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Hi, I'm Sarah.
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And I'm Helen.
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And this is the Squiggly Careers podcast. And this is our third squiggly career skills sprint.
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Hooray, it's back.
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It's quite the mouthful, isn't it?
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It is. We'll move on from it quickly, but it's exciting that the skill sprint is back.
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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.
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And we're conscious this might be the first time 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. 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.
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So what is a sprint? It's five days of learning, ten 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.
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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 paste. We've got screenshots so you can see how to get started with some of the exercises. Make sure that you are signed up for the Sprint so you get all that information. We'll put the link in the show notes or if you can't find it, don't worry, just email us helenand sarahquigglycareers.com.
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In the guide you'll also find a Frequently Asked Questions section where we do talk about things like personal information and also kind of environmental and sustainability practices which I think are important to all of us and we're all still learning about. But just a few top tips to get you started that I think we can start with today. One don't give any personal information to an OpenAI sounds obvious, but even the other day I sort of nearly did it, you know, sort of by accident because I was just doing something quickly. So we'll give you loads of prompts throughout the Sprint that you can just cut and paste and none of them will encourage you to say hi, I'm Sarah, this is where I live and this is who I work for, so let's not do that. And then if you're thinking about the tools to use, we're going to just use loads of different tools. So we've been quite neutral and tried out lots of different ones. But you can really easily research with every tool the environmental commitments they've made, how much energy they're using and they are all quite different. So I've learned a lot just from doing it. And you can find out more in the guide.
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And the final thing to say is why not take advantage of the Squiggly careers community? There are thousands of people that are going to be learning at the same time. It's probably best. If you want to connect with the community, head to LinkedIn where the amazing if pages will be posting about this throughout the week. You'll be able to share your comments, reflections. You'll be able to see what other people are sharing too. So connect there if you want to feel part of the community. And the other thing is tag us in any post just tagazingif so we can see that you're sprinting. We can support and celebrate your success. We really want to feel like a community that are learning together.
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So we hope you're going to find this really useful for you and your squiggly career development and learning and ready to get started.