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Still Marketable After 10+ Years at One Company? Career Experiments That Give You the Real Answer
Episode 713
Published 1 week, 3 days ago
Description
After 10+ years at the same company, a specific kind of doubt creeps in. You start to wonder if you're still marketable, whether the skills you've spent the last decade building are still relevant to anyone outside the building you've been showing up to, and whether anyone would actually want to hire you if you had to leave tomorrow.
In this special Q&A episode, we walk through a specific framework for testing your marketability without putting your current job at risk. You'll hear why the same expertise that built your career is also what's keeping you from seeing your real options, how to use career experiments and test-drive conversations to gather real data on your skills, and the often-overlooked difference between marketable skills and signature strengths.
You'll learn:
In this special Q&A episode, we walk through a specific framework for testing your marketability without putting your current job at risk. You'll hear why the same expertise that built your career is also what's keeping you from seeing your real options, how to use career experiments and test-drive conversations to gather real data on your skills, and the often-overlooked difference between marketable skills and signature strengths.
You'll learn:
- Why the longer you stay in one place, the harder it gets to honestly assess your marketability
- The concept of "systematic exposure" and why it's the missing piece for most people in your situation
- How to use career experiments and test-drive conversations to gather real data on your transferable skills
- The difference between marketable skills and signature strengths, and why most people are looking at the wrong layer
- How to start running small, low-risk experiments today that build your career clarity over time
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