#566 The Only Script You Need for Curious Career Conversations

Hi, I'm Helen from the Squiggly Careers podcast and you are listening to one of our Squiggly Careers shortcuts. These super short episodes are designed to be easy to fit into your day and also easy to take action with straight away. And today I'm going to talk about the only script you need to get started with a curious career conversation. So one of the things that we notice when we're talking to people is that People can sometimes be quite reactive about the conversations they have about their career.

So they can wait until they decide they don't want to do what they're doing or they've seen a job that they want to do. They're sort of waiting for that moment. Whereas what we would recommend is that you are continually curious about your career because it is very likely that it is the connections that you make and the conversations that you have which will get you closer to the possibilities that you want for your career. So if we're not making those connections and we're not having those conversations, we're always keeping those opportunities a bit further a distance.

So curious career conversations are when you go and talk to somebody about the work that they're doing. Could be a project they're working on, could be a job that they're doing, could be a company they're working in. And your only aim in the conversation is to learn, to learn about them, the company, the work. You're not necessarily coming away with any actions. You're not really making any asks.

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