Troubleshooting your career

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Viewing your job through an experimental lens

Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, if feels like you have no opportunity to progress your career in your current workplace. Perhaps you keep getting turned down for a promotion. Or maybe you can’t get the opportunities you need to make those moves – being passed over for project leadership, or denied training opportunities, for example. In many cases, this is perfectly fair – one of your colleagues might be equally deserving, and there just aren’t enough career development opportunities to go around. But how can you tell when it’s worth persevering or if it’s time to move on?