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  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/keep-one-option-opening-move-in-the-career-plan",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9035",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Keep one option-opening move in the career plan",
  "summary": "A resilient career plan should create at least one new door before the old door closes.",
  "kind": "heuristic",
  "body": "Alongside deepening the current specialty, keep a bounded move that increases future options: a transferable work sample, adjacent skill, external relationship, current market knowledge or portable credential where it genuinely matters. Choose one with a plausible path to use; do not diversify into random shallow skills.",
  "limits": [
    "Specialization can be economically rational. Option value is a hedge, not a rule to become broad at the expense of valuable depth."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-skill-acquisition-career-dominant-focus"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-06EEB97387779691",
    "RS-7A99264A4FC59B61"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "A meta-analysis of 90 studies linked career adaptability with planning, exploration, occupational self-efficacy and multiple career and work outcomes.",
      "source_id": "RS-06EEB97387779691",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "These associations do not prove that a particular exploration exercise will cause promotion, income or employability gains.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    },
    {
      "claim": "A meta-analysis of adult work-related learning found goal level, persistence, effort and self-efficacy among the strongest self-regulation correlates of learning after controls.",
      "source_id": "RS-7A99264A4FC59B61",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The synthesis is older and does not establish that maximizing any one construct causes better learning in every context.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "When all development increases value only inside the current exact role or employer."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Specialization can be economically rational. Option value is a hedge, not a rule to become broad at the expense of valuable depth."
  ],
  "example": "A specialist keeps deep platform depth while building one public, sanitized data-governance artifact that can support adjacent consulting conversations.",
  "check": "The move names a plausible future option and leaves inspectable evidence, not merely another topic studied.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-06EEB97387779691",
      "title": "Career adaptability: A meta-analysis of relationships with measures of adaptivity, adapting responses, and adaptation results",
      "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001879116300604"
    },
    {
      "id": "RS-7A99264A4FC59B61",
      "title": "A meta-analysis of self-regulated learning in work-related training and educational attainment: what we know and where we need to go",
      "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21401218/"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-EA04F47374E04549",
      "title": "Learn new skills, turn them into career evidence, and protect the main development edge",
      "url": "/collections/learn-new-skills-turn-them-into-career-evidence-and-protect-the-main-development-edge"
    }
  ]
}