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And today's Squiggly Careers conversation is all about how to create your career criteria.

It's something that we talk about on quite a few of our sessions actually. I think when we talk

about exploring your future possibilities and we think about using your strengths more at work,

we often come back to this idea of career criteria, but we haven't talked about it on the podcast before, so we thought it might be useful to share

it with people. So in terms of what a career criteria is, it's really just a list of things that

are important to you about the work that you do. And that might include what's important to you

about what you work on,

like a type of work or when you work. So like the shape of your working week, for example,

where you work, maybe like the type of businesses that you like to work in, like the how

if you like, the why of your work. It's getting a list of things that feel personal and specific

to you and using that as a guide for the decisions that you make

about your career. It isn't a job title or a job description that's exactly what you want to do.

So it's not, I want to, you know, it's not me going on LinkedIn, looking up a job and going,

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