- Provides a full overview of the challenges and opportunities flexible working can offer you in the gig economy, including how to manage clients and your finances, building a personal brand, getting paid on time and staying connected to a professional community
- Provides real-life examples of successful entrepreneurs and freelance workers who have built their careers around their lives, not the other way around
- Allows readers to consider a different way of working; one that is increasingly becoming more and more common and that will allow them to build independent and purposeful careers
- Allows readers to master a sustainable gig working mind-set that will maximise the number of opportunities they get offered, enable them to thrive independently and grow a purposeful and rewarding career
Working in the Gig Economy
How to Thrive and Succeed When You Choose to Work for Yourself
Learn how to make the most of flexible and independent working opportunities and develop a purposeful and thriving career in the new gig economy.
Key features at a glance
EAN: 9780749483555
Edition: 1
Published:
Format: 215x140
192 pages
About the book
FINALIST: Business Book Awards 2019 - Start-Up Inspiration Category
There are new flexible and independent working opportunities available in the gig economy for those brave enough to seize them. It is estimated that the number people involved with the gig economy will double in the next four years. New generation workers are realising that they can break the chains of corporate work and go at it alone. With flexible working hours, fluid work arrangements and technology that they can leverage to their advantage, people are creating purposeful careers that fit in with their lives, not the other way around. Working in the Gig Economy is the ultimate guide to successfully navigating the new flexible world of work. This is a book that will allow you to really examine the possibilities of freelance and flexible working. Is it really for you? Do you have what it takes to stay motivated, get clients to hire you and achieve that long-yearned for work-life balance?
Thomas Oppong is an expert in entrepreneurship and the gig economy. With this book, he takes readers through the main pitfalls of working for themselves, including how to stay productive, how to manage your professional network, build a personal brand and crucially how to keep the work coming and get paid on time. Working in the Gig Economy is the essential guide to having a successful and fulfilling career in the gig economy.
About the authors
Thomas Oppong is a technology blogger, start-ups analyst and a social media marketing consultant specializing in blogging, strategy and business development. He is the Founder and Editor of Alltopstartups.com, a resource website for start-ups and entrepreneurs. He is also the curator at Postanly, a weekly selection of the best business trends and technology content from around the web. He is a columnist for Inc. Magazine and The HuffPost and has been featured in The Business Insider, Quartz, CNBC, Entrepreneur, The New York Observer, Thought Catalogue, Pocket Hits and The Muse.
Work is changing. It's a great opportunity to realize your creative destiny. But only if you adapt. Working in the Gig Economy is the roadmap to get you there.
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