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Now let's get on to today's episode. Hi, it's Helen from the Squiggly Careers podcast and you're listening to another one of our squiggly shortcuts. And today the topic that I'm going to talk about is creating career clarity, which is quite hard to say and sometimes feels quite hard to do.

There's probably a bit of a clarity caveat before I get started, which is that I think in a squiggly

career it is very hard to have complete clarity. We can't plan, predict or control

everything that is going to happen to us in work or outside of work. So going into your

career development with the expectation that you're going to be able to plan every move

you're going to make and see this completely clear path, I think is a little bit unrealistic.

However, I recognize, and I hear a lot of people who want that, when it feels uncertain and

ambiguous, we kind of look for clarity as a sort of source of stability.

So what I want to share with you is three ways that I think you can create clarity that's

realistic for a squiggly career. So clarity that can give you a sense of direction,

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