Squiggly Shortcut: How to Feel More in Control of Your Career (Even in Uncertain Times)
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Hi, it's Helen from the Squiggly Careers podcast and you're listening to another one of our squiggly shortcuts. And today the topic that I'm going to talk about is creating career clarity, which is quite hard to say and sometimes feels quite hard to do. There's probably a bit of a clarity caveat before I get started, which is that I think in a squiggly career it is very hard to have complete clarity. We can't plan, predict or control everything that is going to happen to us in work or outside of work.
So going into your career development with the expectation that you're going to be able to plan every move you're going to make and see this completely clear path, I think is a little bit unrealistic. However, I recognise and I hear a lot of people who who want that when it feels uncertain and ambiguous, we kind of look for clarity as a sort of source of stability. So what I want to share with you is three ways that I think you can create clarity that's realistic for a squiggly career. So clarity that can give you a sense of direction, clarity that can give you a sense of feeling in control of your progress rather than perhaps in control of everything that is happening to you.
So three things that I think can help you to do this. The first thing I want to talk about is making sure that you know what your progression priorities are. So in a squiggly career, one of the things that can create clarity is when we have a sense of what we want to do, the direction that our development is going in. And if we if we don't have that, we can feel a little bit lost and unsure and like we haven't got direction.
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