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    <title><![CDATA[What I learned from running the same exercise with 40 clients]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[After six years of running the values mapping exercise at the start of every Career Clarity Programme, some patterns have become hard to ignore. The most common one: people consistently undervalue the things they find easy.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-06-30</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The job offer you can't decide on: a frame that helps]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Most people who come to a Single Strategy Session with a job offer on the table aren't really stuck on the offer. They're stuck on a deeper question they haven't named yet. Here's the frame I use.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why I stopped recommending personality tests]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I used to send clients a personality assessment before our first session. I stopped about two years ago. Here's what changed my mind and what I use instead.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-04-02</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to Know When It's Time to Change Careers]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Most people don't decide to change careers. They arrive at it slowly, after a long period of ignoring signals they didn't want to deal with. By the time they book a coaching session, they've usually known for a year or two. The question isn't whether to change. It's whether they're allowed to.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-06-10</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Using Values Mapping to Make Better Career Decisions]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Interests change. Skills can be learned. But the things you genuinely value at work, the conditions under which you do your best thinking, the kind of contribution that feels meaningful to you, those tend to be remarkably stable across time. Values mapping is the process of surfacing them clearly enough to use them.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-05-20</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Five CV Mistakes Mid-Career Professionals Keep Making]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A CV written by someone with fifteen years of experience should be one of the easiest documents to write. In practice, it's often the hardest. The more experience you have, the more you have to leave out, and most people leave out the wrong things.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-04-15</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Interview Preparation That Actually Works]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Most interview preparation advice tells you to research the company, prepare examples using the STAR method, and have a question ready at the end. That's all fine. It's also what every other candidate is doing. The preparation that makes a difference is more specific than that.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-03-22</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Career Change at 40: What to Expect and How to Prepare]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Career change at 40 gets a lot of coverage, most of it either falsely reassuring or unnecessarily alarming. The honest version is that it's harder in some ways and easier in others than people expect, and the things that make it hard are usually not the ones people worry about most.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-02-05</pubDate>
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