Showed the way job's secured in design originally (10)

I believe the answer is:

signposted

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'showed the way' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'job's secured in design originally' is the wordplay.
'job' becomes 'post' (post is a kind of job).
'secured in' indicates putting letters inside.
'originally' is an anagram indicator.
'design' is an anagram of 'signed'.
'post' placed into 'signed' is 'SIGNPOSTED'.

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(Another definition for signposted that I've seen is " Clearly indicated".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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