{"id":12187,"date":"2021-03-20T12:16:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T16:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ioadvisory.com\/?p=12187"},"modified":"2021-05-03T14:24:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T18:24:37","slug":"the-portfolio-career-part-1-of-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioadvisory.com\/blog\/the-portfolio-career-part-1-of-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Portfolio Career (Part 1 of 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"the<\/a>I often talk about building resilient careers, in fact, it\u2019s part of my tagline \u201cBuilding Resilient Careers and Organizations.\u2122\u201d It\u2019s only in retrospect that I noticed that I\u2019ve also been building a portfolio career. The portfolio career involves having several income sources featuring a mix of full and\/or part-time employment, freelance and contract work, and\/or a side business, rather than one single-source income, full-time job.<\/p>\n

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Author Charles Handy outlined what he called a \u201cportfolio life\u201d in his 1989 book on organizational behaviour, The Age of Unreason, <\/em>where he reimagined the reorganization of careers as portfolios full of different jobs. This could involve having a series of jobs, each for a short time, rather than one job for a long time. He was ahead of his time.<\/p>\n

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Without knowing it, I\u2019ve built a portfolio career by taking on a range of freelance contracts and integrating a few portfolios: applied social psychology (e.g., research on inclusion), work psychology (e.g., helping organizations identify and hire leaders and employees<\/a>), business psychology (e.g., helping entrepreneurs with their mindset<\/a> and leadership<\/a>), career coaching<\/a>, executing coaching, writing, and speaking<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"a<\/a>A key theme of a portfolio career is the concept of self-management. You decide when you work, whom you work with, and how much you’re worth.<\/p>\n

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Here are some portfolio career concepts that can be combined into a full-time schedule:<\/p>\n