Sarah Ellis

Obviously, this is a go-to podcast now, Simon.

But one of the other go-to podcasts, um, uh, that you may have heard of is the "Squiggly Careers" podcast with Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis.

Um, and they were discussing the, the difference between, um, what they were calling hot-right-now skills, the must-have skills that dominate our current learning priorities, and the consistent, always needed, no regret skills that underpin success regardless of what's hot right now.

And I really like that term no regret skills, which apparently comes from Skills England.

Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah and you're listening to the Squiggly Careers podcast, a weekly podcast where we borrow brilliance from things we are watching at home or reading on the way to work or talking about with each other, just random things that inspire us and help us think about different ideas that you can put into action with your career.

And today is one of the slightly more, I don't know, left field,

I don't know what to call it.

What are we borrowing brilliance from today, Sarah? A box.

A box.

A box.

Yes.

right we're now going to go through the five skills so i'm going to start with strengths which you'll be happy about yes um because you always like oh no it's me who likes starting with strengths you like starting with values i'm happy about any strength you can make stronger you always want to start with values and i always want to start with strengths so i should probably explain that

Post 17, well, that post was a careers book.

It was The Squiggly Career by Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis.

I tagged the authors, which felt a bit cheeky, but then I moved on to the next post.

now fast forward it was a hot sticky august afternoon i'm still on maternity leave and i'm quietly dreading going back to my job in architecture i've got my baby on my hip i've got my iphone in one hand and the message comes through ding we love your social content so i'm getting in touch with a brief and that's helen some of you may know her And she has said that I could use this.

So basically...

I saw that when I looked up the idea of squiggly career paths in general as an actual term, apparently Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis created the concept of like a squiggly career path as a name for it in 2013, which I was actually surprised at.

I thought it'd be a little

bit later,

Hi, I'm Sarah.

And I'm Helen.

And this is the Squiggly Careers podcast, where every week we borrow some brilliance from a person, a place, even a letter the other week, if you've not caught up with that episode.

So the thing we're borrowing brilliance from is a sticky statement, something that I overheard at a conference I was at recently.

And we are going to take that sticky statement, which is about the idea of having no regret skills.

And Sarah and I are both going to teach each other one of those skills.

So in today's episode, I'm going to be talking about the no regret skill of decision making.

And in next week's episode, Sarah is going to be talking about the no regret skill of adaptability.