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Conventional wisdom frames the ideal career path as a linear one — a ladder to be climbed with a single-minded focus to get to the top. Career development consultants Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper invite you to replace this outdated and limiting model with “squiggly” careers: dynamic, open-ended growth paths tailor-made for your individual needs, talents and ambitions. A radical rethink for anyone who feels restricted and defined by the limits of the corporate ladder.
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Doesn't it look much interesting because they hadn't a good conversation skills & looks like they are speaking what they have learned like a student learning his syllabus just to gain marks.. nothing there was creative about.. They should work in speaking expertise , by the way material was good
yes! yes! yes! I actually just quit my career as a designer to explore marketing. I'm so excited and nervous but I'm ready. I needed this video to give me courage. I'm happy I'm not alone.
That's stupid, the career ladder is not actually a ladder it looks like one but the truth is that we as humans need hierarchies in order to organize ourselves. If you look at it from one dimension it looks like a ladder. If you look at it from 2 dimensions it is a triangle, a hierarchy, because this is how we organize as humans always. The ladder is a myth that people with narrow vision of the organization hierarchy have created.
As a recent graduate and also someone who is unemployed I am coming to the full realization of this squiggly line theory yall have. I played it safe, I worked hard, I saved and did everything I could to avoid coming to this part in life yet I am here. I do like how yall worded it though – it is full of uncertainty and possibility. I feel more roughed up these days but today I feel optimistic!
To have a squiggly career, first, we have to create a ecosystem, where employers encourage employees and there are no hurdles for employees to pursue what they want.
encouraging ?
I find advices like these intriguing but impractical.
In a world where even having good experience doesn't guarantee that you can find a better opportunity in that same field let alone exploring an opportunity in an altogether different field, Ideas like these does more harm than any good.
I'm trying to find a new opportunity since more than a year now but haven't found anything yet be it in the same field or different.
Ideas like these sounds really good but for everyone it's just simply not possible for reasons beyond their control
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” Have a good day everyone
"Come as you are,do what you love." Loved this ?
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I can’t count the number of times I kept screaming, “yes! talk to me!” a lot of people need to hear this because not only does it describe the progression of some of our lives but it’s very insightful.
I will believe this if there was something like universal basic income, where you can abandond your job and know that you will have something to eat next day. I did engineering studies with an specilization in the nuclear field but never got a change to work on the field (no, I was not bad, actually people of my university with worse academic degree got the change). After almost 2 years jobless I got an oportunity to do a PhD in a totally diferent field, I did it because it was related to nuclear waste (at that moment it was my passion to work in something related to the nuclear world), and now it seems impossible to go out from the field. I have tried during one year and so far, It has not work. In general companies and research institutions want somebody who has done the job already, otherwise they will give you only the oportunity if there is nobody or if they know you from drinking a beer. It is sad. If they do not hire people with experience, how will get people experience?
yeah, this is fantastic, and either you get it or the job market gets you to know it. Speak with a young and ask him about how many jobs they have done and listen to the answers, tens. Not because they want a squiggly career, but because they have been forced to get that. I'm an advocate of squiggly career, skills, abilities that you could have are countless rather than a standard career. However, as long as universities prepare students to ladder companies, there won't be any changes. Here, in Italy, we are locked even at a step behind, universities don't prepare a student for anything. when you've finished the university know quite zero about job and tons about theoretical concepts. Therefore, first universities must catch up to what's going on in the real world and then start preparing students for it. It's not to leave off responsibility from our shoulders, it's just to point out this huge matter that comes before.
This is really good but also really doesn't work in developing & emerging economies
Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance,
You must keep moving.
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I swear my university professor brainwashed the student teachers by playing ted talks. I bet my class is still sharing ideas.
Love this! Inspiring!
A straight line is the shortest distance between two points. Who would believe the best careers are a straight line besides stupid people.
"Squiggly" = Reality.
More like rock climbing you can go up, down, side to side not a ladder?
if progression purely means promotion, we miss out on many opportunities that are all around us.?