Hi everyone and welcome to this week's squiggly career podcast. I'm Sarah, one of the founders of

Amazing If and I'm joined by Helen, my co-founder. Hello everyone. And we're here with our usual weekly

podcast to help everyone develop the skills that we all need in our increasingly squiggly careers.

This week's topic is all about how to leave a job well. And I think in

squiggly careers, this is probably going to be something we're all going to get quite a lot of

practice of. I was reading some stats today about just the changes in terms of the amount of

transitioning that we're all going to go through. And there are some really interesting trends.

So things like boomerang employees, which is where you work for a company, you go away,

do various other things or go travelling, and actually go back to that same company.

At least 40 to 50% of people apparently now consider going back to somewhere they've worked

before, which I think when I started my career,

that was almost unheard of. I hear it more and more now. I think it's really interesting.

And I'd be tempted to do it, you know, with some of the kind of people that I've worked with before.

I kind of take new skills back to you when you go. Actually, in my new job, I work with Sainsbury's,

who I used to work for, but in a different capacity. So though I've not quite boomerang

back to the same company, I am still kind of working with them and with some of the same people.

That's so interesting. That's definitely a reason why you need to leave well. To be honest, it's a very

good reason to leave well. So that's kind of one trend. Another trend is the amount of people

who are likely to be self-employed at some point. So apparently that number is going to triple by 2020 to something like 42 million people.

And particularly people of like the millennial generation, mainly people sort of roughly in their

20s and 30s.

That will come from people being full-time employed, but then actually choosing to be

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