a robust enough meaning system before the next stressor that any one event is less likely to shatter it entirely.
   Meaning-Making Coping, Made Practical
9. 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)
10. 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

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