Stéphane Kasriel
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first heard Oct 2017
last heard Oct 2017
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The employees are essentially hoping that their big corporation and their employers are going to take care of their reskilling and they're really waiting for it to happen.
And as a result, they're not getting reskilled.
Whereas freelancers are constantly looking out to the future to see what skills are going to be in demand tomorrow and how do I best get prepared for the skills of tomorrow.
Yeah, and I think that's really tied to this idea that you need to reskill yourself continuously throughout your life.
There was a time maybe 20 or 30 years ago where you could study for the first 15, 20 years of your life and then work for a company and essentially work for the same employer for the rest of your life and potentially using the same skills over and over again.
These days are long gone and freelancers are more aware than traditional employees that you need to constantly be in a learning mode where you want to understand where the world is going and find the intersection between what you're good at and passionate about and what demand for skills are going to look like.
And that should be your niche and that should be what you really focus on.
Yeah, what we see mostly is companies doing this because they need to attract skills that they don't have internally.
So what we see a lot is companies, particularly bigger companies, really struggle with this change of technology and they struggle with having the right skills internally.
So they go out to a freelance website like Upwork or others to find talented individuals that they just don't have as full-time employees.
So what we find is probably the key difference in attitudes and behaviors between full-time employees and freelancers is this notion of income predictability.
As a full-time employee, you're going to get paid usually a fixed amount of money, although it depends, but typically on a fixed schedule every two weeks or twice a month.
As a freelancer, you get paid based on the ebbs and flows of your business.
And so it is a source of concern for freelancers.
You know, I'm having a good month this month.
How do I make sure that next month is just as good or even better?
Yeah, what we find is freelancers will say that they invest their time with their clients the same way that they invest in the stock market.
You know, you don't put all of your money into one stock.
And for the same reason, you don't work with a single client.
So instead, what they typically do is they work with four and a half clients every month.
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