Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Helen and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast and this is our third

squiggly career skills sprints. It's quite the mouthful isn't it? It is. We'll move on from it

quickly but it's exciting that the skill sprint is back. So about 10,000 people have sprinted with

us so far so there are two to go back to if you want more sprinting

after this. And what is so brilliant about these sprints is they are short, snappy, specific

and also it's an opportunity to learn together with a really curious community. And we're conscious

that this might be the first time that you've learnt with us. So we should talk about what is a

squiggly career. We should talk about what a sprint is and also what support that we have created so that you've learned with us. So we should talk about what is a squiggly career. We should talk

about what a sprint is and also what support that we have created so that you can sprint with

success. So let's start with the squiggly bit. What is a squiggly career? A squiggly career is a way in

which we give people the freedom and the flexibility to develop in the direction that is right for

them. We are trying to let go of the idea that careers should look like ladders, that up is the

only way, and that success is seniority for everybody.

We think that that doesn't really reflect reality or your individuality and there's a different

way, a different and much more squiggly way, we can help people to succeed at work.

So what is a sprint? It's five days of learning, 10 minutes every day, so hopefully not too hard to

add into your day to day. And on each day, we're going to cover one of the five squiggly skills.

So we'll do strengths, values, confidence, networking and possibilities. And the idea with

this sprint is we're going to take those skills and we're going to figure out how AI can help

you to accelerate both your self-awareness, but also and as importantly, the actions that you're

going to take. And as well as the episodes which you can watch on YouTube or you can listen

to wherever you listen to your podcasts, we wrap quite a lot of support around them. So there is the ready, study sprint guide, which is a really good document to get you started. There are also daily sprint summaries which have all the links that we'll talk about. You'll have prompts that you can cut and pace. We've got screenshots so you can see how to get started with some of the exercises.

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