10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
From the category archives:
Don’t know how many of you get the Linkedin portfolio careers group. It is now an open group and we have almost 300 members and increasingly people are initiating some very interesting discussions. If you have not joined please do so and then you will be notified of any new discussions.
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This is a beautiful video that expresses concisely the power of words. So many portfolio workers rely on communication to get us work, to deliver work and to review our work. Networking in particular though crucial we argue to every worker is especially vital to us. Enjoy! And be creative.
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I was most impressed to get an invitation to attend the first meeting to be organised for portfolio workers in London to get together to discuss issues and to find kindred spirits. This will now meet monthly and I certainly intend to visit as soon as I can. I live in Leeds so it is [...]
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StartUp Britain is a new campaign which hopes to inspire people across Britain to start and grow a business.
( A note from Oli Barratt)
A group of 8 (me, Rajeeb Dey, Richard O’Connor, Emma Jones, Michael Hayman, Jamie Murray Wells, Lara Morgan and Duncan Cheatle sat down to think about what would be practical, useful and [...]
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We keep on telling people that they should be as googleme is the new business card. And LinkedIn’s CEO Jeff Weiner just announced that the professional network has now reached 100 million users worldwide. We keep hearing stories about the value of this online networking system. There are other interesting possibilities about too and we [...]
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This week I was talking again to accountants who belong to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW). 80 very senior accountant types turned up to hear about portfolio careers. Interestingly about a quarter of them already had portfolio careers and I am finding this happening more and more when I talk [...]
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We have talked about PCG before. It is an independent not-for-profit professional association. Their mission is representing, supporting and promoting the freelance community, with specific attention to the needs of those freelancers who are members of PCG. They offer some interesting events in addition to their member services and my eye was taken with one [...]
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The one question we probably get asked more than any other is ‘how do you start’. Carolyn Pearson is someone who has just done that so it is very interesting to listen to her strategy. Like so many portfolio workers we have met she has used redundancy money to buy her some time, she has [...]
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