Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Helen and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast and we are on day five.

Yay, final day of our Squiggly Career Skills Sprint.

If you are starting here, it's also fine.

But for lots of people we know that you will have been working your way through the sprint

and so firstly, well done for spending some time on your development every

day we know it's not easy we know there are loads of demands on your day and just as you were about

to get started someone will have asked you an annoying question or but the fact that you have stuck with it

you should you should feel really good about and we will send those people everyone today you will also get

your i've completed the squiggly you get a badge i've completed the Squiggly. You'll get a badge.

I've completed the Squiggly, Skill Sprint Badge. So if you put that on LinkedIn and tag us, we can celebrate your sprint success. And remember those daily summaries. I'm sure you're all really used to them by now. In today's summary, for example, you'll get an example of a mind map, our first mind map, I think, of the week. you'll get a link for a tool that Helen's going to talk about and loads of prompts, which again, cut and paste the prompts, use our prompt as starting point. And by now, maybe you can just use our prompt and then make it even better for yourself. So we're talking about future possibilities. So let's just talk about why this matters in a squiggly career. When we looked at careers like ladders,

you basically just had a plan. You were looking at the next step. You weren't really looking

much beyond that and you definitely weren't looking in different directions. In the world that we

are working in today, where there's lots of change, lots of uncertainty, that approach is risky

and it doesn't help you with your career career resilience. We don't want either of those

things for you. We want you to have lots of opportunity, lots of options so you have more control

in your career and that is why future possibilities matter. It means that you'll be able to explore

different directions that you can develop in. It means that you can get more curious and open about

your opportunities and that that just gives

you more choice. There's also a useful squiggly stat here to support this point, which is that people

now have 10 to 15 jobs on average in their working life. So lots of different jobs and potentially

lots of different companies and that our average career is around 40 years.

So we're working for a longer time, we are having more roles

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