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from Harvard Business Review.

I'm Amy Bernstein. I'm Amy Bernstein.

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For many of us, the pandemic and now the recession have limited our ability to make a career move.

But there are aspects of our professional lives that are still in our

control. We'll be talking here about how to get to where you want to be despite the

constraints. We'll also talk about how to protect a job you love but that may be at risk.

Let's start with that first scenario.

You've been working toward a change, maybe a different team, different company,

different industry, different salary band.

Maybe you were trying to step into a leadership role.

Your career was on the upgrade, and now you feel like you're in maintenance mode or even regressing. We asked Kathleen McGinn for insight on what

moving ahead means now and for advice on when and how we should be pushing ourselves.

Kathleen's a professor at Harvard Business School. In her

research she explores the relationship between gender and career mobility and

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