10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
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The Guardian has a great article on Who needs a CV in Mull? where multi-tasking is a way of life. And the inhabitants wouldn’t have it any other way. Coincidently, Hugh MacLeod, who provided us with many of the drawings in our book also had a grandfather in the Scottish Highlands who was a crofter [...]
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I had the very challenging experience recently of having our own question thrown straight at me. It was an interview conducted by vitae who have interviewed many people over the past year or so to give undergraduates and new graduates some case studies to help stimulute them to thinking more about what they want from [...]
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Great title for an article and indeed one with this title was published in today’s Financial Times by Mike Southon who has some good things to say about our book.
“For those of us with a “portfolio career”, a one-line description of what we do can be a challenge. Some people assume I [...]
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In our book we have a whole chapter on this crucial topic and an exercise (we call them Can Do’s) to help you identify your key values. We recently came across another way of analysing your results from this exercise by Rebecca Nestor. This took me back to research techniques that [...]
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We get asked this so many times that we have decided to put our questionnaire online. This is taken from Step 1 in the book. Look at the tabs across the top of the page and you will see the question posed. Click down and you will find the questionnaire. This is not interactive so [...]
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Another TED talk and this one is about work life balance. Readers of this site and our book will know that we have strong reasons for preferring the phrase work life blend. However, the points he makes in his very sardonic manner are worth the 10 minute view. Nigel has also written 2 books – [...]
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We have yet to find a job or profession that cannot form part of a person’s portfolio career so you might like to see how it can be done in medicine. I only just came across this article which is now 3 years old but the points are all valid.
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Interesting piece from CNN on multiple jobs. Interestingly the hospital clown clearly enjoys his work but the over riding ‘feel’ to the piece is that having more than one job is very stressful and that most people would not choose this as a workstyle if they could get a ‘proper job’. We of course know [...]
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This is the title of a great posting from Marianne Cantwell and if you do not look at her blog you should. Marianne wrote a short piece for us for our book and she has given us permission to reproduce an edited version of this posting. I especially just love her comment that, ‘I’ve thrown [...]
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This is the title of a fascinating article on CNNMoney.com which, in effect, is making similar points to those being discussed increasingly in the UK. Employers are sometimes the last to see the pluses of having a much more flexible work force which would also include these strange people called portfolio workers.
In 2005, the US [...]
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