#461 Career Starters: how to learn and grown in your first job

Squiggly Careers

The Squiggly Career

Management, Careers, Business

5 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This is the first episode of the Squiggly Career Stage Series – 5 podcast episodes and practical tools to help you succeed in your career.

We’ve focused on 5 stages where we know people need some extra squiggly support and in this episode Helen and Sarah are looking at Squiggly Career Starters, people who are looking to learn and grow in their first job.

Sarah and Helen share their insights on this stage and interview two people to learn from their perspective; Yemurai Rabvukwa and Sarah Gregory from social mobility charity, Upreach.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah.
0:04.0	And I'm Helen.
0:05.0	And this is the Squiggly Careers podcast.
0:07.4	This episode is part of the Squiggly Career Stage series.
0:11.0	Try saying that altogether.
0:12.5	Where we're talking about five different career stages and sharing insights and advice that we hope will help people succeed.
0:20.1	So these are some specific episodes where
0:22.4	we cover career returners, career changes, career setbacks, career continuers, and today we're
0:29.2	talking about career starters. And as well as me and Sarah sharing some of our perspectives on
0:34.5	this particular career stage, we've also interviewed a couple of people to get
0:38.2	their insights too. So you will hear Sarah's conversation with Uprich, a social mobility charity
0:43.7	that we actually came into contact with when we did our careers collective live for any of you
0:47.9	who think, oh, I've heard of Uprich before. And I have a conversation with a brilliant, recent
0:52.8	career starter who also did an early squiggle,
0:54.9	but I won't spoil it too much.
0:56.4	Yomuri Rubukra, who's got some very just insightful and specific advice for people who might be
1:01.4	starting out in their career.
1:02.9	We've also got a guide.
1:04.0	So all of the episodes that we are releasing this week as part of this career stage series
1:08.0	come with a guide so you can learn a bit more and also reflect
1:11.4	and take action. Each guide has coach self questions, a tool to try out and an extra interview.
1:16.5	So the guide that comes with this episode has an interview with Jack Parsons, who is the CEO at
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