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Careers and Career Change

Careers and Career Change

110 episodes carry career-tagged segments — the show's most consistent individual-level theme, spanning redundancy, reinvention, promotions, and the "portfolio career."

What's been said

  • Multiple careers are the new normal. A throughline: one-job-for-life is gone; careers are becoming sequences of reinventions .
  • Redundancy is survivable and often a turning point. Leanne's own 2015 redundancy story is told as a lesson in bouncing back ; supporting teams through redundancy is a recurring how-to .
  • Credentials aren't the only path. Al's story of proving himself without formal credentials anchors the show's stance that capability and outcome beat paper .
  • The career comedown. Big promotions can trigger a slump — the emotional "why don't I feel good?" after a milestone .

The episodes & clips that cover this

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  • Al's story: proving yourself without credentials

    Yeah, I never went to university. I didn't, um, actually I never got any A-levels, to be brutally honest. Um, and, um, but look, it was that sort of like you can do anything attitude, uh, I think more

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  • Multiple careers: the new normal

    Hmm But still, there's still a lot of dynamism in the environment, and that's going to continue because of the pace of technology. So in a more human-centric environment, it's that what I look at as a

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  • Leanne's story: being made redundant in 2015

    But come back Yeah, come back. Definitely come back because Nudge isn't as good as this. So come back. I'll cut that out. Keep that in

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