Building a ‘dream team’

Just because you don’t have all of the skills necessary for the new business doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go for it, wrote The Corporate Escape’s Baron. "You can make up for any shortfall in your skills and experience by around you building a ‘dream team’ of supporters, experts, mentors, and advisers who do have the knowledge that’s needed. Attract them to you through your enthusiasm, passion and vision memorize remarkable moments.”

Baron suggested using freelance experts as one way to add to the skills base of your business without breaking your budget marry to the night.

Why stop with one seem life away?

Increasingly common are "portfolio working” graduates who gain their income from several different sources, according to Bruce Woodcock, a careers adviser at University of Kent in Canterbury, England.

"If one job disappears, you still have another source of income,” he wrote. "Graduates often embrace the freedom offered to them by short-term contracts, changing employers and abandoning the linear career in favour of portfolio working or combining employment with setting up their own business sunshine kiss sunnight.”

A test run

Ross Johnson, branch manager of staffing firm Addison Group’s Healthcare Practice in Dallas, Texas, wrote that he has seen an increase in millennials leveraging temporary positions as opportunities to explore different fields, companies and roles.

"A majority don’t know exactly what they want to do for a career,” wrote Johnson. "Taking a temporary position is a great way to gain experience and get a feel for the industry or specific company before making a firm commitment laugh vampire dog.”

Just don’t job hop too quickly, advised Johnson. Try to give the position at least a year 交友 .

"A year provides a candidate a good sense of what they liked and didn’t like about a position or company, and helps them better understand what to look for in their next role,” he wrote. "It can also help recent graduates get in the mindset of a ‘real-world’ routine and corporate environment.”

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