Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Helen and this is the squiggly careers podcast. Every week we talk about a

different topic to do with work and share some ideas and actions that we hope are going to help

all of us navigate our squiggly careers without a bit more confidence and control. And today we're

going to talk about what a topic that I think can feel

quite difficult if it's something you're experiencing right now. But as ever, we hope we've got

some practical actions that can help you through it. So the topic is how to recover from rejection.

So tricky topic today. How to recover from rejection. Let's see if we can bring some optimism

to what is what is a hard moment,

I think, in our squiggly careers. You know, we talk about moments that matter. I feel like

these are often moments that matter. They're not ones that you would hope for. They're sort of

knotty moments rather than kind of upbeat moments. But I think if we can approach

them in the right way, there is often a lot to learn kind of in those moments. And they can help us

to be even better. But it's a tricky one, isn't it? It's a tricky one to get right. And when I

was thinking about some common career rejections, I think the one that always springs to mind for all of us, if you're reflecting back on your squiggly career, you always think

about the jobs you didn't get. Because you put so much effort and energy into applying for roles,

whether it's a sideways move, whether it's in a different industry, whether you've gone

for a promotion. It's a very clear rejection,

isn't it? It's a very binary one. It's like, I wanted to do this and you said no to me.

That always feels hard to take and it's something I'm sure we've all experienced. And then the more I started thinking about it, the more rejections I could come up with. I was like, oh,

actually, there's quite a lot of smaller rejections that we probably

experience more frequently.

So that could be things like, you know, if you suggest an idea, you're like, oh, I've got

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