Coaching practices for Why Can't I Find a Job with a Bachelor's Degree

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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 want to message someone in a field I’m curious about, but I freeze on what to even say
• I keep hiring for the most impressive resume and then watching them work purely transactionally, and I want to start screening for whether someone actually believes in what we’re doing
• 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
• I feel like I should already know my one thing and lock in, but honestly I’ve barely tried anything

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. 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
3. 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.
4. Hire people who share the Why, not just the skills
   Skills can be learned; shared belief cannot — filtering for Why-alignment at hiring is the highest-leverage culture move.
   Start With Why: Leading Through Purpose
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. 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
7. Prioritize skill gains that reveal more of the domain
   Each layer of skill opens new parts of a domain you couldn’t see before — this is how interest deepens.
   Passion vs Interest: How to Actually Find Work You Love
8. 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
9. Spot gravity problems
   Distinguish problems you can act on from "gravity problems" you can only accept and route around.
   Designing Your Life, Made Practical
10. 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

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