SECURE the Job Journey - Day 41
Plan for the Day
Prep for the Energy Consultant interview
Finish sprucing up the Budget spready
What I Actually Executed
Everything!!! I wanted to go lighter on the number of tasks. Plus the Budget spready required a lot of work. I didn't want to feel rushed and divided mentally. I’m gonna start putting fewer tasks on my plan for the day. I’m seeing that it helps my productivity.
Results/Updates
I’m over the moon about this interview!!! I got my words together with this interview prep workflow I created. I’m not even nervous! I’m excited to share!! Oh and remember those one-way interviews from some time back…? Yea me too.. They sent their rejection emails. Oh well!
Reflection
Prepping for this interview, I had several epiphanies. I think I will call this segment….
Elizabeth’s Epiphanies!!
….y’know for that alliteration
Epiphany #1
I was fighting off a lot of neggy (negative) thoughts this week. In my devo (devotional) time earlier, I connected 2 Corinthians 10:5 (which basically tells us to take thoughts captive) to Philippians 4:8 (which basically instructs us how to). I used the amplified version of Philippians 4:8 to create a checklist for the thoughts I will center my mind on and implant into my heart:
Is it true?
Is it honorable & worthy of respect?
Is it right & confirmed by God’s word?
Is it pure & wholesome?
Is it lovely & brings peace?
Is it admirable & of good repute?
Is there any excellence in it?
Is there anything worthy of praise in it?
I spent some of the day using it to argue with the neggy thoughts hitting me LEFT and RIGHT today. I felt like doing that helped me not feel helpless and have some weapons to fight back. Draggin those thoughts through that Philippians 4:8 checklist helps me spend more time interrogating the thoughts and thinking ABOUT the thought instead of JUST THINKING the thought.
Elizabeth’s Epiphany #2
I finally got it! I know what unique perspectives I bring to these data roles. Storytelling!! Working on the policy side of things I learned how to put words to feelings, but now we are in a time where data is important and we gotta put numbers on the feelings. Whether it's a building, a community, or a fleet of cars, to address sustainability issues, we have to embark on storytelling with not only words, but with numbers as well. Having those words validate what is felt, but the numbers.. THOSE NUMBERS… SIS!! Those numbers help us to strategically and creatively develop roadmaps to reaching the overall goal of decarbonization.
Elizabeth’s Epiphany #3
Wow. Even though the first interview this week for the sustainability analyst role didn’t go as well as I liked (I honestly could be in my head), it at least showed me that I need to focus on being more authentic than impressive. My authenticity is the secret sauce! It’s already impressive. I have the energy consultant position tomorrow so I’m ready for that now! I have a starting point. Storytelling. Literally talking to myself in the shower about the joy I feel creating my Budget Spready, Job-SECURING Spready, and my 12 Week Year Spready led me to my anchor for what to hold onto when I interview for jobs and they ask for my WHY. Just storytelling. It’s authentic, and hey… maybe even impressive.
Elizabeth’s Epiphany #4
Don’t just try to sound impressive. I need to look at my AMAZING experiences in the sustainability space! I need to take all that and connect what I loved most about past projects to the role. Storytelling sis! I meannnnnnnn that’s why I took up blogging and LOVED creative writing classes as a kid. I need to just tell it like I’m telling a story. It flows soooooo much better. I don’t get tongue-tied or choked by this English trying to use big grammar. I convey BIG passion instead.
