Archive March 2012 Newsletter job4U2

March is one of my favorite months: spring is back soon, days are longer and energy levels are rising. This is a month to start new things and the ideal time for accompanying partners to consider their new career path in Switzerland.

In February, the part of our newsletter about reaching a better work-life balance initiated numerous exciting discussions with many of you, the topic of Dual-career pops up more than once. I therefore published an article in the job4U2 blog, which will certainly call for reactions:“Dual Career”: A “way of life” in Switzerland?

After “The unspoken rules of networking” article, it was a logical development to provide some resources on using LinkedIn for job hunting in Switzerland, you are invite to download the March article:

“How to use LinkedIn for your job search in Switzerland?”

Most social media fanatics of us will be interested to hear that I can be found on google+. The plus of this social network is to provide a clear “about” page with information on the recommended links and on the places of contribution. It also has the advantage to offer an alternative to the new Facebook timeline.

Next month, our 2012 edition of “a guide for the partner, region Swiss midland” will be available on line, stay posted!

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We wish you a happy beginning of the spring,

Kind regards,

Sandrine van den Oudenhoven, job4U2

Some aspects of being self employed

Mobility rarely stays an isolated experience and is more a circle in a career path: Being an accompanying partner could be a repetitive experience; therefore a portable career could be a good idea.

I do not really want to dissert about portable careers options in that blog, there are many available resources, for example the Jo Parfitt ‘s books “ a Career in your suitcase” with a 4^th edition on its way. However portable career often goes with being self-employed.

I would like here to share a bit of my experience of being an entrepreneur and highlight some aspects of being self employed:

If something goes wrong, you know who’s behind it!

If results are great, you know who’s behind it!

You can do your email till 11pm without feeling guilty

You can go and watch your son playing soccer at 3 pm without feeling guilty

You do what you like to do ( or at least what you chose to do)

Decision channels are as short as they can be

No inter-cross-doted-line-functional-internal customers: only real customers!

Being an entrepreneur develops your creativity and enhance your solution driven attitude.

There are many more aspects of being an entrepreneur, what are yours? what are the ones you’d expect?

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