How to get started with your portfolio career – 3 key stages

There are 3 key stages to launching your own successful portfolio career:

Stage 1: Re-evaluating your career

Stage 2: Marketing your portfolio career

Stage 3: Managing your portfolio career

Stage 1: Re-evaluating your career

Deep self-reflection is common and very useful, if not essential, before starting your portfolio career, in order to ensure efficiency, maximum success, minimum stress, and a bespoke work-life blend to fit you exactly.

Many life and work events create a career or life crossroads – a catalyst for a need to re-evaluate and a desire to make a positive change. These include; not achieving a promotion or pay rise, having a baby, divorce, returning to work after having children, a stress tipping point, moving locations/countries for a partner’s job, redundancy or a bereavement.

Stage 2: Marketing your portfolio career

Research by Executive Appointments shows that the most important elements for success are networking and self-marketing. Yet in their study, 32% of professionals worry about finding suitable roles and 21% worry about the constant need to network.

We help many of our clients to market themselves. Women naturally feel uncomfortable marketing themselves, which is partly why a low proportion of women achieve partnership or enjoy the same rewards as their male peers, with the result that many women opt out of the law. We help our clients to find self-marketing strategies that work and are time and cost-efficient. We have run many events and written articles in this area and, as seasoned networkers, we can support you in many ways.

Stage 3: Managing your portfolio career

Multiple work strands means more things to juggle, so it is essential to be organised and have good systems and processes in order to be efficient and look professional.

We have perfected our own self-management over the last 17 years so can share shortcuts and tips to help, including time-saving technology, templates and tools, and using a virtual PA.