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Squiggly Careers · 2026-06-05 · 12 min · 2,616 words

Communication and how to use it to create opportunity in your career (Day 5) | Open to Work

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Anishwa on day five of our series of open to work. So I think I should recap what we've covered. So we've done day one, curiosity, then we talked about courage, we've done creativity, we've done compassion, and our fifth and final skill that we're going to talk about today is communication. I wonder whether people who are listening or watching, they might think, oh, I know about communication. You know, I communicate every day.

What what do I need to do differently? Why is it more important now? Let's let's like dive into this and give people like meaningful, useful stuff that they can do because this is all about the human skills that help us to stay relevant and succeed in the age of AI. So let's tackle communication. Why why did it make the five?

Why wasn't it just a foundation for everything? You know, this one um is the most personal for me of the fives because my whole career at some level has been built around communication and I have honestly struggled with that term. There were periods of my career I ran away from anything that had communications in it because I wanted to be more than and I didn't want to be limited by. In the job I'm in now, I remember my co-author, Ryan early at LinkedIn said, you're a great storyteller.

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