Hi, I'm Sarah Ellis and I'm Helen Tupper.

And you're listening to the Squiggly Careers podcast.

Each week we talk about a different topic to do with work and discuss practical ideas and actions to help you find your way through our Squiggly world of work.

And before we get started on this week's topic, just a quick reminder about the Squiggly Career Advocates Awards,

which have one week to go when this comes out. The application date for the awards closed on

the 31st of March. So if you are somebody who is passionate about career development and you

are committed to helping other people with their career development, the awards could be

something that you might want to enter.

We are going to be recognising and supporting 100 people

who are already helping other people with their careers.

We've got a really exciting 12-month learning program designed for that community.

And also we want to connect everyone together so that they can learn from each other.

You can find out everything you need to know about applying if you just go to amazing if.com forward slash advocates. And I've already

seen lots of the applications and I'm very, very excited about them. Oh, final point, actually,

you can nominate other people. That's the other thing. When I was scanning through all the

applications so far, I was just really happy about how many people had nominated somebody

else for the awards, which just feels like a very, very nice thing to do to support people.

That's exciting. I've not seen any of them yet, so I'm looking forward to reading them.

So today we're going to be talking about how to build a personal board for your career.

And we've covered different topics before about things like

relationships and networking and mentoring, but we've never really explored this idea of a personal

board. What is it? Why does it matter? And how can you create and build and maintain one of these

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