Holiday Season Slowdown
In December, projects may wind down, emails slow to a trickle, and clients may quietly disappear as they head off for their own celebrations or take a year end vacation. For traditional workers, this can be a welcomed slowdown. However, for an independent workers who are not on salary, this lull can impact your budget.
Make the Season Bright: How Independent Workers Can Beat Holiday Loneliness
Twinkling lights and festive gatherings begin. But, for independent workers—freelancers, contractors, and consultants—this time of year can feel a bit lonely.
Embracing a Portfolio Career: A Path to Future-Proofing Your Work Life
In Canada’s changing job market, the concept of a portfolio career is gaining momentum. Unlike a traditional career, where individuals typically climb the ladder, a portfolio career involves juggling multiple roles, projects, or part-time jobs simultaneously.
The Top 9 Workforce Terms You Need to Know
In order to effectively navigate your career, being well versed in terminology is necessary as you plan your next moves or search for new opportunities. To help you get started, here are the top 7 terms you need to know and why.
How to Create a Portfolio Career - A Growing Career Trend
For me, streaming income from different jobs or entrepreneurial ventures started as a survival tactic. I wasn’t trying to be trendy as I worked several jobs to put myself through university. I was attempting to pay bills and tuition.
How to Personally Brand When You Have Multiple Income Streams
When you're a professional engineer by day, a professional guitarist on the weekend and a landlord, should you have more than one resume, more than one business card and what should you call yourself?
3 Reasons Why a Side Hustle is a Smart Career Strategy
A side hustle is an extra income stream such as a casual or part-time job or an entrepreneurial venture that you do after working your full-time job.
Why Contracting is a Great Idea
Over the years, I’ve been given the opportunity to help more organizations and add value to their business by coming in on contract. It has been a great strategy during transition periods, and it has created better flexibility and balance in my work life.
How the Messy Road to Entrepreneurship is Often Paved with a Portfolio Career
The road to entrepreneurship is often not a clear and linear ascent to success. Instead, it’s often paved with a messy income streaming, portfolio career.
The Realities of Becoming a Freelancer
Freelancing involves working independently for multiple people and/or companies on a contract basis. In other words, a freelancer is a self-employed individual who offers various services to their clients.
Do You Need Virtual Work Makeover? Here’s How to Make It Awesome
Remote work is growing. Virtual meetings are a reality. Virtual interviews are common. As a career coach, I have been working virtually for several years and training my clients for virtual interviews and remote work.
How to Love Your Job and Keep Your Dreams Alive
Redouane’s love for his work permeates the small Moroccan restaurant in Byward Market in Ottawa’s city center. I stumbled across Casablanca by accident as I was on my way to a breakfast diner. I veered off course to shop for sourvenirs and was further led astray by the promising smells of something delicious. I’m glad I followed my nose.
The Challenges of Working Multiple Part-time Jobs
Working multiple salaried part-time jobs has countless benefits as I mentioned in my previous blog post. But, there are also challenges with this style of work and, if we're not purposeful and strategic, working this way could do us more harm than good.
The Benefits of Working Multiple Part-time Jobs
Savvy portfolio careerists know that working for multiple companies part-time gives them more opportunity to share their skills, double the potential for promotion, a larger network and double the potential to learn and be mentored.
How to Always Have Your Toes in the Sand and Still Make a Living
Over the years, Al and Denise learned how to change gears and adapt their work life in order to do what they love and live where they want. They have designed a portfolio career in Mexico and Canada that is enviable in how they have been able to piece together work from two different counties in such a seamless way.
How to Juggle Multiple Income Streams with a Portfolio Career
Adaptability is the name of the game with portfolio careerists. They derive their stability from their ability to adapt to change. Although Crystal has a foundation for her portfolio career, she has learned to change things up and move forward quickly.