Write new chapters: four ways to relaunch your career after a pandemic year


By AGENCY
With the nature of this pandemic year – the extended isolation, the revised goals and priorities, the sense that our time is limited – may see you emerging from your cocoon in a different form. Photo: AP

If you knew Assane Savadogo before the pandemic, you might not recognise him now.

The 39-year-old worked as an Uber driver for years in New York City after fleeing an uprising in his native Burkina Faso. But after a conversation with one of his riders, he enrolled in a part-time coding course with Flatiron School.

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