Building a Portfolio Career: Diversify Your Income and Do More of What You Love
40mGeneral2024-01-31
Authors

Jenny Foss
Career Strategist, Speaker, Recruiter, Voice of JobJenny.com
Course details
In a rapidly shifting job market, it’s important to build a career portfolio—a career where you have agility, more than one income stream, more than one way to learn, and more than one way to build and use your strengths. In this course, career strategist Jenny Foss shows you the components of a career portfolio and example career portfolios to meet distinct needs and interests. She goes over the full process of building out the plan for your own career portfolio, based on your interests. Plus, Jenny guides you through the steps to put your plan into action by researching next steps for additional parts of your portfolio, building out your network, and creating materials to market yourself to build out your career portfolio.
Skills covered
WritingPersonal BrandingJob SearchingCareer ManagementCareer DevelopmentMarketingProfessional DevelopmentOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Why you need a portfolio career
1. The Makeup of a Portfolio Career
- 02 - Understand common parts of a portfolio career
- 03 - Explore different portfolio career models
- 04 - Ways to diversify your income
- 05 - A Real Porfolio Career
2. Design Your Career Portfolio
- 06 - Get clear on what you want in your portfolio career
- 07 - Brainstorm possibilities for your portfolio career
- 08 - Outline your ideal portfolio career
3. Bring Your Portfolio Career to Life
- 09 - Study people doing similar work
- 10 - Leverage the power of networking for your portfolio career
- 11 - Create your marketing materials
- 12 - Create and deploy your portfolio career action plan
4. Conclusion
- 13 - Audit and fine tune your portfolio career as needed
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