What if some professionals simply don’t fit into one label?
What happens when Google doesn’t quite know how to classify you because you have too many labels — and someone with a much clearer professional identity ends up winning the search?
What happens when AI can’t solve it either?
Give it enough context and, sooner or later, one of a few things happens:
① It flattens you into a generic description.
② It gets you completely wrong.
→ It portrays you as a man.
③ It produces a CV packed with so many labels that it starts to sound less true, not more.
④ Or it simply tells you:
→ You’re an outlier. There isn’t really a label for this.
You say you’re multidisciplinary.
→ In the best case, people don’t quite believe you.
→ In the worst, it sounds as if you’re exaggerating — or claiming to be good at everything.
So how do you explain what you do when you do many things?
How do you explain that you don’t want to choose just one?
That the transversal nature of your work isn’t a recent career pivot.
It has always been there.
And that you don’t necessarily use one discipline to do one thing.
→ You use everything you know to make the thing you’re doing better.
That may be the part our professional labels struggle to capture.
□ Do we make ourselves smaller so we can fit into a box?
□ Do we list every skill, discipline and capability until we sound absurd?
□ Or do we need a different way of describing professionals who see and work across the whole system?
That is the question behind Too Big for One Box.
#FutureOfWork #Multidisciplinary #WomenInTech #PersonalBranding #TooBigForOneBox #SilviaBarroso
What happens when Google doesn’t quite know how to classify you because you have too many labels — and someone with a much clearer professional identity ends up winning the search?
What happens when AI can’t solve it either?
Give it enough context and, sooner or later, one of a few things happens:
① It flattens you into a generic description.
② It gets you completely wrong.
→ It portrays you as a man.
③ It produces a CV packed with so many labels that it starts to sound less true, not more.
④ Or it simply tells you:
→ You’re an outlier. There isn’t really a label for this.
You say you’re multidisciplinary.
→ In the best case, people don’t quite believe you.
→ In the worst, it sounds as if you’re exaggerating — or claiming to be good at everything.
So how do you explain what you do when you do many things?
How do you explain that you don’t want to choose just one?
That the transversal nature of your work isn’t a recent career pivot.
It has always been there.
And that you don’t necessarily use one discipline to do one thing.
→ You use everything you know to make the thing you’re doing better.
That may be the part our professional labels struggle to capture.
□ Do we make ourselves smaller so we can fit into a box?
□ Do we list every skill, discipline and capability until we sound absurd?
□ Or do we need a different way of describing professionals who see and work across the whole system?
That is the question behind Too Big for One Box.
#FutureOfWork #Multidisciplinary #WomenInTech #PersonalBranding #TooBigForOneBox #SilviaBarroso
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