Job Search Clarity

Job searching can feel like a maze of titles, salary guesses, and “what if it’s worse than what I have now?” We slow that whole spiral down and rebuild your career change from the inside out. This week, I’m sharing the practical mindset shifts and simple job search tips I use with clients who feel stuck between staying put, switching companies, or even choosing between entrepreneurship and full-time work.

We start with the part most people skip: getting painfully clear on why you’re leaving. “Bad boss” and “I’m not having fun” are real, but they’re not actionable until you define them. From there, we map your skills and separate what you can do from what you actually want to monetize, so you stop chasing roles that drain you. Then I share one of my favorite strategies: search words, not job titles. The language in job postings tells you more about culture and fit than a generic title ever will, and it can open up options you didn’t know existed.

We also zoom out to lifestyle design: hours, commute, remote work, and what matters outside your job. If the perfect role isn’t available yet, we talk about choosing the next best stepping-stone job that moves you closer while keeping your confidence intact. And yes, we touch money in a grounded way: know your baseline budget, price the lifestyle you want, and build a salary target with purpose.

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Welcome And What We Do Here

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hi friends, and welcome to Believe Like a Bot. I'm your host, Life Coach Nandi Camille. Join me as I teach you how to smash your goals and expand the possibility of your life through mindset management, spiritual alignment, and authentic action. I'll teach you how to create what I like to call a life of thrive with ease and authenticity. It's time to play with what's possible. Are you ready? Let's go.

SPEAKER_01 0:26

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to another episode of Believe Like a Boss. I am your host, life coach, Nandi Camille. All right, my friends, I hope you're doing so well as always. As we're diving in this week, we're talking about job searches. I'm talking about what to look for when you are going on your job search. I have a few clients that are in this era right now that they are on the fence between entrepreneurship and working full-time, or they're on the fence between staying in their full-time job or moving into a different full-time job, or just in general, are trying to navigate career right now. Where do I want to be? How do I want to use myself and my resources? How do I want to make money? Because there are so many different ways for us to make money. It's one of the things that I'm actually really personally passionate about is talking about money because we are taught to be a doctor, be a lawyer, be an engineer, be a veterinarian, be a teacher, be a firefighter, be a policeman, be a uh, what's another common job that we're told in schools? Be an astronaut, be an author, right? There's there's so many jobs that are given to us, but it is not exhaustive. And

Get Clear On Why You’re Leaving

SPEAKER_01 1:34

I think the other thing that was frustrating for me growing up was that not only was I not educated about all of the jobs, and there's no way to actually do that, but I just, as I reflected growing up, I was always frustrated that there were only so many jobs that were told to us when I knew that there were thousands upon thousands of different kinds of jobs that were not told to children, that were not explained to children. And to, you know, an adult's point that is talking to kids about jobs. Maybe you're not explaining an administrative assistant because adults assume a child's not going to be excited about being a professional organizer. That's what an administrative assistant is. You are professionally um employed to organize, to organize systems, to organize calendars, to make sure your space, your whatever entity you're taking care of, whether you're an executive assistant in an administrative role or you're the administrative assistant of a school, right? Your job is to organize. And so even that job was not, I felt, was not explained to me as a kid. It was all of these other things. So there's one thought. Then the next thought beyond that is when we talked about jobs, it was like this job uses these skills. This job uses these skills, which is great. But then what didn't happen, in my opinion, was that we didn't talk about money. We didn't talk about, okay, pilots make $100,000 a year, uh, teacher makes about $50,000 a year. It was more so, this was my experience. I always love an email. So send me an email, hello at nautycamille.com if you have a different opinion. But it was more so, these jobs make a lot of money. Maths and sciences make a lot of money. That's the whole story. There's nothing, there was that's really truly how I felt like I was raised when it came to careers. Like you're gonna be a doctor, lawyer, engineer, you need to be in the maths and the sciences in order to make money. If you're not in the maths or the sciences, then you're doing a passion project that will never make you any money. Good luck. It's how it felt for me growing up, right? And so I want to I want to go into these discussions. I want to talk about job searching in a different way because this for me, I am very passionate about money, jobs, career. We spend so much of our time in our career. On average, for most of us, we're spending eight hours a day in our job. Now, when I say job, stay-at-home mom is a job. This is for the person that is looking for their next thing. You might be a stay-at-home mom looking for a job. I have a friend that's doing that right now. You might have a job, but you want to be a stay-at-home mom. You want to switch jobs, right? Both are valid. All jobs are valid. This conversation today that on the podcast, I'm talking about the person or talking to the person that is ready to search for another job, that is ready to change their job. We're not talking about money in particular today. We're not talking about this job makes you this money, consider this over here. We're not talking about money mindset in particular today, but it is something to consider when looking for a job. And that's what we're talking about. So let's say that you're looking for a job. Let's say that you're looking to make a change in your life. You're in a line of work that is no longer serving you, that you're in a line of work that you no longer want to be in, whether it's because it doesn't pay you enough, you don't like your boss, you don't like how you're using your skills, you get to have whatever reason you have. But I want you to really look at your reasons because your reasons don't go away. So if your reason is I'm leaving this job, I'm wanting to leave this job because I have a bad boss. I want you to get clear on what it means to have a bad boss. I know that that seems like maybe a silly thing for me to ask you to do, but truly, when you say I have a bad boss, what does that mean? Because that means different things to different people. Does that mean they're not paying you well enough? Does that mean that your boss doesn't actually even know what your name is? Does that mean that your boss always forgets that you're a vegetarian, even though you've been with a company for five years, and every time there's a company get together, you have to go then order your own thing and they don't think about you? Is it that you literally have a boss that speaks to you in a way that is, it feels insubordinate, it feels rude, it feels disrespectful. What does it mean if you have a bad boss? If the reason that you're leaving the job is because I'm not having fun, I need you to get clear on what does it mean to have fun at your job? Because I truly do believe you can and should, this is where I will shit on you, have fun in your work. Not 100% of the time, that is not possible. Just like 100% happiness 100% of the time is not possible, right? But we can find jobs that we genuinely enjoy doing that work. So if the reason why why you're wanting to leave your job is I'm not having fun, then get clear on what fun means to you. So whatever the reason is that you're not wanting to be at your current job, I need you to get really clear on what that is first and foremost, so that you're not blindly applying to other jobs asking for the same problem. All right, and that's a whole other episode. We can talk about interviews and interview questions and how you can get a lot of your information of is this going to be a good fit purely from your interview questions and how the company that you're interviewing with is going through their interview process. So many people don't even want to apply to another job because they're like, I don't know what's going to be like over here. I know what my crap is like over here, but I don't know what the crap is gonna be like over there. I don't want a chance going over there and not knowing what it's gonna be like. My offering to you is if you are genuinely unhappy at your job, it is worth looking around and seeing what else is out there. It is worth having a conversation about how you might be happier somewhere else, not for the sake of looking over your shoulders, the grass green or somewhere else. Because I want to get really clear on that. What do you love about your job? What do you not like about your job? Because when you go out into the world, I want you to be so clear on what you love about your job because that's why we're doing this work. Not to run away from what we don't like, but to run towards what we do want, right? Does that does that make sense? Are you picking up what I'm putting down, my friends? As always, take what six do you leave the rest. So let's say you're going to look for a new job. You've gotten clear on why you're leaving your current job.

List Skills You Want To Monetize

SPEAKER_01 7:37

Now I want you to get clear on your skills. What skills do you have that you want to use in a job? So you have a job right now and you're frustrated. Why? My boss, this, that. Okay, cool. If it's your boss, great, that doesn't have to do with your skills. If it's the skills that you're using, I don't like. Let's go back to our administrative assistant example. I don't like being an organizer for other people anymore. I want a job where I work outside. I'm inside, I'm at a desk all the time. I want a job where I get to work outside. I've been gardening more at home. I'm enjoying gardening. I could see myself using my gardening skills in a nursery, right? What skills that do you have that you want to use in a monetization type of way? What skills do you want to monetize? What skills do you want to get paid for? I think that this is such a great question because let's go to me and my sister. Besides being a life coach, I'm also a bar teacher, so I'm teaching bar classes. I've been doing that for a few years. My sister recently got her Pilates certification, but then she chose not to teach. What skills do you have that you want to monetize? I want to make money as a fitness instructor. I've been a cycling instructor, I'm a bar instructor. Maybe we do yoga in the future, we'll see. I enjoy being paid to use my fitness instructing skills. If I'm teaching a dance class or I'm teaching a bar class, I enjoy getting paid to use those skills. My sister, on the other hand, at this time in her life, not the case. She has a Pilates certificate. She has no desire to monetize it. She really wanted to have the information, have the know-how of how does Pilates work? How does it work in the body? What is my body doing? What are we doing on these reformers? Great. She just wanted to learn. That's a skill that she has, but she does not want to monetize it. So check in for you. Make a list. What are your skills? Just make a list of your skills. I'm good at cooking, I'm good at crafting, I'm good at listening, I'm good at organizing, I'm good at helping people, helping people how, right? Make a list of what you think you are good at. What are your skills? Now, from that list, which of those skills do you want to use to make money? And I hope that there are multiple. And if there's just one or two, there's one or two. That's totally fine, right? But what skills do you actually want to use to make money? That is our work. Right? That's how we find work that's meaningful, that's purposeful, that we feel excited to do, even though there are hard parts to it.

Find Roles By Searching Keywords

SPEAKER_01 10:07

Another fun thing that I like to offer when people are doing a job search is to not search jobs, but search words. Search words. That was one of my favorite things to do anytime I've looked for a job in the past. I've always used the word fun. I will literally just search the word fun, F-U-N. Because for me, when I'm thinking about something that's creating a job post, I want to work for the company that has the creative fun people in the marketing, in the HR, on their teams, because they're gonna use words like fun in their job post. I want to work for that company. Whereas somebody else might hear that and be like, no, I don't want to work for a company that uses fun in their job description. Absolutely not. I'm more serious than that. And I'm not making fun of that. I'm being honest and transparent with that. Maybe you are more serious and you don't want a job that has fun in the description. Again, my background's in education. And so I said, I don't want to do anything stuffy. I want to do something fun. And so if I search fun, I'm more likely to find things that have to do with kids, that have to do with camps, that have to do with play spaces versus other words that I could have used, right? So use words fun, play, lead, team, create, creative. What are words that would be in your ideal job description? Stop thinking about the the whole like the title, right? Trying to rack your brain of like what would be the title of a person that does these things. Write down the things from your skills list. Are there three skills on there that you would love to monetize? Just type the skill into the search box wherever you're searching, whether it's Indeed or ZipRecruiter or Google or wherever you're looking for your jobs, right? Just type in the word. If the skill is weaving, type in weaving on Indeed and see what comes up. Just see what comes up. I think that is such a fun way to job search and take the pressure off. Now, here's another thing to think about when you're

Choose Work That Fits Your Lifestyle

SPEAKER_01 12:00

doing your job search. I want you to consider your lifestyle. And I know, again, this feels very elementary. Okay, of course I'm considering my lifestyle naughty, but I don't know that we always consider our lifestyles enough. When I say consider your lifestyle, what are you willing to do? What are you not willing to do? When do you need to be home? When do you want to be home? What kind of lifestyle do you want to have? Do you see yourself working full time still if you're working full time and you're looking for another job? Do you want a job that has 30 hours a week instead of 40 hours a week? Do you want to work 20 hours a week instead of 40 hours a week? Do you want to work 40 hours a week, but it needs to be close to your house so that it's only a 10-minute, 15-minute drive? So it's not so much of a commute. Do you not want to commute at all and you want to work remote? This is what I mean when I say consider your lifestyle. If you were to truly like close your eyes and imagine your most ideal life, every little detail you get to create, how you wake up, when you wake up, what you do, how you do it, when you do it, where you do it, who you do it with. Get as clear as you can. The purpose of this is not to control, because as clear as we can get, that's really great. It's not likely going to manifest exactly the way we're visualizing it. That's not the point. The point is when you get clear on what you're visualizing, oh, I actually really would love a job where I'm getting up early, I'm starting my day early, I'm starting at 6.37 a.m. I'm done no later than 2.33 p.m. in the afternoon. If I'm taking an hour-long lunch, I'm done no later than 4 p.m. in the afternoon. And then from there, because I'm envisioning the whole lifestyle, I'm able to come home, have dinner, and then go to my rugby practice or go to my team kickball or go to my girls' night on Wednesday nights. I want you to think about your entire lifestyle. What is important to you outside of work? I think that's another way to think about it. What is important to you outside of work? That will then inform the type of work that then fits into your life. And I know that sometimes we can get into a place where, well, that's all fine and dandy naughty, but I've been looking for jobs, I've been looking for my ideal, and I'm not getting anything right now. Fair. What is the next best choice? If right now you cannot find the ideal job of you being a wedding planner because you want to work on weekends and evenings, you don't want to work Monday through Friday during the day, or when you do work Monday through Friday, because you're planning weddings, it's phone calls and it's emails and you get to work remote during that time. But then Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, you know you are on. That is the ideal lifestyle that you want. And right now you're having a hard time finding that. What do you think is the next best thing? I want to ask you that first. And then ask, like, truly ask yourself that. I've been in a rut, I've been trying to find my ideal job. I haven't found my ideal job. What is the next best thing? And I want you to trust the answer that comes up. Truly, truly. My job as a life coach is not to tell you how to live your life, is to give you the tools so that you can decide on your own what is best for you. I cannot do that for you. So I want you to trust yourself. What would be the next best step? Now, my offering for that is to find a job that's going to support you in a stepping stone type of way to get to where you want to be. So again, if you can't find that wedding planner job, is there a job in the wedding industry that you can get? Is there a job around planning that's maybe not in the wedding industry? Event planning that you can do that's more than weddings, that's bar mitzvahs and birthday parties and sweet 16s. What would be the next best thing that's going to allow you to do work that is similar to the ideal work you're wanting to do? Because here's what I'm going to affirm for you: you get to do the ideal work you want to do. This is a stepping stone. So, what is a stepping stone you want to put on your resume that's going to give you the skills to get a step closer to where you want to be? When I was in education, which is still perpetually will always be in education, but when I first started my uh career, I honestly just knew I wanted to play. I that I knew nothing else. I knew I wanted to play and I knew I wanted to make $40,000, and that was literally all I knew coming out of college. So I started my first job at my gym children's fitness center in Arvada, and I was an um like a gym teacher for small children, literally six months to 12 years old. Taught dance classes. I'm over here tumbling babies for mommy and me classes, patting on the floor, singing songs. I had a lot of fun. But as I continued to do that work, there was this itch inside of me that I knew I wanted to be in leadership. That was now what was coming up. I went from I just I want to make $40,000 and I want to play, I want to be with kids. Now

Use Stepping Stones To Get There

SPEAKER_01 16:25

there's this little itch inside of me of like, I want to be in leadership. Right. And so going from a gym teacher, part-time gym teacher, to stepping into leadership, when you think leadership, you think school principal, directors, things like that, right? I was nowhere near being ready to be a director. So what was the next best step? Being a preschool teacher. Why? Because that gave me leadership over an entire classroom. Instead of now meeting parents in a c in a it was a gym space, um, and parents would come in, they'd be with their kiddos. So instead of helping parents with their kiddos, now parents are dropping their kiddos off, and I am now in charge of this whole space for this whole day, ensuring that these children that are within my care are cared for, seen, heard, valued, and educated appropriately. Beyond that, I'm now then talking to parents about how this education process is going. So I'm gaining leadership skills. Now, as I'm in this preschool position, I'm getting the itch again. I want to be in more leadership. Why? Because I noticed poor leadership. I said, I don't have a good boss. And I got clear on what that was. My bosses over here are speaking to people in a way that I find disrespectful, not giving people raises to the effect that I believe people should be getting raises. People are not being supported in the way that I think that people should be supported. So I want to step into a leadership position so that I can impact the change or create the change, create the impact that I so deeply want as a teacher. So then from there, I stepped into an assistant director position. Right? What is your next best step? From that assistant director position, I got into a director position. From that director position, I then got into bigger leadership positions where I'm now directing not just one program, but multiple programs, right? What is your next best stepping stone? When you are looking for this job, I want you to do so with so much optimism. And I know that is easier said than done. If you have been looking for a job for a long time, this is going to sound very annoying. And I'm sorry. I'm I truly do mean that. I apologize that I'm triggering you right now. And I'm gonna hold you to a high standard because I know that what you want wants you back. And if you don't know what you want, I know that you know how you want to feel. So get clear on how do you want to feel when you go into work? How do you want to feel when you're doing your work? How do you want to feel about the stuff you're doing that's giving you money? If you don't know what you want to do, I'm sure you know how you want to feel.

Budget Goals And Money Relationship

SPEAKER_01 18:50

And I bet you, you I also know, or you also know rather, how much money you want to make. Now I want to get clear on this too. I feel like this is a whole different podcast episode on mindset and money, but I want to talk on this for a second. When it comes to money, I this is laughable because it feels very again elementary. It feels like a lot of things I'm saying today are elementary, but I say it with love, and I say it because I need these reminders too. I need these elementary reminders. So, reminder for you all when you're thinking about money and how much money you want to make, please get clear on your budget. There's some of you that have already done that, and I didn't need to say that, but some of you have not. You don't actually know how much money you need to make. You don't. I need you to get really clear on how much money do you actually need to make to pay your bills, to pay for your gas, for your groceries, for your electric bill, for your savings that you're doing every single month? What is that baseline amount? Then from there, what are the fun things you want to do? And then do the math on that. Are you a girly that truly does want to go on a weekend adventure, a overnight weekend adventure once a month? Or are you thinking I want to fly to see my family every three months? How much is that gonna cost? Or are you wanting to go to Dubai, you want to go overseas every single month, right? How much is that gonna cost? If you're wanting a massage every single month because you chose work that is very um taxing on your body, right? And so you're like, I have a lifestyle in my mind where I get massages. You need to do the math on that, my friend. That is going to give you the best example of what money you actually not only need to make, but want to make. I do this with clients all of the time. I want to make more money. Well, how much money do you want to make? I don't know. Okay, well, let's get clear on what your baseline is for how much you need in order to survive. And then from there, get clear on what is the lifestyle you want? How much does that lifestyle cost? Now you have your budget, now you have the amount that you need to be making or want to be making, right? And from such a grounded place, instead of this, just like, you know, kind of lick your finger, stick it in the air, see which way the wind is blowing, kind of vibes. No, like from this grounded, no, I want to make 78,000. I want to make 110,000, I want to make 1.2 million because X, Y, and Z. I know exactly where my money is going. And let me tell you this on the note of money. This is gonna sound a little woo-woo, but I love it. As always, take with six, you leave the rest. Money wants a place to go. We have a relationship with money. We have a relationship with everything. And I want you to think about your relationship with money. If you're over here like, I just want to make a million dollars, but you don't really know where that money's going, how you're going to use it, how you're going to spend it, think about it. I want you to truly think about it like a relationship. Put yourself in the perspective of money. Oh, I just want a lot of you. I don't know what I'm gonna do with you, but I just want a lot of you. Like, that feels so rude to me, to money. Money wants purpose. Money wants to know that, like, oh, not only do you want me, but you're gonna spend me on this and you're gonna save me there, and you have purpose for me. That's serves me so much when it comes to money and my thoughts about it, more so than like, I just want to make this much. Why do you want to make this much? And then go a little bit deeper. What is your relationship like with money? If money was a person, how do you treat money? That's a whole other podcast episode because I'm literally about to go tangenting on money and money mindset. But the the purpose of today, my friends, is job searching. So for my friends that are on the hunt, that are looking for a career shift, that are looking to go somewhere else, these are my tips, my tricks, my tools of the trade to help you find a job that checks your boxes, that makes you feel good when you wake up. Again, we're not looking for perfection, but a job in which you get to use your skills in a way that feels meaningful. You're making money in a way that feels meaningful. You feel purposeful in your work. It feels rewarding, it feels good, you're having fun. I want that for you, my friend. As always, take what sticks you, leave the rest.

Programs Coaching And Closing

SPEAKER_01 22:52

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