Careers
From a first role to the next one
People entering work and people changing work need practice on real problems, not a tour of vocabulary.
The advice offered to people at the start of a career and to people in the middle of a change is often the same brochure: learn the tools, build a network, stay curious. None of that is false. None of it is specific enough to help on a Wednesday.
A career changes when a person can do a harder problem, not when the job title does.
What helps is a problem with edges. A service that is late. A price that does not cover the cost to deliver. A team that cannot say who decides. Working that problem with someone who has seen a hundred versions of it teaches the move: how to separate fact from preference, how to write the choice, how to notice when a clever answer ignores the constraint that will actually bind.
First Axis runs an online path for both moments. Career starters use it to learn how an enterprise problem is framed. People changing fields use it to translate experience they already have into a new context. The exercises are written. There is no video track and no feed to perform on. The point is the practice.
The same path sits underneath our work with clients. A company that wants the skill to remain after we leave needs its own people to have done the problem, not watched it. The exercises published here are that path, written so a person can work them on their own.
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