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Career Clinic: Help, I'm stuck in a career rut

Failure to secure a new role in five years – in either your existing place of work or outside it – should give pause for thought

Career Clinic: Help, I'm stuck in a career rut
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I've been stuck in my role for five years and I don't feel like I'm progressing. I've failed to get other internal jobs I've applied for and I'm running out of ideas of how to develop my career. What should I do?

Over the past five years you are likely to have experienced different projects, people and contexts. So while it may feel like you have been "stuck", it's very likely that you have developed some useful skills.

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