Around the ten-year mark, competent professionals often notice the job still works on paper but no longer means anything. This isn't burnout. It's misalignment between the work and what actually matters. Drawing on client experience and McKinsey's purpose data, this piece looks at why it happens and what to do about it.

Internal candidates often assume familiarity works in their favour. Sometimes it works against them instead. This piece looks at how to ask for internal promotion by building genuine career confidence, testing your evidence against the level of the role, and reading what a yes, a not yet, or a no actually mean.