10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
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This is the title of an article by Mary van de Wiel to be found on Dan Schawbel’s website. Dan is one of the leading personal branding writers and communicators. I was especially attracted to this as it refers particularly to students and what they can do to develop a personal brand and indeed to [...]
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Katie was recently interviewed for a site which was certainly new to me but which looks to have much potential for people interested in careers work life blend and diversity. As she might be too modest to post this I have done so. Enjoy!
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We rate Nick Williams highly. As is evidenced by the fact that the last paragraph in our book is a quotation from him.Katie also did a talk last week at one of Nick’s events in London.
He is co-founder of Inspired Entrepreneurs and explains how the security of having a ‘proper job’ is just a myth, [...]
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Good review of our book on Antonia Chitty’s site on family friendly working.
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Indeed. You read that right. Instead of just writing about how to create a Portfolio Career, Nick Williams, Adrian Bourne and myself will all be offering up ideas to get you moving or at least thinking of finding work that you enjoy and get paid for.
Nick Williams runs Inspired Entrepreneurs and has written a best [...]
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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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