Squiggly Careers

Could putting more constraints on your career actually create more possibilities?

In this episode, Helen and Sarah borrow brilliance from David Epstein's book (Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better) to explore how choosing your own constraints can help you think differently and more creatively about your career. They experiment with constraints across six areas of career development, from learning and strengths to confidence and future possibilities.

🎯 What You'll Learn
– Why constraints can help you think more creatively
– How to experiment with constraints in your career
– How to focus your learning, strengths and values
– How constraints can help with confidence and networking
– How to explore your future possibilities differently

📚Resources mentioned
David Epstein – Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better
https://davidepstein.com/inside-the-box/

Adam Morgan & Mark Barden – A Beautiful Constraint
https://www.eatbigfish.com/thinking/a-beautiful-constraint

Squiggly Careers podcast episode #256 – You Coach You: Overcoming Constraints
https://www.amazingif.com/listen/you-coach-you-overcoming-constraints/

Squiggly Careers podcast episode #220 – How to Explore Your Progression Possibilities

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The people you work with make a significant difference to your development. In this shortcut, Sarah shares 3 ways to learn more from the people around you.

🎯 What You'll Learn
- the importance of showing how you work
- why volunteering to support somone outside of your day job helps you grow
- how next level noticing will support you to succeed in your team

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Getting ready for a job interview can feel daunting, but what happens when you have to face an AI interviewer or answer tough questions about how you use artificial intelligence?

In this episode, Helen puts Sarah on the spot with real AI interview questions shared by the Squiggly Careers community.

Together, they explore how AI is changing the interview experience, what interviewers might be looking for in your answers, and how you can prepare to talk confidently about how you're using and learning about AI at work.

🎯 What You'll Learn– How AI is changing the interview experience– The AI questions you could be asked in an interview– What interviewers might be looking for in your answers– How to talk about where AI adds value and its limits– The AI questions you could ask an interviewer

📚Resources mentioned
- Claudia Harris on the future of AI and work: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudia-harris-obe-71793374/
- We Are Not Machines by Sarah O’Connor: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/462159/we-are-not-machines-by-oconnor-sarah/9780241704226
- Hannah Fry’s AI agent experiment with Cass/Cassandra: https://microblog.christhomas.co.uk/blog/hannah-fry-cass-why-ai-agents

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Increasing your autonomy has a proven impact of work wellbeing and fulfilment and in this shortcut, Helen talks through 3 practical actions to help you to earn more autonomy at work.

🎯 What You'll Learn
- how to build trust
- why working autonomously doesn't mean going it alone
- the importance of owning your outcomes

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When things change at work, how good are you at changing how you think or act in response?

In the second part of our No Regret Skills mini-series, Helen and Sarah turn their attention to adaptability. Sarah breaks this skill down into eight different dimensions and puts Helen through a real-life scenario to explore where her adaptability strengths are and where she could get better.

🎯 What You'll Learn
– The difference between flexibility and adaptability
– The eight different dimensions of adaptability
– How to spot your own adaptability strengths
– Where you could get better at adapting to change
– How to explore adaptability as a team

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