Squiggly Careers Map Your Career: 5 Visual Tools to Find Clarity and Direction
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Oct 21, 2025 Discover how mapping can revolutionize your career path! Explore five innovative maps to gain clarity and insight, from Energy Maps that track your daily highs and lows to Skills Maps that help identify areas for growth. Learn about the Give–Gain Map to visualize your relationships and the Possibilities Map to spark your career aspirations. Finally, tackle challenges with Problem Mapping, turning insights into actionable experiments. Unleash your creativity and navigate your squiggly career with confidence!
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Visual Maps Reveal Hidden Career Patterns
- Maps give career clarity by making thinking visual and observable rather than just verbal.
- Visuals force you to create meaning from data and spot patterns you miss in text alone.
Jürgen Appelo’s Return To Map‑Drawing
- Jürgen Appelo rediscovered drawing maps after a tech career and found AI couldn't match his hand-drawn maps yet.
- His shift to an M-shaped skill profile inspired using maps to visualise multiple strengths.
Frame First — Blank Maps Paralyse
- Blank pages often paralyse mapping; useful maps need a clear frame and prompt.
- Framing decides what you map and makes the visual exercise actionable and repeatable.
