Agentic Narrative Reframing

Career narratives often describe real agency — a choice to leave, a decision to specialize, a boundary that was set — using passive, reactive language ("I was given the opportunity," "things fell apart," "I ended up doing X") even when the underlying events show the person actively choosing. This flattens genuine decisions into things that merely happened, which reads as less credible and less compelling than what actually occurred.

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