In this episode of Building the Best You, Jeanne Collins sits down with Nicki Perchik, founder and CEO of The NLP Group, a boutique executive search firm.

They discuss the realities of today's job market and how to approach career transitions with confidence, resilience, and intention. Drawing on nearly two decades of executive recruiting experience, Nicki shares practical job search strategies, from leveraging LinkedIn and building meaningful professional relationships to using AI effectively and telling your authentic career story.

Together, they explore the importance of emotional intelligence, overcoming rejection, setting realistic expectations, and finding balance between professional success and personal well-being.

Whether you're actively searching for a job, considering a career pivot, or looking to strengthen your professional brand, this conversation offers actionable tools and a refreshing mindset shift to help you navigate uncertainty, embrace new opportunities, and take ownership of your career growth.

Book recommendations from Nicki: Sacred Hoops and The Alchemist

More about Nicki:

Nicki Perchik is the Founder and CEO of The NLP Group, a boutique executive search firm she launched in 2008. Over the years, she’s helped hundreds of companies hire thousands of professionals. She’s also had the privilege of coaching and counseling thousands of people as they’ve navigated the often challenging—and sometimes downright frustrating—world of job searching and advancing their careers.

Early on, Nicki noticed something that’s never changed: really smart, incredibly accomplished people often make surprisingly simple, easy-to-avoid mistakes when job searching and interviewing. And those mistakes can derail even the best opportunities—because when it comes to hiring, the best candidate on paper isn’t always the one who gets the job.

That realization eventually led her to write A Recruiter’s Truly Simple Guide to Stop F*cking Up When Job Searching & Interviewing and, more recently, to create her Tough Truths series on LinkedIn—candid lessons drawn from nearly 20 years in recruiting about hiring, interviewing, networking, career growth, and all the stuff nobody really tells you.

www.thenlpgroup.net

linkedin.com/in/nicoleperchik

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