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What Highly Skilled Independent Workers Want

Small Business Labs

.  Like PWC's Talent Exchange and Deloitte's Open Talent Community , the goal of GigNow is to help EY find and engage skilled independent workers - both for EY's internal use and for use on client projects. The opportunity the learn and build skills. These are: Access to diverse and interesting gigs.

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Examining The Global Impact Of The Gig Economy Explosion

Allwork

For example, in world regions like Sub-Saharan Africa, job postings for gig workers on the world’s largest digital platform grew exponentially by 130% from 2016-2020. The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that about 70% of the world’s population doesn’t have insurance coverage. Who is gig work supporting?

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Tasty Tidbits: Professional Development News & Views (Nov. 18, 2016)

Eat Your Career

Are you’re interested in enhancing your leadership skills or just expanding your personal and professional horizons? Here’s the pitch: Join us for a transformative, cohort-based international experience that empowers you to make a positive impact with your career — whether you’re staying in your job or looking for a new one.

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Tasty Tidbits: Professional Development News & Views (Nov. 18, 2016)

Eat Your Career

Are you’re interested in enhancing your leadership skills or just expanding your personal and professional horizons? Here’s the pitch: Join us for a transformative, cohort-based international experience that empowers you to make a positive impact with your career — whether you’re staying in your job or looking for a new one.

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Why Networking Is Not Overrated

Success

I would love to live in that world, where talent, ingenuity and skill guarantee success. As the 2016 version of the study stated, “Women also get less access to the people, input, and opportunities that accelerate careers.” Grant’s thesis is that great ideas and great work find attention. But I don’t. And neither do you.

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If It Doesn’t Suck, It’s Not Worth Doing

Success

But as Robert Greene explains in his book Mastery , you can learn to love this internal resistance. So, you want to develop what Greene calls a “perverse pleasure” in experiencing internal conflict, and sit with it. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill, and then make it the core of their working life, will thrive.”

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How to Build a Library Worth Having

Success

Here’s a mindset to guide you as you begin: Your library needs to show that you’re a serious student of life, health, spirituality, culture, uniqueness, sophistication, economics, prosperity, productivity, sales, management, skills and values of all kinds. This article was published in December 2016 and has been updated.