Expectation Compression
A desired deadline can leave too little room for the responsibilities and evidence a career transition requires.
Also called: compressed runway, the eighteen month plan.
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- Perspective
The problem isn't age. It's expectation compression.
The essay that first named the pattern, working through what compression looks like and why the first knock finishes it.
Open - Perspective
Why career change advice keeps breaking
The essay examines what happens when a career plan leaves little room for uncertainty and additional learning.
Open - Perspective
The second beginner problem
Compression is what happens when somebody refuses the second beginner stage. The two patterns travel together.
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Related patterns
The Second Beginner Problem
A career transition can preserve useful experience while still requiring supervision in unfamiliar responsibilities.
Wrong Pool
Hiring briefs and job hunts keep failing because they are aimed at a candidate pool that does not produce the work the seat actually needs done, and the people who could do the work are reading a different job title.