10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
From the category archives:
As we always say it is always good to expose yourself to a new experience – even if it involves getting up at 6am – I am an owl not a lark. Interesting challenge in that you are given every daily newspaper 30 minutes before going live and you have to work out just what [...]
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I’m always up for that so was delighted to receive an invitation to review the morning papers on the Radio Leeds breakfast show with Graham Liver (that’s him in the middle) from 8-9am this coming Saturday. I’ve always fancied the “I’ve got news for you” hat so although not national this will do for a [...]
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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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In our book we talk about the value of using LinkedIn for marketing, networking and developing your brand. Hannah Morgan’s newsletter this morning gave us a whole list of useful sites to peruse to exploit LinkedIn. One of the ones I found to be particularly useful was 100+ Smart Ways to Use LinkedIn. Have a [...]
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We like to keep you up to date with opportunities that might help in pursuing your portfolio career. This was a site that we were not aware of when we wrote the book and the joy of a blog is that we can keep you up to date without having to wait for a reprint. [...]
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People ask us more about effective networking than almost any other of the aspects of portfolio careers that we write about. We have a whole chapter in the new book about this but are always looking for additional wisdom and tips elsewhere. I subscribe to an excellent site from Keith Ferrazzi. He talks about [...]
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An excellent posting from Liz Ryan discusses all of the most common phrases that she sees all the time in CV’s. Her advice – dump them and speak in a more human voice. And the top 10 to avoid?
Results-oriented professional
Cross-functional teams
More than [x] years of progressively responsible experience
Superior (or excellent) communication skills
Strong work ethic
Met [...]
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This is a guest posting from Hannah Morgan who has an excellent website packed with sound advice about job seeking. All of her advice is as relevant to portfolio workers as to people with other workstyle preferences. We quote from Hannah in our new book.
“People have asked me why I don’t talk about informational [...]
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