In this solo coaching video, career and mindset coach Natalie Fisher outlines three mental strategies that can dramatically accelerate a job search. First, she stresses the importance of making faster decisions—whether to apply, reach out, or engage with a program—by recognizing that postponing decisions only provides temporary relief while slowing progress. Second, she teaches rapid post‑interview evaluation: dissecting each interview to uncover hidden objections, reframing them as opportunities, and preparing concrete, compelling answers for future encounters. She illustrates this with a client who misinterpreted an interviewer's question about industry switching and missed a chance to highlight the value of cross‑industry experience. Third, Fisher addresses the tendency to linger in discouragement after rejections, urging job seekers to adopt a "creation mode" mindset that treats setbacks as decision points for immediate recovery and continued momentum. She uses an ocean‑paddling metaphor to contrast slow, reactionary paddling with a resilient, forward‑focused approach. Throughout, she offers practical examples, emphasizes the need for quick iteration, and invites viewers to join her free training for deeper guidance.
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Hello, in this video I'm going to talk about 3 things, 3 mindset things that will speed up your job hunt, speed up your result, and they're coming from fresh client coaching sessions that I just did. So stay tuned. I'm Natalie Fisher, job search career coach, mindset coach, basically results coach, helping you get the result you want in your career specifically. So the first thing that that speeds up a result is making faster decisions. So I may have talked about this before, but it just came up again. It's just something people don't realize that they're doing is they'll be putting off their decisions till later. Like every, every time your brain puts a decision off till later, it is getting relief, right? It's saying, oh, oh, I don't have to worry about that right now. I don't have to deal with that right now. And it is pushing away the uncomfortable feeling of I don't have to deal with that right now. Right. Right? That decision can be anything, a decision that drives you in the direction you know you need to go. So it could be the decision to apply for something, to actually sit down and work on an application and submit it. It could be a decision to reach out to a specific person. It could be a decision to dig into the program that you already signed up for and actually go through and implement the first part of the material. It, it It's a decision that is going to drive you forward, but your brain keeps putting it off, right? And it is that simple. It is just like, I'm going to decide to do that thing. The second one is prolonging your evaluation of what worked and what didn't work. So, I teach about evaluating interviews. And when you go— when you're going to interviews and you're not getting the results that you want, then evaluating and Figuring out what it is that you could have done differently, how you could have shown up differently, is really, really important. In fact, it's non-negotiable. And this is what happens. This is why people are in the job search for years and years, or for months, or for longer than they want to be, is because they're not capitalizing on the wisdom of the interviews that they've had. So the one story that just came to mind, which I was talking to, which I was coaching somebody on, She said that the interviewer had said something and she made it mean something. So in coaching, I get really clear. I'm like, okay, what did they say exactly? And then what did that mean? What did you make that mean in your head? So she had said that he'd asked her a question. He asked her about why she was switching industries because he didn't understand. He was basically sharing his thoughts, saying, well, I don't understand why people switch from this industry to this industry. What do they have to gain? And she made that mean that he didn't feel comfortable hiring her because she was switching industries. Now, he didn't say, I don't feel comfortable hiring you because you're switching industries. He asked a question. And so in that evaluation process for her, there was a key moment there that she needed to capitalize on. She saw his objection. He had an objection. He thought, well, I don't know why you're switching industries. And, and he had been in the same place for 10 years, so he wasn't somebody who thought the same way as her. But the key insight there that she was missing by just making it mean that he wasn't comfortable was that she could have talked to him about why bringing other industry experience would be so beneficial and is more diverse, right? And is going to bring a fresh set of eyes that someone from the same industry cannot see. And there is a lot more to it than that, but that is one little insight that you completely miss when all you're thinking about is, oh, he wasn't comfortable and that was it. And then you get into a state where you're like, oh, I didn't get it, I good enough. Let's just move on. Let's just forget about this whole thing. And you end up just kind of curling up into a ball and making it want to go away, right? Instead of leaning into that curiosity and being like, okay, but what— like, what is actually the, the benefits of having somebody from a different industry? Why do people hire people from different industries? Like, there's a whole thing to go into from that. And I'm not saying you have to go into the whole thing, but you want to have Here's how you know if you've evaluated properly. You'll want to have an insight where you are excited for them to ask you that question again. You're like hoping they're going to ask it again so that you can actually answer it in the powerful way that you now have with your new brain. Okay. And the third thing that people do that slows down their job hunt is they take too long to recover and they, they take too long Or they're not in that results creation state. So when you have a situation and you're not successful, or you don't get the result, or you are not getting— yeah, you're not getting the callback, or you get a rejection— in that moment, that's the moment that you get to make a decision. You get to decide, okay, what am I going to do with this moment? And most people will feel bad, they will get discouraged, and they will kind of stay in that discouraged state for a really long time. And their attitude is kind of like, Well, I'm hoping that something can work out. I'm hoping that this can come through. I'm hoping like, and they might still be actively in processes. They might still be actively like going through the motions and applying, but their mind isn't there. Their mind isn't in that results creation state. Their mind is in a very doubtful, very like, ah, maybe, I mean, it's possible I might get called back. I'm hopeful that I might get called back, right? But it's not in a, I'm doing what I need to to get called back. Because it's not just about the one thing. It's not just about having one thing on the go. It's your responsibility to create momentum for yourself with your mind. And you can do that when you are in that creation mode, right? So it's about being in creation mode and about— and the creation mode builds the belief that you have already created the results. So being in creation mode, and that's not something that you can do when you're taking every rejection really hard. So have you ever heard someone say, oh, that rejection was like a punch in the gut, or like a stab in the heart, or like— they use really visceral ways to describe a rejection. And that is what keeps people down and out of the game for a really long time. It's like if you're paddling from one side of the ocean to the other, to an island, right? And you, you've got a distance of which you need to paddle, but it's a really long distance. Let's just say it's a really long distance, okay? Because people like to say the job hunt takes time, it takes time, it takes time. And it's like, you know what? It doesn't have to take time. but it does take most people a lot of time because they don't know how to make decisions fast, and they don't know how to evaluate fast, and they don't know how to upgrade their mentality fast enough. So it does take a long time. So because of that, I'll use this metaphor. Let's just say there's an ocean shore and then there's an island, okay? And there, let's say it's a quote-unquote long way to the island. Let's just say that's how long your job search is going to take, right? So you're, you're paddling, right? And so instead of paddling at a slow and steady pace, what they do— because if, say, you're paddling at a slow and steady pace, and let's just say for argument's sake it's going to take 2 to months to get the job, right? Like, let's say that's a time frame you can get on board with. It's arbitrary, but let's just say you can— 8 weeks to, to get the job, maybe a little longer. Or you're just like, I know I'm gonna get there, right? Like, however long it takes you to be like, either if I'm not there yet, I'm in expectancy, I know it's happening, right? So let's say it takes that long. Let's, let's just pretend. And if you're paddling, this is what people are doing if I'm using this metaphor. They're paddling, and then they'll get in, and they'll go paddle paddle paddle paddle really really really fast, and then they'll hit a bump or something, or they'll hit a block, and then they'll get jolted, and they'll get thrown off. And then from that bump, they'll be like, "Oh, that hit so hard!" And like maybe they get some water in the boat or something, and they're like, "Oh, that was so hard! I oh, that was that just threw me right off." And they stop paddling, and then they have to sit there, and it takes them a really long time to reorient themselves. And they all like they're not focused. Focused on the, the goal anymore. Like, they're, they're kind of like, oh, like, I have to feel my feelings. I have to make sure that this isn't— like, that, that everything's okay. Like, oh, like, it just feels bad, right? And then that happens, and then they might paddle a little bit more, like maybe 2 more paddles, and hit another bump or something. And then that same thing happens again, recurring, like very disoriented and very— like, it takes a long time to recover from those bumps, right? And then that's what happens. It Basically, they're paddling, but they're just hitting like little rocks along the way, and they're letting those little rocks kind of keep them sitting ducks, right? Instead of if you're paddling and you're like, okay, either way I'm gonna get to the other side, right? It doesn't matter if I hit the rocks. It doesn't matter if my— like, if my— if, if the boat breaks and there's a hole in it, I just gotta go faster, right? Like, if it's a little hole and you're like, either way I'll just get out and I'll swim, like, whatever the hell, I'm gonna do it, right? If you're in that state, then okay, uh, uh, you bump the boat with a rock and you're like, okay, good, check damage. Okay, interesting, looks fine, let's keep going. And then maybe you hit another bump and you're like, okay, nope, doesn't matter, let's keep going. And then before you know it, you're there. Okay, it's a difference in mentality. So the reason why it takes so long, because I'm like fascinated by this, is your mentality. It is how you make decisions. It is how quickly you evaluate, how quickly you pinpoint what it is that was going wrong there? What is it? Where, where your mental state was? Where was it that you checked off, like you checked out of the interview and decided that they didn't want you or that they didn't feel comfortable hiring you? Or where was it that you decided that? And then, and then identify that moment. And then when you go to another interview, being excited to answer that same question again or to handle that, like, because they're going to have concerns. That's one thing I teach in my free training about. They have concerns about you that they don't always say. Sometimes they're going to say them and you're going to get that tidbit of information and you're going to know what it is you have to speak to, how you have to actually make them feel comfortable with you knowing that you're maybe from a different industry or whatever, and why that's even better and why that's even more exciting. And your energy will bring that to them and then make them think differently. And that is one of the examples of how you evaluate and you go back and you do it differently next time. But most people don't do that. They just think, oh, they just didn't feel comfortable. I guess I can't— like, I guess I have less of a chance now because I'm switching industries. Oh, that sucks. I feel discouraged. Oh, this whole thing is taking long. Oh, this is not working. Oh, I need to like they just rethink their whole their their whole past and their whole capability and their whole their whole self because of one thing that one person said that they made something mean, right? So I hope that was helpful. The job search—it does not have to take a long time. It really doesn't. Like you want to create results on a timeline. Make faster decisions, evaluate faster, and commit to rowing that boat to the. Finish line, and that's it. I know it sounds simple. If you want some extra help, grab my free training, get on a training with me. I will explain to you the A to Z details, and I can help you get there faster because I'll help you with all that evaluation and all the things that you are not seeing right now that are going to impede the speed of your results. I will see you in the next video. If you like this video, give me a thumbs up. If you didn't, give it a thumbs down. Subscribe to the channel, watch some of the other videos. 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