Resilience Experiments
The first two days focused on identifying and strengthening your transferable skills. Today you expand your capabilities by learning something adjacent to your current role. Adjacent skills are capabilities that connect to what you already do but expand your range slightly. They make you more versatile without requiring you to
Job Security Systems
The first two days focused on documenting what you do. Today you document who needs what you do. Your value to the organization isn't just about the tasks you complete. It's about the relationships you maintain, the people who rely on your work, and the gaps
Career Transition
Yesterday you contacted five people from your existing network. Today you expand that network by joining groups where hiring managers and decision-makers spend time. Job boards show you positions that hundreds of other people are applying to. Professional groups put you in the same spaces as people who make hiring
Workplace Navigation
Org charts show formal authority. They don't show actual influence. The person with the most power in your department might not be the one with the manager title. Real influence comes from relationships, expertise, or control over resources that other people need. Understanding who has informal power helps
Financial Resilience
Yesterday you calculated your actual monthly expenses. Today you identify which ones to reduce. Not all expenses are equal candidates for reduction. Fixed costs like rent and insurance are difficult to change quickly. Variable necessities like groceries and utilities can be trimmed but not eliminated. Discretionary expenses are where you
Career Transition
Your job search resume should be tailored for each position. But you can't tailor effectively if you're starting from memory every time. A master resume is your complete professional record. It includes every achievement, project, responsibility, and metric from your recent work history. You'll
Job Security Systems
Most of your work exists only in your memory and in the results you produced. If someone asked your manager to list your contributions from six months ago, they'd remember the big projects but miss the smaller work that kept things running. This creates a problem during layoffs.
Resilience Experiments
Your job security depends partly on factors outside your control. The one factor you can control is how prepared you are if circumstances change. Most people wait until they're job searching to think about which skills matter beyond their current role. By then, they're under pressure
Job Security Systems
When companies make cuts, decisions happen in closed rooms between people who don't see your daily work. They rely on what's documented, what's visible, and what managers remember under pressure. If your contributions exist only in your own memory, they might not factor into