Hi everyone and thank you for coming back to the Squiggly Careers podcast if you are a regular listener

and if you are not if you're new here then welcome. For you, we'll tell you a little bit about who we are

and what we talk about each week so you know what this podcast is all about. So I'm Helen Tupper

and I'm here with the co-founder of Amazing if Sarah Ellis. Hi everybody. And each week we take a topic

that we know is relevant to you in the squiggly world of careers. And what Amazing If is all about is

helping you to develop the skills to succeed in a squiggly career. And so before we go on to what this

podcast is all about this week, I'm just going to hand over to Sarah, just to give you a bit of context in.

What is a squiggly career all about?

Yeah, we talk about squiggly careers all the time.

So we just thought, let's try and summarise what are the key characteristics of what we mean when we say squiggly career.

I think there are three things.

One, that there is lots of change in a squiggly career.

Two, uncertainty. and three, possibility. So,

change, uncertainty and possibility. And I think for all of us now, that's a reality in our careers.

So even if we're, it may be in quite a traditional organisation or still feel like we're climbing something that would

feel a bit more like a career ladder.

I think though the nature of the sort of work we're doing, the things that we're all going

to be doing in the future will all be characterised by the fact there is lots more change,

you know, driven by things like, you know, how work, the future of work and how, you know,

lots more people are going to be freelancing in a future. We can all travel lots more technology.

So there are lots of kind of factors or inputs that have, that means that our careers now feel

less straightforward and less predictable and just way more squiggly.

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