Episode 108 - Building career options before you need them

Episode 108 - Building career options before you need them

From Career Espresso by Amanda Owen-Meehan

February 25, 2026 · 15 min · Season 7 · Episode 108

About this episode

This episode discusses how to build career options proactively rather than reactively during times of change at work.

Everything's fine at work. Not exciting, but fine. You're getting on with it, you know what you're doing, and there's enough going on that you haven't had time to think about much else. Then the restructure gets announced. Or your manager leaves. Or your role is suddenly "under review." And you're scramblin. Updating a CV you haven't touched in three years, reaching out to people you've barely spoken to, making decisions from panic instead of from a position of choice. This episode of Career Espresso is about building career options before you're in that situation. Not a constant side hustle of networking and CV polishing. A quiet, deliberate approach that means if something shifts, you're never starting from nothing. What you'll discover Why the usual advice including networking constantly and always be looking, creates exhaustion before you've even started, and what actually works instead The specific dynamic that keeps women in roles and organisations longer than is good for them, and why thinking about your options doesn't make you disloyal Three types of leverage that give you real career options and why you probably have more of them than you realise What to actually do…

People in this episode

Host: Amanda Owen-Meehan

Topics covered

  • career options
  • networking
  • women in the workplace
  • career development
  • market value

Keywords

  • career options
  • networking
  • women's careers
  • market value
  • career leverage

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