Viv’s Clarity Testimonial

One of the things I remember most about my time in Antarctica was how crisp and expansive everything felt.

Crisp... and almost entirely in three colors: blue, white, and granite. 🩵🤍🩶

There was nothing else.

For as far as the eye could see, the landscape was painted in those 3 shades. The sky, the water, the mountains—they were so vivid, it felt as though they'd waited lifetimes to reveal themselves exactly as they were.

I suppose they had.

Every so often, a glacier would calve into the sea, sending ripples across the water. The landscape would shift for a moment, and then everything would become still again.

True stillness.

Aside from a curious penguin or a seal floating nearby, there was nothing competing for my attention. No urgency or opinions. No pressure to look somewhere else.

I could see things as they were because they simply... were.

We rarely give ourselves permission to experience that kind of expansive stillness, especially during a job search.

It feels unproductive. Like every moment should be spent networking, applying, rewriting your résumé, or trying one more strategy.

There is always another article to read and another expert telling you the "right" way to land your next role.

🧊 Network more.

🧊 Apply faster.

🧊 Use AI.

🧊 Don’t use AI!

🧊 Rewrite your résumé.

🧊 Post on LinkedIn every day.

While each of these things is a piece of a strong job search (jury's out on the AI bit), when they all arrive at once, they become noise.

And in all that noise, people often lose sight of the one question that matters most: What do I actually want?

A client recently wrote something that perfectly captured why I believe clarity has to come before positioning:

"Our collaboration helped me narrow my search and more clearly define my experience, and led me to land a role that's absolutely perfect for me."

Most people assume success comes from casting a wider net: More applications, networking, platforms, advice.

Instead, we did the opposite and slowed down long enough to filter out the noise. We got honest about the work she wanted to do, where her experience fit, and how she wanted to show up in her next chapter.

Only then did we build her positioning around the strategy.

That's why I believe one of the biggest misconceptions about a job search is that finding clarity first slows you down!

In my experience, it's the opposite.

Clarity keeps you from spending months running in the wrong direction.

If your search has started to feel noisy—or you've become so busy chasing opportunities that you've lost sight of the one you actually want—I can help.

My Career Alignment Intensive is designed to create the space so many of us never give ourselves: the space to step back, reconnect with what matters, and build a career strategy around your strengths, goals, and definition of success.

Because once you know where you're going, everything else gets a whole lot clearer.