A new starter joins, and on their first morning they ask the most basic question there is. So what is it you actually do here? You open your mouth to answer and realise you're not entirely sure how to. The job title is easy enough to say. It's just that it stopped describing your days some time ago, and you couldn't tell anyone the exact week that happened.

This episode of Career Espresso is about what to do when your job has changed but nobody told you. The role that grew while you weren't looking, the responsibilities that arrived without a single conversation, and the odd guilt that turns up the moment you notice and start to wonder whether you're allowed to say something about it.

What you'll discover:

• Why work quietly drifts towards the most reliable person in the room, and why being that person costs more than it looks
• The reason the standard advice to just be flexible can leave you worse off than before
• Why carrying more in silence often makes you less visible, not more
• How to get an honest picture of what your job has become before you try to change it
• The two conversations worth having once you can finally see it clearly

Perfect for: any woman who suspects her job has been rewritten while she wasn't looking, and wants to work out what to do about it.

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