Hi everyone, I'm Sarah Ellis and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast. In today's episode, I'm interviewing two brilliant guests, Pip Jameson and Jimmy McLaughlin. And we're going to be talking about reskilling. And reskilling is a topic that we're really interested in at Amazing If. It's clearly very related to Squiggly Careers and something that we're really interested in at Amazing If, it's clearly very related to squiggly careers

and something that we're really committed to continue to explore as part of our ambition

in our business, which is to make careers better for everyone. And the latest report from

the World Economic Forum suggests that 50% of employees will need to reskill by 2025.

And for people staying in their existing roles, their core skills will also change by 40%.

So I think reskilling is probably relevant for all of us.

The report actually does also go on to talk about the top 10 skills that we should all be

thinking about to prepare for the future of jobs. And I think these probably deserve podcast episode or

episodes in their own right. So we'll come back to those really soon. And I've linked to that

report in the podcast notes for today. And it is a really interesting read if this is a topic

that you want to dive a bit deeper into. So a quick intro to our two guests today before we get started.

For long-time listeners, you might remember Pip.

She joined us for our 100th episode, and she's the first person that we've invited back

onto the Squiggly Careers podcast.

As ever, Pip is always full of energy and insights. And we felt that her kind of knowledge of

what's kind of happened within the creative industries and actually just within professional

networks in 2020, we're going to be really invaluable to today's conversation.

For those of you who might not have heard of Pip before, she's the founder and CEO of a

company called The Dots.

And they describe themselves as a professional network for people that don't wear suits. And

Pip was named by the Sunday Times as one of the top 100 disruptive entrepreneurs innovating

in their fields and by Computer Week as one of the most influential women in tech.

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