10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
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I was stimulated to post something on this topic as I give many talks on the future of work as well as on portfolio careers. Politicians are rarely in the vanguard when it comes to recognising social change and listening to all the parties at their conference jamborees once again we hear the pleas for [...]
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There is always another way to do the work, life, spirit, money, family thing….
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I know a few people, a very few people, who enjoy commuting as it gives them time to prepare for the day or conversely time to dump it on the way home. Personally my very first job in London with the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) involved a 20 minute walk. I loved this [...]
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This is the title of an entertaining and provocative TED talk by Jason Fried who believes that the the office isn’t a good place to work. He refers to the big problem as M&M’s – managers and meetings. He offers 3 provocative suggestions as to how we can be more productive and creative in offices. [...]
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According to a poll commissioned by the Professional Contractors Group, almost three quarters of freelancers have made the deliberate decision to work outside the bounds of the traditional nine-to-five day, and that decision has made them happier than the average worker. The group asked 1,600 people to score how happy they are generally on a [...]
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This is the racy title of a very interesting article by Emma Haslett in Management Today following on from the latest employment figures from the Office for National Statistics This shows the number of full-time mothers has dropped to just 2.07m – the lowest figure since records began in 1994. Although the number of part-time [...]
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… according to the World Of Work Report 2010. This was despite 23 per cent of workers having up-skilled during the recession. There are also mismatched perceptions of what factors employers think will retain talent and what actually motivates staff to continue working for them, the research found. Employers ranked the main reasons driving people [...]
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A new survey from Aon consulting concludes that the UK workforce is the second most dissatisfied in Europe – superseded only by the Irish. Apparently, 47 per cent of UK employees plan to look for a new job by the end of the year. Considering the job insecurity around this is a damning indictment [...]
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Indeed. You read that right. Instead of just writing about how to create a Portfolio Career, Nick Williams, Adrian Bourne and myself will all be offering up ideas to get you moving or at least thinking of finding work that you enjoy and get paid for.
Nick Williams runs Inspired Entrepreneurs and has written a best [...]
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The Guardian has a great article on Who needs a CV in Mull? where multi-tasking is a way of life. And the inhabitants wouldn’t have it any other way. Coincidently, Hugh MacLeod, who provided us with many of the drawings in our book also had a grandfather in the Scottish Highlands who was a crofter [...]
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