This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want, and make a difference in life.

I'm your host, Mac Pritchard.

I'm also the founder of Max List.

It's a job board in the Pacific Northwest

that helps you find a fulfilling career.

Every Wednesday, I talk to a different expert

about the tools you need to get the work you want.

One of the obstacles you may face as you look for work might be yourself.

You may believe, for example, that you can't network well.

In fact, networking is a skill that anyone can learn.

Michelle Schaefer is here to talk about how to reframe your limiting beliefs in your job search.

She's a certified professional coach and a workshop facilitator.

Michelle helps you develop a job search strategy so you can find energizing work for

companies you're excited to work with.

She joins us from Ottawa, Canada.

Well, let's jump right into it, Michelle, and let's start by talking about how to recognize limiting beliefs.

What are limiting beliefs exactly?

Yeah, this is a really interesting topic to talk about because limiting beliefs are things that stand in our way.

And when we're talking about a job surge, these are things that will prevent us from taking action.

So a limiting belief is an

assumption. It's a judgment that we have about an activity or something that we're engaged in

that will stand as a roadblock. So as we're talking about networking, limiting beliefs can actually

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