Project workers are on the rise! More companies are hiring project workers to work on specific deliverables. Project workers can be internal employees or contractors. In many companies, they are interchangeable. According to Charles Handy, an organization’s middle ring is composed of portfolio or project people who have specific skills the organization needs for special …
What is your Brand You equity? Never heard the concept before? The Brand You equity consists of all your personal attributes, ethics, reputation, and professional associations around your work, career, and job. Think how companies use brands to differentiate themselves from their competition. How do you use your reputation or name to enhance your business? …
In the de-jobbed world, a worker without a product is like a company without a product: full of potential resources, perhaps, but competitively not even in the game. William Bridges, Career Strategist As a worker, it is critical that you start now to define your Brand You and reputation. Most workers today offer interchangeable …
You are your first product, so positioning yourself in the market, as an individual is extremely important. Portia Isaacson, Founder Future Computing It’s not only about why and how companies add value and innovate. It’s about how suppliers, contractors, employees, and ultimately all of us must do the same thing. We all have to …
A major theme throughout this book is that we’re all leaders of our destinies as Me Inc., Brand-You or CEO of your career. In other words, we are all portable producers of value. As a product, we may offer a courteous phone response, engineering consulting services, gentle dentistry, or milling a machine part. All these …
We’re seeing more migration to temporary work. A recent study indicated that up to one-third of the companies reported using professional temporaries as managerial, professional, and technical specialists. Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, predicted recently that “in the future, the balance of employment power will change. We’ll witness the revenge of the downsized.” Well, …
As the marketplace, customers, and companies change, what communicates core values or a sense of who you are? The answer is personal branding or reputational equity. A personal brand tells people who you are, what you can do, and what they can count on from you. It becomes part of your character and personality. Can …
Even Harvard Business Review, the bible of corporate business, had an article that said: “The fundamental unit of such an economy is not the corporation but the individual. Tasks aren’t assigned and controlled through a stable chain of management but rather are carried out autonomously by independent contractors. These electronically connected freelancers – e-lancers – join …
When you look for a job, you are looking for something that is fading from the socioeconomic picture because it is past its evolutionary prime. William Bridges Work, careers, and jobs now shift like quicksand. The destruction of traditional jobs, the emergence of new careers, the role of new work rules, and the fundamental …
I have anxiety about test taking. I call it testpocalypse. Two weeks ago, I had the hardest test week I’ve ever had. I took seven important tests in ten days. I took four GED subject tests, two CLEP tests, and a math placement test. I was nervous and agitated. A little background may help. Ever …