How to regain from burnout and regain confidence?

If you have a few weeks until interview, and are feeling tired, I would suggest the following. 

Take a few days to relax and recover on your sleep. By the way, you should make an effort to be disciplined and make sure you are having enough rest everyday. On a side note, you should actually avoid doing a lot of preparation when you are feeling tired and overwhelmed. Otherwise you will actually gain a lot of bad habits (e.g. “lazy” structuring or market sizing just because you are exhausted). So take it easy now and make up for it later.

Make a comprehensive plan starting from now up until the interview, and leave a bit of buffer here and there, for things you realize in the meantime that you need to study / prepare. A lot of stress comes from not having a plan. If you feel insecure about the plan, have a coaching session focusing on that plan. It should give you peace of mind having someone experienced giving you a plan you can trust. 

When building then plan, be wise about the things that you should stop allocating time to, outside of case preparation. What I mean is that fine tune the ammount of social life, tv watching, facebook, going out, exercise, and even “extra mile at work” that you want to have during this time. In other words, don't just plan your “study time”, plan how you will make up time for your study time (and your rest).

Hope this helps, and feel free to reach out if you want to further discuss / have an open conversation in private.

This is such a great question!

I'm sorry to hear you're going through such tough times and I can only imagine how difficult it must be to practice while holding on to a full-time job at the same time. I was fortunate enough to only have prep on my mind when I was applying, but I know from my coachees how much juggling that involves. I have a few tips:

1. Slow down. If you feel like you need to go faster, do more, the do the opposite. Take more time off. Take restorative time off (walk through a forest, read a book, go for a long walk listening to your favorite album). Slowly you're going to get more clarity on where you are and what you need to do. 

2. Meditate. Use an app like Headspace or Calm. Try to do it daily, morning and evening for at least ten minutes. Try to enjoy it and take it seriously. It's an amazing practice and it's scientifically proven to help you get a calmer, clearer mind. Honestly, there are fewer things better than this in terms of resetting your mindset. 

3. Consider postponing the interview. That's totally fine as a practice. It's critical that for the interview you are confident, feeling good and high. No firm will mind if you decide to push the process by a couple of weeks. Reach out to the recruiter, claim personal issues, and ask for time. 

That's about as much as I can say outside in. Hang in there. You're going to be fine. Best of luck!  

Hi there,

First of all, I am sorry to hear how you feel at the moment!

This is indeed an interesting question which is probably relevant for quite a lot of users, so I am happy to provide my perspective on it:

• In order to improve your mood/ mindset, I would advise you to take things slowly even if you feel you should do even more for your preparation. You are in a specific situation unlike most of the candidates who just finished university, and it is your chance to go through the process in your own pace.
• Moreover, I would advise you to take some spare time where are neither busy with your current work nor your interview preparation.
• If you still feel overwhelmed, I would advise you to think about seeking professional help. It is something very common theses days whether you would consider yourself burned out/ depressed or not.

In case you want a more detailed discussion on how to work on your mindset/ mood for your upcoming interviews while working full-time, please feel free to contact me directly.

I hope this helps,

Hagen

There is only one answer here: Take time off!

Seriously, when I see my candidates getting stressed and burnout, I “force” them to take a full week or weekend off. Without fail, when they come back after the break, they then perform BETTER.

Take a break! Come back when you're ready and feeling good about cases!

Hi!

I recommend re-gaining control of your time, i.e. allocate only a part of your free time (and no more than that) for cases and do sports/relax in the remaining time.

Creating a clear division between work and cases and the rest of your life is essential to succeed.

Good luck,

Anto

Hi, send me a direct message and I will share some tips and other very relevant details with you.