More vilification of part time work

27 February 2012

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 [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

Powerpuff presentation

22 February 2012

Trying to keep up with younger portfolio workers and one’s own children for that matter I welcome Saga’s recent free app which translates teenage slang into terms that I understand. It has the wonderful title of Wotever!
I particularly liked the ‘powerpuff presentation’ as I have had to sit through too many of those – “A [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

Part time work getting more recognition

21 February 2012

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. [...]

1 comment Read the full article →

Steal like an artist

21 February 2012

where do you get YOUR inspiration from? some wonderful quotes on how to steal and create something even better…..

0 comments Read the full article →

The secret structure of great talks

15 February 2012

Many portfolio workers are called upon to make presentations from time to time. Some of us have presenting as part of our portfolio. Our friend, Andy Lopata in his wonderfully titled book “…And Death Came Third”, reports on the research some years ago as to what really stressed out managers. No 1 was having to [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

‘Smile please’ – do you really need a photo?

9 February 2012

A long running joke between Katie and me has been that as an ex-tv journalist and newsreader she has always had the most professional looking photos of herself available – and still does. I have made do with some pics that my wife took in our dining room at no cost whatsoever. The difference in [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

Portfolio careers “hint at a new atmosphere of muddle”

7 February 2012

I  just loved a letter to the Financial Times from Jim Sanders in the US in which he states that “Concepts such as portfolio careers, artfully deconstructed jeans, deconstructed jackets, retro T-shirts and male moisturisers hint at a new atmosphere of muddle”.
To my knowledge I don’t own anything ‘deconstructed’ other than possibly a cat. Of [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

Are you making the most of your email signature?

26 January 2012

We all have one. Many of us have more than one. This is your most effective way of delivering your brand every day. Are you making the most of it? Look at an article in Fast Company magazine that gives tips on now to maximise your band in this way. It certainly got me to [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

Is there a future for career planning?

25 January 2012

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 [...]

2 comments Read the full article →

And the future of work is ….

24 January 2012

…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 [...]

2 comments Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →