- Hey there.
So in this video I'm filming it at the time
when we are going through a global pandemic
and a lot of people are greatly affected by it
and I've been getting a lot of emails about
how I think this is gonna affect their job hunt
and what you should be doing in this time
in order to still advance in your career as much as you can,
but while being realistic.
So I wanted to address that today and talk about
some of my views and help you navigate this time
as best you possibly can in this interesting time
in our lives.
So stay tuned.
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When I started getting all these questions about it,
I started to research what other people were saying
and kind of started to look at some other blog posts
about how coronavirus is going to affect
their job hunt, right?
And what I found was not matching up with what I believed
and with what was actually happening with what I was seeing
and where I was shining my flashlight.
So that's what I'm gonna start with
is I'm gonna explain to you that in any situation
you have the power to shine a flashlight
on wherever is serving you the most, right?
So there's a lot of truths, right?
For example, we'll see a lot of companies
putting hiring on hold, pausing positions.
We'll see a lot of companies leaving positions up
and then not hiring for them right now.
So people are kind of not sure if they should apply,
if those positions are still open or not
and then we'll have a lot of people saying to me,
oh well, these companies are pausing, their hiring.
So we know that that is a thing that's happening
and that is true, right?
And we can choose to accept that,
shine the flashlight there and leave it, right?
And just be like, okay,
make a decision based on that information.
However, we also have the choice
to shine the flashlight somewhere else.
The way that the flashlight analogy works,
and this I'll explain it a little bit more clearly,
is if you've got a very dark room
and you can't see anything in the room, right?
And in one corner there might be one thing
on the other side of the room there might be another thing.
So if you take your flashlight
and you shine it on the dark corner
where there's some cobwebs and some garbage,
that's what you're gonna see.
But you can also take that same flashlight
and you could shine it to the other side of the room
and you can kind of look around
to what else is in this room, right?
What else is this room about?
What else can this room offer you?
What might you want to take from this room?
And you might see a beautiful big bouquet
of flowers sitting on a table.
You might see some boxes that are unpacked, right?
You might not know what's in those boxes.
You might see some bags,
so you don't know what's in them.
You might see some dust.
So, you might see all these things, right?
And then like on one side you might see like, dead bodies,
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not to be too morbid or extreme, right?
But everything in the room is still there.
But you get to choose where you shine the flashlight.
That's what I'm presenting for this particular situation.
We can shine the flashlight on the jobs
that are being paused
on the companies that are stopping their hiring for now.
We can shine our flashlight on the open positions
that are not really open or we can shine our flashlight
on the opportunity that is being created right now.
Opportunity exists in a crisis and there's always
the choice to see that instead.
While it may not be the same opportunity
that was available before,
there is absolutely 100%
still opportunities available, okay?
And they're gonna come from different places
and they're gonna come from a different need
and they're gonna come from a completely different place
because of what's going on.
So for example, Amazon hiring like crazy, grocery stores,
hiring like crazy, even giving people raises,
companies that are doing really well.
Disaster management, crisis management companies,
lots of technology companies that help
with virtual operations, email marketing companies.
Any company that is virtual that already work from home,
companies that help integrate one software
to another software.
So there are opportunities available, right?
And some of them are even bigger
and they've been heightened, right?
Because of this new demand that's been created, right?
That is all still there.
Just as, you know, if you wanna become a flight attendant,
the opportunity is gonna be scarcer for you
and that in this situation is probably something
that you're not gonna get around at this moment.
Yet there are still things you could do to prepare yourself
for when everything comes back,
but you can also shift your focus on what you can do
right now with the new demand and the new need.
For example, while pilots are being laid off,
the military has a need for pilots now, right?
And they're gonna be hiring quite a few of those pilots,
so there's always a new way to look at it
but the thing that happens with most of us
is that we don't see that new way to look at it
because we are on default
looking at the information that's put in front of us,
which is normally the information
that I referred to at the beginning,
which is gonna be,
there's physicians that are getting put on hold,
there's job postings that are no longer valid, right?
And that's the stuff you're gonna see on a daily basis
unless you go looking for the other.
More opportunities,
like it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
to get certain stocks at certain prices right now, right?
All the stocks are on sale right now, right?
Great companies.
And the thing that I find very interesting
is that we have a scarcity mentality
around everything, right?
We think that everything is just disappearing
and like drying up and going away, right?
And when we look at it in that way,
it's very scary for us.
We're like, oh my God,
like hang on to your money and don't do anything, right?
'Cause you never know what's like, you know,
safety, survival mode is where we go.
But the truth is that we haven't actually lost that money.
They sold the money in the stock market,
the stock market went down
because people sold their stocks, right?
They got scared and they sold stocks.
Therefore the money that they got back
went into their bank account, right?
And everybody did that.
So it created this effect of everything going down.
But everything hasn't disappeared.
Everything has not gone.
Everything has just rearranged, right?
So the money is in different places now,
different companies have demand than they did before.
The world is changing,
but it is not disappearing and the scarcity is an illusion.
So this is just my view,
this is how I choose to see it.
And this is something that serves me really well
because then I get my mind moving and thinking
on creative things that, creative solutions
and opportunities that are needed and things that work.
And I'm able to help my clients at a higher level
because this is how I'm choosing to think about it, right?
And not everybody is gonna choose that.
And a lot of the time on default, like I mentioned,
we will choose to view it in scarcity
and choose to view that everything is shutting down
and nothing is working and there's no possibility anywhere.
And again, that's a choice to shine the flashlight
on those things because I'm not saying they're not there,
they're definitely happening and that's true.
But when we're only focused on that and we accept
that as that, and that's the end of it,
then we miss out on all the other things
that are happening in the world still, right?
And both options are true.
So if you're going to give airtime to the 50% of,
well the percentage of things that appear to be scarce
and appear to be disappearing,
then also give some airtime in your brain
to the things that are not, right?
To the things that are now thriving,
the things that are changing in a positive way,
the things where opportunities are being created.
I've heard it on the news that it could be
a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for some people
to get really rich right now.
And that will happen, right?
And some people will lose all their money right now
and that will happen, right?
It's going to be a flip side here and then a flip side here,
but both possibilities exist
and that's just what I wanna get the point across to you.
So I'm not saying that I'm dismissing any
of the stuff that's happening,
I'm not saying that I want to put on rose-colored glasses
and ignore everything.
I just wanna say choose where you're focusing your brain
in a way that can serve you.
Some people will say
stop saying this is an opportunity like this is tragedy
and it's crisis and it's bad and you can choose that
and that's fine, but then where is the upside, right?
It's like, okay, you win, everything sucks
and if you wanna choose that then go for it, right?
Like I'm not gonna tell you
how to think or what to do, right?
I'm just presenting an option for you, right?
Just keep that in mind and also keep in mind
that the default news and the default input information
is always going to lead you to the side of scarcity.
The side of nothing is working.
The side of, you know, you should just wait and see,
hang on to everything, don't do anything, right?
And I see it as an opportunity because I choose to.
And because I choose to,
I find the opportunities and I see the things
that other people are missing
and I am able to create success from those things, right?
And it's simply because I'm choosing to see it that way.
So however you choose to see the situation
it's completely up to you.
And there you have it.
You have a choice,
one thought path or the other thought path, right?
And there's lots in between too.
So the biggest thing I want you to take home is
choose your thoughts intentionally.
How do you want to think and how do you want
to feel about the situation?
Right?
And you might wanna feel sad sometimes
and that's fine, right?
But depending on what you wanna do
and where you wanna be in two months,
six months, a year from now,
think of how what you're thinking to yourself now
is gonna serve you, right?
What could you be missing by thinking about everything
being down and nothing working
and you're just waiting, right?
What could that mean for you
versus the opposite option, right?
So you have to decide that for yourself
and I'm just presenting one way of thinking.
I've also seen it very possible to get a better job
right now even during this pandemic,
and I'm going to invite you to a free training
that I'm doing a free workshop where I'm gonna show you
the new system to get a better job in 30 days
even during the pandemic.
I'm going to show you some evidence of this being done
and if you stay till the end,
I'm going to be giving you the exact cover letter
and resume that achieved this exact results.
If you are interested in that,
click the link below to get signed up
and I will see you on that training.
If you don't know me, my name is Natalie Fisher,
I'm a career mindset coach.
You can visit my website at www.nataliefisher.ca
for that workshop and more free resources.
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All right, thank you so much and I will see you next week.