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Advantages and Challenges – Preparing for 2011

September 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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If we are to succeed in the 20teens, we must first accept that the blanket policy of the old employment model – that of permanent, fulltime employment – is dead. The world has changed and we need to change along with it.  How do we prepare and benefit from the rising new employment model of contract, contingent, and at-will employment?  How do we as business professionals and companies recognize, embrace and benefit from this shift in employment models in 2011?   Let’s look at a few of the advantages of the new contingent business employment model for businesses:  Greater Competitive Agility – businesses can ramp-up, staff up and launch products faster by hiring necessary talent for only the period of time that they need … [Read more...]

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Success and a Future of Contingent Employment

September 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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An easy way to think of contingent employment is to think of it as contract labor for a specific task – a free agent employee arrangement.  Not just for unskilled blue-collar labor, but for skilled professional white-collar labor like accountants, marketers, IT professionals, code writers, CEO’s and all professions.  In the new, post recession America of 2010, thanks to Tina Brown of the Daily Beast, this is also called gigonomics.  Contingent labor has been in use since tasks were first divided amongst early tribesmen.  There were stonecutters (defense contractors), herdsmen (ranchers), hunters (butchers), tanners (clothing and shoe manufacturers), farmers (okay, they are still called farmers), and medicine men (healthcare … [Read more...]

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Five Proven Social Activities to Speed Your Job Search

July 9, 2010 By 1 Comment

It is easy to get lost in the activity of finding a job.  Checking corporate websites, responding to the opportunities listed on the job-matching sites, sending off resumes to recruiters, job aggregators and collecting recommendation’s on your LinkedIn profile.   Some of these activities are necessary and can help expedite the job search process.  However, for the most part, these individual activities are performed alone, without the help or assistance of others.  One of the biggest mistakes we can make in searching for a new job is to become isolated and singular in our search.  Some job seekers may come to think that they are in this quest alone and come to think of themselves and behave as an isolated individual.  When you … [Read more...]

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What Will You Celebrate This Holiday Weekend?

July 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment

This weekend, who will be celebrating control over their careers, their income, their time and their life? Imagine if companies bid on your talent competitively and YOU were in control and selected whom you worked for and how long you worked for them. Imagine if YOU could determine when and how you worked to perform the function or complete the project at your convenience – as long as the deadline was met. Imagine what your life might look like. Many experts in the HR field are predicting that this is your future. They are predicting that the power dynamics of employment are going to flip within the next 10 years, and that the power will shift from the employer to the employee. It is an interesting thought although unfathomable at … [Read more...]

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