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The ICAEW Guide to Successful Job Search

Episode 3: The psychology of job search success

In the third podcast of The ICAEW Guide to Successful Job Search series, host Simon Gray, FCA, examines the impact attitudes and beliefs have on your ability to win the job you want.

To create the ICAEW Guide to Successful Job Search, ICAEW worked with Simon Gray, author of ‘Super Secrets of Successful Executive Job Search’ and founder of Career Codex, in addition to experts from across the recruitment and business world to share their knowledge of how to find and secure the job you want.

In Episode 3, ‘The psychology of job search success’, Gray focuses on the role of psychology and why the right mindset is essential to finding success in the job market. He explains the critical relationship between beliefs, thoughts and actions.

He argues that commonly held beliefs, such as “there are lots of candidates with more experience”, can become a self-fulfilling prophecy for jobseekers; resulting in highly skilled and capable candidates failing to find the success they deserve.

In this podcast, Gray details ways in which you can start to examine how you think about the job market and yourself, and make changes that will see you taking a more proactive and positive approach where you’re in complete control.

In this podcast Gray is joined by:

  • Jonathan Firth, Managing Director Michael Page Finance.

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Episode guide

You can listen to the rest of the series on icaew.com or on iTunes:

Episode Title Date available
Getting started 5 February 2016
The job market environment  12 February 2016 
The psychology of job search success  19 February 2016 
The importance of planning your job search  26 February 2016 
CVs that stand out and impactful cover letters  4 March 2016 
Getting in front of decision makers  11 March 2016 
The power of networking  18 March 2016 
Positioning yourself online  25 March 2016 
Delivering a first-class interview  01 April 2016 
10  Handling the offer and negotiation stage  08 April 2016 

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