Our current view on careers does neither serve humans nor their organizations
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It ignores personal needs in our respective life and career phases
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it asks for hyper-paralellity rather than flexibility.
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Portfolio careers have no clear definition
The days where you’d learn one profession and then spend your lifetime working for the same employer are gone. Companies all over the world fire as fast as they did hire and with upcoming megatrends such as the gig economy, the working population often finds itself with only temporary working contracts or as the megatrend goes on, only single projects.
Portfolio Career
What is a portfolio career (PFC)?
Unlike traditional linear careers, a PFC involves multiple employers or clients and can include various activities or projects. These usually center around a core area in different contexts (e.g., a marketing manager who also teaches marketing) or span different skills (e.g., an accountant who teaches yoga).
Literature differentiates between constant portfolio careers (persistent hybrid entrepreneurs) and transitional ones (transitory hybrid entrepreneurs).
Despite the positive aspect of variety and many fresh insights, these trends can also bring the downside of financial instability and the quest for constant jobsearch.
• What does it take to build a sustainable portfolio career?
• What types of portfolio careers are possible?
• What are the implications you need to consider in order to succeed in the long term?
• Is a portfolio career something for you and your personality type at all?
We are currently resarching about the topic and invite you to participate in our short survey about Portfoliocareers. This survey is part of a thesis for a CAS in positive psychology at the University of Zürich and created with kind support of the Competence Centre for Diversity & Inclusion (CCDI) at the University of St. Gallen.
