You don’t need more time to job search. You need this.

“I don’t have time to job search.”

I hear this all the time from smart, capable mid-career professionals.

And I get it.

When you’re working full-time, your days are packed.

Back-to-back meetings.
High expectations.
Very little energy left at the end of the day.

The idea of networking, updating your resume, preparing for interviews, and doing it all “properly” can feel overwhelming before you even start.

Especially if you’ve already spent months spinning your wheels on resume advice or even services that didn’t actually move things forward.

Here’s what I learned the hard way:

It’s not that you don’t have time.

It’s that most people burn hours on things that don’t move the needle:

Applying to roles that were never a real fit
Tweaking their resume endlessly without clarity
Scrolling job boards with no real strategy

When I finally got strategic in my own job search years ago, everything changed.

I stopped doing busy work.

I focused on high-impact actions.

I built a plan that worked alongside a demanding job, not on top of it.

That’s exactly what I now help my clients do, and why many of them start landing interviews without turning their job search into a second full-time job.

One client only spent 2 hours a week on his job search and landed 2 back to back offers for growth roles with a significant bump in pay.

With 2026 right around the corner, this is the moment to ask yourself: