10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
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Tweet I was stimulated by a recent piece in Fast Company magazine where 2 business founders had key meetings while they ran together. It reminded me that when Mike Scally and I set up Lifeskills International we used to do just that. I have always been a runner. Mike was more reluctant but we found [...]
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Tweet Last week I posted a reference to kindredHQ as I was very impressed with their website and activities. I especially liked one of the blogs written by Alex Butler and as regular readers will know we do encourage guest posts. So – I am delighted to reproduce her post below along with communication references [...]
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Tweet Its always interesting to see just who begins to follow you on twitter and a recent one was an outfit called KindredHQ. Fascinating site for people who are freelancers or considering it. It is a membership organisation but there is a lot of free stuff well worth looking at. It put me in touch [...]
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Tweet I did a post some time ago suggesting that career surfing might be a more appropriate term to use these days than career planning. Not least of which as it embodies the chance and happenstance factors that we know are an important influence on careers. I was intrigued therefore, thanks to google alerts, to [...]
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Tweet Don’t you just get fed up of all this stuff? Media filled with diets, exercise plans, detox routines, giving up alcohol for January. Having said that I know that it can fulfil a review process which we all need from time to time. I am just a great believer in doing it more regularly [...]
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Tweet I often get asked about the appropriateness of portfolio careers for older people. I usually refer to the research carried out by Middlesex University and quoted in our book which shows that Gen Y’s and the 60+ groups were the most enthusiastic for exploring this career pattern. Many people approaching retirement are simply not [...]
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Tweet Regular readers of this blog will recognise the name Marianne Cantwell. We invited her to write a piece on portfolio careers for the Gen Y’s in our book and since then she and I have become good friends. She invented this great title and is a walking example of being a free range human. [...]
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Tweet Not everyone with a portfolio career works from home but many of the people we talk to spend considerably more time doing that than people who ‘go to work’. But even for people who have a single track or serial career pattern who have ‘proper jobs’ – not like us - are finding that [...]
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Tweet If you want to read the whole report you can do that freely at The International Freelancers Academy. Is being self employed and freelance the way to go or not!
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