Welcome to the Squiggly Careers AI Skills Sprint 2025 🥇

Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Helen. And this is a Squiggly Careers podcast. And this is our third Squiggly Career Skill Sprint. It's quite the mouthful, isn't it? It is. We'll move on from it quickly, but it's exciting that the skill sprint is back. So about 10,000 people have sprinted with us so far, so there are two to go back to if you want more sprinting after this. And what is so brilliant about these sprints is they are short, snappy, specific, and also it's an opportunity to learn together with a really curious community. And we're conscious that this might be the first time that you've learnt with us. So we should talk about what is a squiggly career, and we should talk about what a sprint is and also what support that we have created so that you can sprint with success. So let's start with the squiggly bit. What is a squiggly career? A squiggly career is a way in which we give people the freedom and the flexibility to develop in the direction that is right for them. We are trying to let go of the idea that careers should look like ladders, that up is the only way, and that success is seniority for everybody. We think that that doesn't really affect reality or or your individuality and there's a different way, a different and much more squiggly way we can help people to succeed at work.

So what is a sprint? It's five days of learning. 10 minutes every day, so hopefully not too hard to add into your day to day. And on each day, we're going to cover one of the five squiggly skills. So we'll do strengths. values, confidence, networking and possibilities. And the idea with this sprint is we're gonna take those skills and we're gonna figure out how AI can help you to accelerate both your self awareness, but also and as importantly, the actions that you're gonna take.

And as well as the episodes, which you can watch on YouTube or you can listen to wherever you listen to your podcasts, where you wrap quite a lot of support around them. So there is the Ready Steady Sprint Guide, which is a really good document to get you started. There are also daily sprint summaries, which have all the links that we'll talk about. You'll have prompts that you can cut and paste. We've got screenshots so you can see how to get started with some of the exercises. Make sure that you are signed up for the sprint so you get all that information. We'll put the link in the show notes or if you can't find it, don't worry, just email us helen and sarah at squigglycareers.com. In the guide, you'll also find a frequently asked questions section where we do talk about things like personal information and also kind of environmental and sustainability practices, which I think are important to all of us and we're all still learning about. But just a few top tips to get you started that I think we can start with today. One, don't give any personal information to an open AI. Sounds obvious, but even the other day I sort of nearly did it you know, sort of by accident,'cause I was just doing something quickly.

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