Why Your First Job Applications Don’t Work (And That’s Normal)
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Vanessa discusses the normalcy of initial failures in job applications using the analogy of making pancakes.
Send us Fan Mail What do pancakes have to do with changing careers? More than you might think. Anyone who has ever made pancakes knows the truth: the first pancake is almost always a mess. The pan isn’t quite hot enough. The batter spreads oddly. You flip it too soon or too late. And yet… we never panic about the first pancake. We expect it. So why do we expect perfection when we’re trying something new in our careers? In this episode of Teachers in Transition, Vanessa explores how the “first...
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