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Career Strategy · 6 min read

How to Build a Coherent Career Narrative

A career narrative is not a story imposed after the fact. It is the pattern of judgement that already exists in your history.

Careers are lived forward and read backward. The reader sees a sequence and looks for logic in it. If you do not supply that logic, they will infer one — often less favourable than the truth.

The work is to identify what has actually been consistent: the kinds of problems you are given, the decisions you are trusted with, the conditions in which you perform best.

Once that pattern is named, transitions stop looking like discontinuities and start looking like deliberate progression.

Written by Joshua Olanrewaju, Founder & CEO of Joshua O. CareerForge.

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