New trend of managing a portfolio career Thu, Jul 10, 2008
Job Search Post A Comment »William Bridges, in his book, Job Shift: How to Prosper in a Workplace Without Jobs, states that the lack of job security in today’s workplace means that we are all temporary workers and that “all jobs in today’s economy are temporary.”
Employment in our culture has changed dramatically over the past 50 years! Used to be a person would be hired young and stay with the company till retiring. The pendulum has shifted to companies using progressively more outsourcing. As a result, a trend of managing a portfolio career started in the early 1990’s and is increasing.
A portfolio career according to David B. Bohl one, “in which instead of working a traditional full-time job, you work multiple part-time jobs (including part-time employment, temporary jobs, freelancing, and self-employment) with different employers that when combined are the equivalent of a full-time position.”
In the early 1990’s, guru Charles Handy predicted that workers will be more actively in control of their careers by working lots of small jobs instead of one big one, practicing the concept of managing portfolio careers.
Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D. wrote “Portfolio careers are usually built around a collection of skills and interests, though the only consistent theme is one of career self-management. With a portfolio career you no longer have one job, one employer, but multiple jobs and employers within one or more professions.”
Managing a portfolio career may fit well with your strengths, interests, core values, life purpose, identity, and personality trait.
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