The Trend to Part-Timers, Freelancing, and Consultants Over Full-Time Employees
Offshoring, Outsourcing, the switch to freelancers instead of full-time employees, and all of the other ways big business wants to shed expenses at no apparent cost is a trend that’s well underway. Shortcuts all have a price of one kind or another. Usually that price is hidden from the bean counters that wanted to do […]
oDesk and the inadvertent freelancer
oDesk’s Brian Goler called to discuss the Inadvertent Freelancer concept. The discussion covered much more than oDesk’s abilities to help the modern freelancer.
The Inadvertent Freelancer (part 2): How to Sell
So, you’re now a freelancer – While that wasn’t your career plan, initially, you’re a freelancer now. How do freelancers sell when they’re really great at delivery? Read part 2 of this three part series on the world of Inadvertent Freelancers
The scary side of freelancing: the inadvertent freelancer
Not every freelancer is one by choice. The economy has thrust millions into the freelance economy. Technology can help some of them but what about the inadvertent freelancer? Who’s helping them?
Going Rogue: Taking a Leap of Faith – in Humanity, the Social Web, and the Brilliance of Marshall Kirkpatrick
By Susan Scrupski on February 7, 2013
So, I’m alone again, naturally.* I have been letting friends know over the past few weeks that I resigned from my incredibly great new position at 7Summits. It was not them; it was me. The more I got into the thick of the work, I realized I am far too independent for a real day […]
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