DIY Career Development

Taking control of your career development is easier than ever if you’ve got the motivation and you know where to look! This week, Helen and Sarah are sharing their top tips of ‘do it yourself’ career development and favourite, tried and tested, learning resources.

About this week’s episode:

It’s never been more important for us to take ownership of our own development. Squiggly Careers are full of change. Sometimes we are in control of it and sometimes it feels like it’s in control of us, but taking ownership for your career development is one way in which you can give yourself a little bit more power in the process!

Some people assume that career development is about going on a course or something that they are reliant on their organisation to provide them with. However, there are lots of resources available to provide inspirational, on-demand and affordable learning for your career – you just need to know where to look!

On this week’s podcast, DIY Career Development, we’re sharing our top tips and our top resources to get you started. We’ve summarised them below for you for ease:

Top Tips

1. Think in squiggles not steps
2. Learn in a way that works for you (here is a good test to find out your learning preference)
3. Don’t tick it off the list
4. Think 70/20/10
5. Work for Growth Mindset Managers

Top Resources

1. Design Your Life (book)
2. School of Life (a bit of everything!)
3. Work life (podcast)
4. Wonderbox (book)