10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
From the category archives:
Girls should be ‘realistic’ about careers and motherhood – schools group head
This article in the Guardian has caused a bit of a storm. 230 comments and counting….
Teenage girls need to be taught a heavy dose of realism – that it may not be possible to be a perfect mother and a career woman, the president [...]
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Choices: I have them. I don’t have to work 9-5 with one company.
Responsibility: I take responsibility for my career.
Environment: work has changed forever – it’s not going back.
Assess: motivated skills (what I am good at & motivated to do)*
Talk: to others about your MS
Energy: to take action – are you a driller or filler?
Motivated [...]
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We have both been involved with a variety of interviews and with media people recently which has helped us to crystallise our key messages from the book. Alliteration always helps! So – with a nod to Gordon – we find ourselves increasingly talking about the 4 F’s relating to portfolio careers.
Fulfilment
Few jobs (yes we [...]
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A new survey by workplace assessment specialists SHL states that more than 1 in 5 UK workers reckon that they rarely or never feel fulfilled by their jobs. This dissatisfaction (which is particularly prevalent among young people) has apparently got even worse as a result of the recession. And although workers are reluctant to [...]
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In our book we discuss in some depth the importance for portfolio workers in having a clear understanding of what we call ‘motivated skills’ – those skills that when you exercise them make you come alive and ‘in the zone’. This knowledge then arms you to seek out jobs which will give you the opportunity [...]
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