Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah and you're listening to the squiggly careers podcast, a weekly show where we talk about the ins, outs, ups and downs of work and share some ideas for actions, some tools for you to try out to give you a bit more confidence and control of all the squiggly stuff that you're experiencing right now.

And if this is the first time that you've listened to the podcast, we've also got loads of

extra resources to support you and your squiggly career.

So we have pod sheets, which are summaries of every episode with lots of the key takeaways

for you all in one place.

We've also got lots of lots of free career resources on our website, amazingif.com.

Head to the toolkit and there's loads of stuff that you can use on your own.

If you're mentor people, it might help you with that and you can also use it in team meeting.

So lots of stuff to support you.

And this week we're talking about how to stay confident during a job search.

So not the ins and outs of job searching itself, more the relentless

nature of times of actually searching for a new role, where I think often the initial

excitement that comes from exploring something new can wear off pretty quickly. And we were

talking about why you need to stay confident and why

sometimes you need to boost your belief. And I was reflecting that when you are looking for something

new, suddenly you have a load more rejection than I think you're used to in your job. And you're

putting in a lot of effort, sometimes feeling like you're getting very little reward from that effort.

So that sort of equation of like what I put in versus what I get back can often feel quite unequal and really draining.

Because if you are doing this well, you're applying for a job, you probably care about that role, you've thought about it.

You almost have to do a bit of that imagining yourself in that role.

What would I bring?

Could I get excited about that organisation or that position?

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