Finding Your Passion When You Don’t Know What You Want

28 February 2010

I came across this posting from Janet Cranford in the US and liked it so much I asked her if we could use it as a guest posting to which she has agreed. Her site is well worth looking at as she is an experienced Career and Life Transition Coach focusing on the over 50’s [...]

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The Data Deluge

27 February 2010

This is the title of a fascinating piece from the Economist this week which has this interesting titbit in it “Everywhere you look, the quantity of information in the world is soaring. According to one estimate, mankind created 150 exabytes (billion gigabytes) of data in 2005. This year, it will create 1,200 exabytes. Merely keeping [...]

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Visions of Britain 2020

26 February 2010

This is a site set up by Friends Provident primarily to launch an ebook of the same title researched and written by the Future Foundation.You can download chapters as they appear month by month. My portfolio has been expanded to include being called a ‘panel expert’ to answer questions sent in to the site about [...]

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Job search blues

25 February 2010

We have quoted before from Hannah Morgan’s website and newsletter about job searching and below are a host of sites that she is recommending for people who are getting disillusioned with the process. Portfolio workers of course are looking for more than 1 job so in theory could get even more demoralised. If you go [...]

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One way of promoting your book before it is written

24 February 2010

Interesting way to promote your business and also to get material for a new book. With what you hear from us continually about the future of work and jobs you will understand that we are interested to see if Scott Gerber has a new take on the notion of a ‘real job’.

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Passionate about work

22 February 2010

We make a huge play in our book about the importance of feeling passionate about the work that one does. We also talk about the fact that more and more people say to us that it is increasingly difficult to find one job that enables them to use all of their motivated skills and which [...]

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Part-time workers reach record high during recession, official figures show

17 February 2010

What is fascinating is the almost unanimous commentary on this phenomenon, namely, that part time work is on the increase because everyone doing it actually would prefer a full time job but for many at present that is not possible.  The belief of what a ‘proper job’ is remains the underlying assumption behind almost any [...]

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Think tank predicts 21-hour working week

15 February 2010

The Britain of the future will work a 21-hour week, with positive consequences for employers and employees, according to the New Economic Foundation’s (NEF) report.  The group said working fewer hours could solve a myriad of problems. Unemployment, inequality and climate change could all be tackled by promoting a shorter week as standard.
Currently, people are [...]

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Work Smart: Mastering Your Social Media Life

15 February 2010

This is a quick fix summary by Gina Trapani with some tips for making social media work for you instead of you being a slave to it.

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Portfolio workers often have to present ….

14 February 2010

…….which is why in our book we talk a lot about how important it is to define your passions, tell your story and communicate it to the appropriate audiences. This recent TED talk by Jamie Oliver, fascinating in its own right, is a wonderful example of how to communicate effectively when you are driven by [...]

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