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Yoxly – a forward-thinking sexual health startup that I mentor – is looking for a CTO and Co-Founder. This is an amazing opportunity to improve healthcare and work with a great team. You can read more here: http://staging.the-portfolio-collective.com/jobs/co-founder-chief-technology-officer-at-yoxly/
The company is Oxford-based but the role can be remote. If you are interested, or know someone who might be, please share/ apply.
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My two cents; The job spec reads pretty normal / well. The javascript / React want is pretty normal. Not being able to pay a salary is an issue though – this is a candidate’s market and tech leaders are hard to engage at the best of times (not natural networkers, get hammered by approaches from different recruiters).
It’s not going to be easy filling this without a salary and (presumably) without being able to pay a recruiter to help.
Unless you can find someone strong …
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Thanks Peter – I have been approaching people on LinkedIn and had a few people express interest. There are people out there who have a side-hustle to pay the bills, who love the idea of getting in at the co-founder stage (with generous stock too). Fingers crossed ….
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Appreciate you thinking of me. Although my schedule is busy at the moment, I’m always looking to pick up another project. Hope PC finds a great professional; this is a critical function.
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Calling all journalists & PR professionals – I’d love your advice regarding how we become more ’top of mind’ with professionals everywhere. We now appear on Page 1 of Google searches for 120 different search keywords, including ’portfolio career’. However, not many people are searching for portfolio career, so we are only getting 60(ish) new visitors per day from organic search. It is growing, but too slowly for my liking
How can we get portfolio careers much more talked about in society? Suggestions/ tips please ….
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Nika Talbot, Fay Edwards, Jabu Tamme, Jessica McGreal, Barry Hunt, Charlotte Buxton, Ruth Walker, Portia, Renette van der Merwe, Rita Lobo, Stephen Fleming, Elena Cobianu might be able to share some nuggets of wisdom
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I’m assuming you include other terms like ”freelance” and ”self employed” in your keywords? The portfolio career is still a relatively new concept. I’d fill your site with relevant success stories, and get involved in conversations that are already making the news. Like this one: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/12/jolts-workers-quitting-august-pandemic/
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Thanks Ruth – agreed
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Ben Legg. We often google symptoms rather than diagnoses. I wonder if we may be more like to google the problems that a portfolio career can address rather than the solution with these specific terms we may not know yet.
What circumstances, in your experience, bring people to seek to build a portfolio career?
I tried a few searches where TPC could be relevant:
– I am good at too many things
– Alternative to LinkedIn
– Multiple careers in a lifetime
– M…
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I dont think many people would search for ”Portfolio Career”.
Instead people would search for ”Career change”, or jobsearch .. I would be so bold as to put out an ad on all jobsearch engines with a fictitious job role selling the virtues of a multifaceted job, when clicked ” find out more” the link leads the user to a specific landing page which ”sells” the virtues of TPC.
I would affiliate with all job search, career, and career coach…
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Nice ideas Damien
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Unless you’ve come across the term (I read a book about it years ago), I suspect most people haven’t come across the title ‘portfolio career’ and think more about ‘part time’ professional or having multiple jobs.
In terms of specific PR, I think there are a number of routes you could explore e.g.
1. Pitching a specific idea for an article on the rise of portfolio working to radio, business magazines or business sections of newspapers (or willing to be …
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Thanks Pete – very helpful
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I’m not in PR or a journalist, but I had a few thoughts building on what others have already said so I hope that’s ok
1) SEARCH TERMS: I agree with what’s been said about the search terms as I wasn’t aware of the term “portfolio careers” until recently either although I have heard of “multipotentialite” and the more traditional “Renaissance Man/Woman”.
“Side gigs” tends be a more common phrase that people are more familiar with and perhaps using that term in an…
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I love this post! I identify so well with ”having to apologise” for not having a conventional career laid like a staircase of sequential steps. ”Having to apologise” because, somehow, I did not play the rules! Thank you, Jeanette Teh. I suspect many people will relate to your words, especially women who, while having ”a career”, had to deal with the urgent demands of raising a family then caring for older parents. The concept of a Portfolio Career sheds a ne…
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Thanks Jeanette Teh – very insightful (and human)
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Thanks Ilaria Vilkelis and Ben Legg.
Have you seen this post about the HBR article on ”Career Portfolio”? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonathankalan_why-you-should-build-a-career-portfolio-activity-6855834343013789696-EJ9h …-
Thanks Jeanette – done. April Rinne (the author) and I are also chatting about possible collaboration.
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Hi Ben, I see it coming up a lot in the media at the moment, think it’s a big topic that is only going to grow with convos around the future of work. So I think for you it’s a case of how to get a slice of the action for TPC and position yourself as an expert in this space. Some PR ideas:
1. Set up Google news alerts for “portfolio career” “side hustle” “freelancing” etc and other terms related to the sector (also any key competitors if you have them) – this will help yo…
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Really helpful – thanks Annabel Lee
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In our Let’s Talk this week we’ll be having a conversation about ‘Streamlining your Financial Management’ 💳
We’ll be discussing our research into the best banks for portfolio professionals, what you should be outsourcing and our favourite products and apps to help keep finances in check.
Sign up to tomorrow’s session, and share your best tips and tricks, whilst learning how to streamline your finances by following the link here: http://staging.the-portfolio-collective.com/events/lets-talk-financial-management-2/ – it’d be great to see you there!
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It’d be great to see some of you there – Annelise Lepage, Roohi & Nida Mohiyuddin, Jacqui Greeff, Earth Chariyawattanarut, Suma Mereti, @mariamara, Nicola Braggins (Barrett), Jayne Pullen, Tracy Rickett, Amanda Green, SarahBridge, Tarsha Shaw, Gal Abramovich, Brian Farrell, Duncan Dalzel-Job, Jeff Jones, Tracey Rob Perera, Jenny Collins, Grzegorz Sołyga, Pete Domican, Linh, Adarsh Nalam, Silvia Janska, Zarir 'Zed' Vakil, Eike Post
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We are hiring for a part-time project manager – likely 2 days per week. This is to help myself and the team run our larger projects as effectively and efficiently as we can.
The first project will be our ’talent matching for startups’ initiative, which is really exciting! See more here: http://staging.the-portfolio-collective.com/careers/project-manager/
If you are interested, or know someone suitable, please comment below or email rohan@portfolio-collective
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We have lots of project managers in our community who might be interested in this opportunity! Simona Bali, @laura, Liz, Annick Yagapen, Cristina Rotaru, MD, Ginnie Dallard, Rebecca Claire Graves, @jamesmenon, Andre Correia, Oliver Fitz-Gibbon, Adasat Baute, martin kilcline, Nicola MacPhail
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I am hiring for a Chief of Staff to support me and the ecosystem of world class startups, scaleups, investors and universities that I work with. A great learning opportunity for any aspiring founder or investor: http://staging.the-portfolio-collective.com/jobs/chief-of-staff-to-ben-legg/
The individual needs to be highly analytical, adaptable and a fast learner. If you know anyone suitable and available please let me know (or they can apply online).
Thanks
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Hi Ben, this might be of interest to Issam Abu-Aisheh, MBA (Oxon), Anna Zuccarini, Christian, JP Hamilton
Does anyone know anyone else who might be a good fit?
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Hi Ben, this CTO/Co-Founder role might be of interest to – David Ingram, Nicholas Grecco, Mike Smales, Peter Franks, Stephen Morris, Mike Smith, Chris Bracegirdle, ROHIT SABIKHI – or do you know anyone who may be interested?