Your career can look stagnant while actually moving forward.

Not every year comes with a promotion.

Sometimes you're:

• Learning how to deal with difficult people
• Becoming faster at work that used to take you days
• Getting better at making decisions without asking for permission
• Learning what kind of work you absolutely don't want to do
• Building credibility with people who will matter later
• Becoming the person others come to when something goes wrong

None of that looks impressive on a resume.

But that's often where real career capital gets built.
The problem is that we measure career growth in titles and salary hikes when a lot of the most important growth is invisible.

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