Over a million viewers in 15 hours
This PewDiePie book trailer went live on YouTube yesterday evening, and has already been watched by over a million people! The film was the second commission for our new production company Stern &...
View ArticleStrength in numbers
Fourteen of us have started a new Facebook Group called In Portfolio to support, encourage and help find new work leads for anyone who runs their own portfolio career regardless of what kind of work...
View ArticleWhat Portfolio people want: Jobs? Community? How To? Advice?
Last week I helped to set up a Career Portfolio Facebook Group, which is happily now growing every day. I wanted to test what people were likely to really want from it, so I set up a test using...
View ArticleLaunch Your Portfolio Career: 10 Point Checklist FREE
I’ve written this short booklet as a guide to anyone planning to launch their own career portfolio – it aims to help people find what works for them fast, and avoid the financial and emotional...
View ArticleThere’s a lot of races to run in a TV career, hedge your bets
I’m talking to a group of newcomers to the TV industry next Monday in London about fostering their career path, organised by The Talent Manager. If I have one key point, it’s that there are hundreds of...
View ArticleTime for you to train up as Series Producer?
BBC training head Donna Taberer is running this one-year intensive training course, paid for through the Creative Skillset TV Skills Fund, which starts in February. You can apply now until January 5th,...
View ArticleFrom studio to Arctic and African photo safari
I run workshops for BBC staffers who are moving on or out, including one on how to use networking to change and improve your working life and opportunities. Trai Anfield, who had been a BBC local...
View ArticlePlan the Launch of your Portfolio Career
I’m running a workshop in February for up to 14 people on how to Launch your Portfolio Career. This is a workshop that I have tried and tested with the BBC Careerlink outplacement training service, and...
View ArticleBootcamp for people with a portfolio of working roles
I’ve set the date, July 3, for my next one-day workshop in London to help people to launch or manage their own career and lifestyle by having a range of jobs and incomes. I’ve been teaching this within...
View ArticleUsing LinkedIn to quickly turn your CV into an infographic
I love intuitive infographics and started last evening earnestly watching a 50-minute presentation by the considerably-more-earnest-than-me Kathy Schrock. And then, drifting away from the well-meaning...
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