You decided to quit your job and now what?
- Important decisions to take before quitting your job
- Building a freelance and business resume
- Recruiters, headhunters and networking with professionals in your field
The Three Life Benefits and Two Challenges of Freelancing
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Benefits like the ability to work when and where you want, getting to choose your clients and projects, and the challenges of freelancing
Benefits: Flexible schedule, control over what you will do during the day
Challenges: The school gap that’s left with distance learning or certifications.
Is freelance life, full of benefits or should we be worried? However all works out, jobs highlight an electronic need for more flexibility in meetings in regards to a location. Mobile workforces thrive on this option and there's much less in the way of fixed corporate boundaries limiting them from their mobility by location . That'll come as no surprise to a lot of recent college grads who aren't always looking for a steady desk job - whether it be near their hometown or overseas.
The Rise of the Gig Economy & How it Affects the World in 3 Incredible Charts
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In 2006 only two million people were freelancers.
Today, the gig economy accounts for 33% of the total workforce - 85 million people worldwide.
Out of these, almost half are connected to the internet and mobile based platforms.
The Gig Economy has become a major force in global labor supply and it's bound to continue growing. California alone currently needs around 34 percent more workers just to maintain current staffing levels by 2020. Even if we assume that enough human capital will be generated by educational institutions, changes in technologies and preferences will not decrease anytime soon. The need for AI writers is certain to grow exponentially in future years, as computational power grows ever greater. With even newspapers predicting robot writers being commonplace by 2040 it’s a possibility that simply can't be ignored any longer.