10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
From the category archives:
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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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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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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21 hour working week – possibility or half worked idea?
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Interesting blog posting which spells out the variety of roles for which musicians could get paid. Wouldn’t it be good to take careers outside of the music world and to plot the possible different roles in one’s portfolio bag? Any suggestions? Good one this for a possible discussion on our portfolio careers linked in group.
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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 are an increasing number of sites in the UK and especially in the US that now post freelance opportunities for all kinds of workers. Most of these will of course be portfolio workers. We have just come across one launched in August for freelance PR people so pass it on to you.
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