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How to Become an Independent Consultant

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   Because of this, we found the recent MBO Partners' blog post How to Become a Consultant: 5 Steps to Starting Right to be very timely. Use Social Media to Market Your Skills. Their 5 steps are: Confirm that Self-Employment is Right for You. Develop a Strong Network. Hone Your Personal Brand.

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Uber Enters the Staffing Business

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  They point out in their blog post announcing the service that temp workers currently struggle with rigid scheduling and a lack of information on what jobs are available and how much they pay.   This, coupled with Uber's brand recognition and technology skills, means they could easily be successful.  

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The Growing Biotech Gig Economy

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It's to increase their business flexibility and agility and access hard to find, highly skilled talent.    According to their blog post Talent in the Biotech Gig Economy , only 25 of the roughly 150 people working at Nimbus are traditional employees. 

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The Decline of Employee Training & The Rise of Side Gigs

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The chart below, which shows a decline in employer-provided and on-the-job training in recent decades, has been making the rounds in the economic blogs.   In our most recent survey of people with 2nd jobs, about 20% of these "side giggers" said "learning new skills" was the reason they had a 2nd job.

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What is Fractional Availability?

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Companies use Directly apps to route support questions to a talent pool of skilled users and reward them with cash or credit when they answer a customer question. They have an interesting blog post on one of their top "experts" and why he does on-demand customer service work.

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The Global, Human, Strategic Accountant

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The CPA Success blog has a good article on the new Chartered Global Management Accountant designation.  This means accounting professionals need to have the skills to advise their clients on global issues.  This means accounting professionals need to have the skills to advise their clients on global issues.

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The Personal Revolution

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 Another quote on the outlook for people who aren't highly educated and/or highly skilled in ways attractive to data factory companies like Google and Facebook: “It means that life is very tough for most everyone in America” says Moritz. Moritz also covered the downsides of this shift.

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