Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Helen and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast. Every week we share ideas for

action and tools to try out that we hope will help you and us to navigate your squiggly career

with a bit more confidence, clarity and control. And in today's episode we're going to be

focusing on the topic of our latest article that we've written for Harvard Business Review, which is about creative ideas to overcome career development challenges.

And we thought in the episode today, we talk a little bit about why we wrote that article, why we think it's an important topic for people right now.

And then we'd go into the ideas for action that we've shared

just to bring them to life for you

so that it's a bit more easy for you to think about

how you might apply this to you in your own career

and you're in your own career development challenges.

So in terms of why we wrote it,

when we were thinking, we always do like a bit of scanning

when we're like, what feels like a really relevant topic to write about for people at the moment? And we were

thinking a little bit about challenges and confidence in the context of sort of what's going on

in the world right now and the issues that might create for people's careers. And we did do a

survey on LinkedIn and we said,

are you feeling more or less confident in your career at the moment

in light of some of the stuff that's going on in the wider world of work?

And we got a vast majority of people saying that they were feeling a bit less confident.

And so Sarah and I were then thinking about, well,

how can we help people to

take a bit more control, to overcome some of the constraints that might be getting in their way,

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