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| if your present career path has been disrupted by the | | | | accurately termed, freelancing. You could |
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| If you’ve been unemployed or underemployed in | | | | companies look for when they elect to outsource a |
| any given career field for at least six months or close | | | | specific project. Instead of going over your head, they |
| to a year or more, you may be wondering if you | | | | put you on the list of possible outsourcing designees. |
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| experience. | | | | a permanent position with an established firm. But if it |
| In assessing your personal situation, and while | | | | means the difference between being unemployed and |
| researching career change ideas, you may have | | | | not, maybe it’s your most viable option at this |
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| To enhance your career prospects, while factoring | | | | strengths in areas where the demand for |
| your individual likes and dislikes in the mix, you may | | | | internet-based solutions is growing. |
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| Outsourcing and independent contracting has replaced | | | | your current career quandary could be made into a |
| many of the traditional tenured and salaried positions in | | | | valuable lesson that others could use and would be |
| corporate America. | | | | willing to pay for if packaged in the right format. |
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| actually feel increases their competitive edge. 42 | | | | in the shifting marketplace could conceivably lead to |
| percent of companies that have used outsourcing | | | | your own educational, information product born out of |
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| this is a trend that is not going away. | | | | others who are experiencing a similar career crisis. |
| While it is true that outsourcing has allowed U.S. | | | | Of course to be valuable, it needs a story line where |
| companies to generally pay less for labor in many | | | | instead of muddling through
You achieve a |
| lower and mid-level job categories, opportunities still | | | | breakthrough! |
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| Rather than simply trying to get hired as an employee, | | | | go-to-independent freelancer using online promotion. |
| brand and market yourself as an independent | | | | |