A self-audit
Changing roles is a challenge. Here's a 10-minute assessment to help you take charge of your future and find your next opportunity. And it starts with one small step you can take this week.
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Most people fill the bottom half in ninety seconds and then sit staring at the top half. That gap is the whole diagnosis.
Six lines, fast, without editing yourself. Write what you’d say to a friend, not what you’d say to a recruiter.
Take your six lines in order. For each, write one move you could make without anyone’s permission. Not a solution — a move. “Update my CV” and “refresh my LinkedIn” don’t count: you have done those, and they changed nothing. If a line has no move, leave it blank and notice which one it was.
Your competence was never the question. The question is how much of the past months went into waiting. List what you have actually done — including how well the support around you is really performing, and how long you have been waiting on it. Then mark each one: did it depend on you, or on someone else coming back to you?
Mark your actions above and this line will tell you something you already suspect.
Pick it from your top half. In my experience the move is rarely tactical — it is something in you: where you stay too soft, too tough, or simply keep waiting. Small and specific beats ambitious and vague.