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Poll of the week 📢
For this week’s poll we want to ask about your experiences explaining to people what you do as a portfolio professional 🤔
How often do people know what you mean if you talk about having a portfolio career?
If you answered the last option – what do you say? Let us know in the comments 🙌
How often do people know what you mean if you talk about having a portfolio career?9 Comments-
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That’s interesting Jen! I’m sure a lot of people are in similar boats with how they describe what they do – thanks for commenting
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Nikki Eve Wallis, Emily Milsom as you have more of a ”multihyphenate” portfolio career what do you say?
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I tend to say I am mult-hyphenated, and talk about the things I am. I don’t think portfolio career is a well enough understood term to be used as a baseline.
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That’s interesting. I’ve heard the term portfolio careers more than multi-hyphenated. I wouldn’t have had a clue what either meant before joining this group though!
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That’s really interesting Emily Milsom, I would have maybe thought the same as Jen, but it’s great to see that the term multi-hyphenate is becoming more well known – as Lexi Radcliffe-Hart always says it’s her favourite type of portfolio career!
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I don’t think I’ve said I have a portfolio career. Someone said to me that I had one and I was like ’yes’ and mentioned TPC. I’m generally pushing the Health Coaching as that is the business I’m building but I often mention that I have a background in copywriting and still have a passion for it and explain my ideal copy clients. I don’t do this with coaching clients, usually in 121s with other biz owners.
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Hi Nikki, really interesting! It’s definitely important to position yourself differently to different people so it makes sense that for coaching clients you would stick to talking about health coaching
thanks for sharing!
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I have been using ”portfolio career” as a contrast to ”corporate career” for over 10 years and find it lands well stimulating that next question of ”what’s that?” and after a minute of explanation they get it and say something like, ”huh, I hadn’t heard that or thought about it that way before” … and then I land my next point I have taken to saying, ”it is only when not if you will have a portfolio career” which really gets their attention.
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To be honest, I mostly don’t say I have a portfolio carreer – I say things like I ”run my own business”, or ”am self-employed” in most circumstances. It really depends on the person and circumstance – what they actually might be interested in about my career.