Several weeks ago, I attended a session of an ad-hoc group of people looking to improve their careers. Some people wanted to change jobs and advance their career while others were out of work and were looking for a job. This group meets every two weeks to share leads and connections, explore opportunities and information, and learn new and different techniques to network and find that elusive next job. At this particular session, we had a life coach speaking about organizing for success in our search. In her presentation, she told us how we could get our heads into the game by allocating our time to activities that are productive versus activities that are ‘busy-work’ and a waste of our time. … [Read more...]
Gigonomics: The Contingent Truth of the New Economy
March 5, 2010 By
Just over a year ago, Tina Brown coined the term “Gigonomics” as she recognized the rise of contingent employment in the publishing industry. Many others have written about this phenomenon because of the global economic recession of 2007 thru today, and by all accounts, by all measures, and by all expert analysis, contingent employment is inevitable in all job functions, in all job categories, in all business segments, in all markets and in all geographies. It is inevitable for all of us. An easy way to think of gigonomics or 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 … [Read more...]
2010: The Year for Employment Solutions – Part I
January 22, 2010 By
The Work World Has Changed. The New Normal is Contingent Employment. Period. In my last blog post, I spoke of the rise of Gigonomic awareness in America. I want to explore the reasons for the rise of our awareness – especially from the workers or ‘providers’ perspective – and of the value and benefit of Gigonomics. I will also talk about a wonderful solution that is arising. … [Read more...]
Security, Flexibility and Life Balance
January 14, 2010 By
The true benefits to the free agent provider In the past, we agreed to work for an employer with the unwritten agreement that we would work for them doing what they asked of us and they would provide us with financial security. The Great Recession of the late 00’s (or as I call them – the Uh-Oh’s) taught us that employers cannot provide us with financial security when they do not have it themselves. Throughout 2008 and 2009, business’ sales were flat if not declining. Businesses could not get loans to fuel growth much less stave off business declines. Management, being held accountable for profit, pulled the only lever that they felt in control of – costs – and these costs included staff. Employees understand this … [Read more...]
