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Looking for a new job or want to move up in your company? Lesa teaches you the tools and strategies you need to land your dream job, increase your promotability, and successfully navigate your career.

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361: Preparing for a Job Search in 2026

It’s a very different job search landscape out there - AI agents are inundating employers with resumes on behalf of candidates, Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) may screen you out before the humans ever see your materials, and employers are increasingly making candidates jump through multiple hoops before making an offer.

In this episode, I give you a checklist for effective job searching in 2026, as well as my best tips for success.

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360: Why Now Really is a Good Time for a Job Search

There is so much confusion around the job market right now...Are jobs actually available? How do I find and apply for them? Why does everything feel so impersonal?

In this episode of The Exclusive Career Coach, I drill down on some stats around the current job market and uncover the actual problem. I then provide several solutions for sucessfully navigating the job market. 

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302: Job Market Prognosis for 2024

There is a lot of confusion about the current job market – perhaps the most I’ve ever heard of outside of the 2008 recession. I wanted to bring you some facts today – as well as a translation of those facts into action steps you can take to increase your chances of success.

Here are five economic trends that will shape the job market for 2024:

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239: Prepping for the Final Hiring Push of the Year

The usual cadence of hiring is this: The biggest push of the year occurs mid-January through March; the second-biggest push occurs after Labor Day until early- to mid-November. So let’s go with there being one more chance to get hired in 2022. This episode will help you get in good job-searching shape for if you’ve been searching for a while, or even if you just started looking, by providing some active job search options you can throw into your search strategy.

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004: The Hidden Job Market

The Hidden Job Market doesn’t mean employers are trying to hide from you. Instead, one of the best ways to expand your network is through LinkedIn. In this podcast episode, I explain how to utilize LinkedIn to expand your job network and connections.

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229: Best of The Exclusive Career Coach: 5 Ways Mind Drama Can Creep into Your Job Search (with guest Jane Springer)

This week I'm excited to share a "Best of the Exclusive Career Coach podcast" episode — I speak with life coach Jane Springer on the types of mind drama I hear from clients related to the current job market, their qualifications, themselves as human beings, their job search strategy, and their career focus.

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192: What's REALLY Going On With the Job Market

We’re hearing a lot about “The Great Resignation” of 2021 and the volatile job market. I wanted to personally do a deep dive on this topic, and decided to share what I uncovered with you guys. The topics I’ll cover today consist of what is going on, what the costs are, where the most vacancies are and which industries are still hurting, and Microsoft’s reported 7 trends for returning to the office.

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