10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
From the category archives:
This is a piece from Tammy Erickson from the Harvard Business Review. Her predictions are:
1. Two-job norm — More people will maintain two sources of income than ever before. Instead of relying on the onetime holy grail of employment — a salaried job with full benefits — workers will create a series of [...]
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Just discovered this website and organisation totally devoted to flexible working. Now not all portfolio workers work flexibly and not all flexible workers want to have portfolio careers but we have much in common in terms of what we are looking for in work. We want a better work/life blend and are seeking a way [...]
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Interesting way to promote your business and also to get material for a new book. With what you hear from us continually about the future of work and jobs you will understand that we are interested to see if Scott Gerber has a new take on the notion of a ‘real job’.
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In a recent post I reported the level of European legislation that was working against the development of temporary and agency work. No surprise therefore to see this creeping into the UK care of this G’ment which seems to have little idea about the new take on jobs that is developing rapidly. Go out there [...]
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Life is not made any easier for portfolio workers or indeed anyone working outside of the ‘traditional 9-5, 35 – 40 hour week’ by legislation on both sides of the Atlantic. An article in the Wall Street Journal recently stated that there ‘ would be much more growth in this sector if Americans—from the White [...]
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Not quite sure but some fascinating research on mobile and home flexible workers in the US but by the UK group Pearn Kandola began with the assumption that introverts might be more comfortable working away from the formal workplace. In fact they found exactly the opposite. They found that it’s ‘the employees who chase socialization [...]
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In our book we write enthusiastically about the Sliversoftime movement and there is an excellent article in todays Sunday Times by one of the founders, Wingham Rowan. He describes the frustration of helping people to sell hours of their time whilst being hidebound by a benefits system which only understands the notion of a full [...]
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We have Karen’s portfolio career described in our Stories section. She just heard yesterday that her organisation which she helps to run, the ANLP, won the Hertfordshire Small Business of the Year award and she personally won Hertfordshire Business Woman of the Year. Fantastic! Just shows what you can achieve with a portfolio career.
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When we did our book launch last week there was a very interesting question relating to the generational differences regarding concepts of work and career patterns. The more I thought about this the more I was reminded not so much of generational differences but family differences. We have all heard of families who have had [...]
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Enterprise Nation under the charismatic leadership of Emma Jones continues to provide encouragement and practical help to all those thinking of starting or who have actually started a home business. They hosted an Enterprise Nation Conference last Friday and launched their latest home business report. Log on to download the complete report but some of [...]
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