10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
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5.1 million people in the UK. According to Judith Woods from the Telegraph thats how many people are choosing to work part time. After you have read the article – please read some of the comments. It gives you a flavour of how different people see this way of working. Some seem to think you [...]
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is the title of a fascinating book by Matt Emerzian who has an amazing life story which led him to write the book and then create a US nationwide educational and corporate campaign to get people to feel passionate about something. There is a great article in Fast Company which describes this well. One [...]
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A recent article in the Guardian provokes more discussion about the motivation of people doing part time work and setting up their own small businesses. The author, Melanie Stern, writes a fascinating piece about what she labels ‘odd jobbers’ – of which her mum is one. She gives many good examples of people setting up [...]
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I am really getting hot under the collar about this topic! After my last posting on this I was astonished the very next day to see yet more down putting of part time work in an article in Personnel Today. It begins with the startling heading – Number of people forced into part-time roles highest [...]
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An interesting article in the London Evening Standard recently highlights a new agency set up by women for women who are looking for part time work. Women Like Us is not just a recruitment operation for would be part time female workers but focuses on helping employers ” who value talent more than round-the-clock availability. [...]
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I just loved a letter to the Financial Times from Jim Sanders in the US in which he states that “Concepts such as portfolio careers, artfully deconstructed jeans, deconstructed jackets, retro T-shirts and male moisturisers hint at a new atmosphere of muddle”.
To my knowledge I don’t own anything ‘deconstructed’ other than possibly a cat. Of [...]
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Increasingly my simplistic answer to this is ‘NO’. Career planning seems to be an oxymoron.
Career surfing might be a better metaphor. You never know what the weather is going to be like, it changes while you are surfing, its sometimes difficult to stay upright and you can’t guarantee your direction or speed. And sometimes you [...]
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…very different from what it was. Katie in her last posting referred to the proposal to institute a 21 hour work week which would spread existing employment further and enable a better life blend for people. That is one possibility. There are many more and all relate to the notion that the Industrial Era of [...]
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Seth Godin never fails to stimulate – even if you disagree. I don’t know about you but I am getting heartily fed up of negative media, scared politicians and whining individuals (”its all doom!” “We’re all going to die!”) Well at least the latter is true. Crazy times in history have always been times that [...]
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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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