Whether you're looking to land that next job, build resilience against today's layoff culture, or create the perfect launch pad for a business of your own, it's time to take back control of your professional identity.
Last week, I learned of a former colleague who stumbled through explaining a 4-month gap to a hiring manager, apologizing for something that wasn't her fault. The shame in her voice hit me: we've been conditioned to see employment gaps as professional failures instead of what they actually are... proof that the system is broken, not us.
How did we get so professionally fragile that a few months without a corporate badge makes us feel like damaged goods?
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A few years ago, I watched a talented colleague get laid off. She was great at her jobā€”really great. But when she started looking for what was next, she had nothing to show for a decade of work except a resume full of internal titles nobody outside the company recognized. No articles. No conference talks. No network that knew her by name. She wasn't s...
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A few years ago, I sat across the table from one of the most brilliant data scientists I've ever met. This person had solved problems that entire teams couldn't crack. Published nothing. No LinkedIn presence. No conference talks. Completely invisible outside their company walls.
That same week, I watched someone with a fraction of that talent post a b...
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Everyone's talking about the 4,000 people Block just cut. And they should beā€”losing your job is devastating. But there's an angle to this story that almost nobody is covering, and it might matter even more to your career than the layoffs themselves.
What happens to the people who survived?
One of them, a data scientist named Naoko Takeda, was offered ...
Reclaim Your Professional Identity
Whether you're looking to land that next job, build resilience against today's layoff culture, or create the perfect launch pad for a business of your own, it's time to take back control of your professional identity.
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