AI Skills Sprint: How To Design Your Future Career Using AI

Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Helen. And this is the Squiggly Careers podcast, and we are on day five. Final day of our Squiggly Career Skills sprint. If you are starting here, it's also fine. But for lots of people, we know that you will have been working your way through the sprint. And so, firstly, like well done for spending some time on your development every day. Um we know it's not easy, we know there are loads of demands on your day, and just as you were about to get started, some will have asked you an annoying question or um but the fact that you have stuck with it, you should you should feel really good about. And we will send those people everyone today, you will also get your I've completed a squiggly you get a bad I've completed the Squiggly Skill Sprint badge. So if you put that on LinkedIn and tag us, we can celebrate your sprint success. And remember those daily summaries. I'm sure you're really used to them by now. Um in today's summary, for example, you'll get an example of a mind map. Our first mind map, I think, of the week. Um you'll get a link for a tool that Helen's gonna talk about, um, and loads of prompts, which again, cut and paste the prompts. Use our prompt as a starting point and by now maybe you can just use our prompt and then make it even better for yourself. So uh we're talking about future possibilities, so let's just talk about why this matters in a squiggly career. When we looked at careers like ladders, you you basically just had a plan, you were looking at the next step.

you weren't really looking much beyond that and you definitely weren't looking in different directions. In the world that we are working in today, where there's lots of change, lots of uncertainty, that approach is risky and it doesn't help you with your career resilience. We don't want either of those things for you. We want you to have lots of opportunity, lots of options, so you have more control in your career. And that is why future possibilities matter. It means that you'll be able to explore different directions that you can develop in. It means that you can get more curious and open about your opportunities. And that that just gives you more choice. And there's also a s useful squiggly stat here to support this point, which is that people now have 10 to 15 jobs on average in their working life. So lots of different jobs and potentially lots of different companies, and that our average career is around 40 years. So we're working for a longer time, We are having more roles and we want you to have more resilience. That's what this skill is all about. And you want to create not wait when it comes to your future possibilities. You know, I think we are all guilty at some point in our squiggly careers.

of suddenly realising, I want to do something different now. And then we've not really been proactive or very intentional about it, and then you default to or just start applying for jobs. And sometimes you can be lucky. And you know, you apply for the right one and it all kinda works out. But certainly in my own career, when I think about all of the different squiggles and the moves that I've made All of the best ones have been quite a while in the making. Mm you know, I've had curious career conversations, I've explored different ideas.

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