Gig Savvy

Gig Savvy
Author: Richard Dudgeon
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2024-08-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1456655027

Transform Your Passion into Profit in the Ever-Growing Gig Economy Step into a world where your skills drive your success and your choices define your career. "Gig Savvy: Mastering the Art of Freelance Success" is your ultimate guide to thriving in the dynamic landscape of the gig economy. Whether you're a seasoned freelancer or just starting, this comprehensive book offers practical insights and actionable strategies to excel. Dive into Understanding the Gig Economy with in-depth analysis of key concepts, historical context, and the latest trends that shape today's freelance world. Discover how your unique strengths and personality traits can fit seamlessly into various gig roles, guiding you to make informed career decisions. Through clear assessments and personal reflections, you'll find the best gigs suited to your talents and goals. Build a Powerful Personal Brand that stands out in a crowded market. Learn to create a memorable identity, maximize social media, and develop a professional website and portfolio that showcases your work. With expert tips on navigating gig platforms and leveraging networking opportunities, finding work becomes an accessible and rewarding endeavour. Master the Essentials of Freelance Success by understanding the nuts and bolts of proposal writing, time management, rate setting, and financial planning. Dive into tools that make your life easier, from productivity apps to financial management solutions. Enhance your skills continually with curated online courses and certifications, ensuring you remain competitive and proficient. Achieve Balance and Scale Your Business by setting boundaries, prioritizing personal time, and managing stress. Explore remote work best practices, build a supportive professional network, and learn from inspiring success stories of fellow gig workers. This book also provides valuable insights for long-term planning, from preparing for financial uncertainties to scaling your operations. Equip yourself with the knowledge and confidence needed to turn your freelance aspirations into a thriving reality. "Gig Savvy: Mastering the Art of Freelance Success" is your roadmap to making every gig count. Dive in and unlock the door to your freelance future.

Sustainability in the Gig Economy

Sustainability in the Gig Economy
Author: Ashish Gupta
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2022-05-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9811684065

This book provides a comprehensive and contemporary source of reference for the gig economy for sustainable businesses with a focus on Industry 4.0. It covers the theoretical and practical implications of the rise of an alternative system in the era of technology-driven business entities; and explains the emergence of the gig economy as a crucial factor in devising approaches that will help in ensuring better decision making. As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, investors and corporations are attempting to overcome the turbulence in financial markets over the past few months. Governments and economists are scrambling to mitigate the impacts of lockdowns. Many businesses have transferred to a remote working system, and the critical challenge remains to make this form of work and business productive, efficient, and sustainable. Against this backdrop, the book provides an overview of the gig economy from varied perspective such as general business and economics; ethics, governance, and legal issues; diffusion of IT in the workplace; sustainability; future of workforce and workplaces during and post-pandemic scenarios. This edited volume also highlights several challenges and opportunities for managing the diverse workforce in the prevailing situation which has no precedence. With its discussions on the impact of the gig economy on the business world, the book carries appeal for scholars in the business, human resource professionals, industry practitioners, corporates, and policy advocates interested in learning about evolution, automation, marketing, and sustainability in the gig economy.

Beyond Talent

Beyond Talent
Author: Angela Myles Beeching
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0198037813

This guide is a gold mine of detailed advice, real life examples and options for any musician serious about a career as a performing artist. Offering an entrepreneurial approach, this book covers artist management, publicity, recordings, websites, fundraising, and freelancing, plus how to manage money, stress and time.

Ultimate Gig

Ultimate Gig
Author: John T. Fleming
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2021-03-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1839828609

Ultimate Gig will serve to answer questions and help gig-providing companies and workers make decisions by informing, inspiring and motivating as well as serving as a teaching tool. Most importantly it will give the reader a better understanding of the most significant labor revolution in the past 100 years as to how work can be done.

The New World of Work

The New World of Work
Author: Bashker Biswas
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2022-11-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000782514

Arguing that a functional approach to Human Resource Management is fast becoming obsolete, this book explores the many areas of accelerated change in the workplace and how business leaders must evolve their thinking to meet the needs of their workers and managers alike. With a clear focus on the accelerations caused by Covid-19 and how technological platforms have enabled working practices and business continuity, the book effectively lays the groundwork for a changed but well-functioning people management system. The authors present the new model of Strategic Human Asset Lifecycle Management that incorporates the drastic changes in how jobs are designed, how human talent is acquired, how work is performed, how work is rewarded and conditions set, and crucially, how labor laws must change – all to meet the fast-moving requirements of a digitized world. Enriched with cases that illustrate both well-adapted and badly-adapted organizations, as well as helpful summaries and thought-provoking challenges, this book is an essential resource for all those who aspire to great people leadership in their organizations, including HR professionals, instructors, and upper-level students.

The Distance

The Distance
Author: Eddie Muller
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2002
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0743217624

It's 1948, an era when newspapermen were stars -- and San Francisco sportswriter Billy Nichols is no exception. Known as Mr. Boxing throughout the city, he is the West Coast's answer to Damon Runyon -- an insider's insider who plucks and polishes his pearllike stories from the nonstop hustle of the city's nightclubs, gambling dens, and ringside seats. Billy Nichols is right where he wants to be, until he stumbles onto a shocking crime scene. Heavyweight boxer Hack Escalante has killed his manager, and for reasons Billy doesn't fully understand, he makes a spur-of-the-moment decision to protect the prizefighter. Soon Billy's in too deep, caught in a conspiracy of desire, deceit, and betrayal, and he sets off a chain of events whose consequences may cost him his beloved career -- and his life. As Billy himself struggles to escape suspicion, he must square off against relentless police detective Francis O'Connor, carry on business as usual with his colorful cronies in the boxing world, and resist his overwhelming passion for a woman he dare not love. Billy soon discovers that he's not the only yarn spinner in this nefarious netherworld: many of the characters inhabiting his well-honed newspaper columns have crafted their own alternative life stories, hiding scores of secrets. Whose story will emerge as truth? As richly ambient as James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential, this debut novel brilliantly brings to life another time -- when pride and professionalism are sometimes more important than life itself.

First Grave on the Right

First Grave on the Right
Author: Darynda Jones
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2011-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 142999326X

First Grave on the Right is the smashing, award-winning debut novel that introduces Charley Davidson: part-time private investigator and full-time Grim Reaper. Charley sees dead people. That's right, she sees dead people. And it's her job to convince them to "go into the light." But when these very dead people have died under less than ideal circumstances (i.e., murder), sometimes they want Charley to bring the bad guys to justice. Complicating matters are the intensely hot dreams she's been having about an Entity who has been following her all her life...and it turns out he might not be dead after all. In fact, he might be something else entirely. This is a thrilling debut novel from Darynda Jones, an exciting newcomer to the world of paranormal romantic suspense. First Grave on the Right is the winner of the 2012 Rita Award for Best First Book.

The Charley Davidson Series

The Charley Davidson Series
Author: Darynda Jones
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 960
Release: 2015-04-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 146688990X

Darynda Jones has garnered a strong following with her series starring Grim Reaper Charley Davidson. Here together for the first time in a stunning eBook bundle are the first three novels in the New York Times bestselling paranormal series: First Grave on the Right Charley sees dead people. And it's her job to convince them to "go into the light." But when these very dead people have died under less than ideal circumstances (i.e., murder), sometimes they want Charley to bring the bad guys to justice. Complicating matters are the intensely hot dreams she's been having about an Entity who has been following her all her life...and it turns out he might not be dead after all. In fact, he might be something else entirely. Second Grave on the Left When Charley and Cookie, her best friend slash receptionist, have to track down a missing woman, the case is not quite as open and shut as they anticipate. Meanwhile, Reyes Alexander Farrow (otherwise known as the Son of Satan. Yes. Literally.) has left his corporeal body because he's being tortured by demons who want to lure Charley closer. But Reyes can't let that happen. Because if the demons get to Charley, they'll have a portal to heaven. And if they have a portal to heaven...well, let's just say it wouldn't be pretty. Third Grave Dead Ahead Every time Charley closes her eyes, she sees him: Reyes Farrow, the part-human, part-supermodel son of Satan. Yes, she did imprison him for all eternity, but come on. How is she supposed to solve a missing persons case, deal with an ego-driven doctor, calm her curmudgeonly dad, and take on a motorcycle gang hell-bent on murder when the devil's son just won't give up?

The Role of HR in the Transforming Workplace

The Role of HR in the Transforming Workplace
Author: Anamika Pandey
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2024-02-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1003846076

Changing technology and the growing demand for workforce intelligence have ushered in a new era of human resource (HR) transformation and have compelled HR professionals to continually ideate, innovate, and adapt. This book covers the changing role of HR in the transformation of workplaces to be successful globally. With challenges come new opportunities for HR to completely transform. Currently, technology is considered to be an extension of human beings rather than an external component, which makes people less socially connected. Physical, psychological, and financial well-being in this machine-led world is driving the agenda of HR. Individuals with complex business requirements and long-term goals must coexist with the gig economy, flexible workplaces, and changing priorities. This book precisely addresses these issues. More innovations are needed to create solutions for an ever-growing digital world. This book, therefore, explains how the role of HR executives must be to understand how emerging technologies are affecting company culture, strategy, operational plans, and the hiring of future talent. Crafting a career path for knowledge workers with challenging roles with fulfilling job aspects remains a puzzle. Keeping people engaged and happier is one of the major challenges that HR professionals experience. Different generations in the workplace with differing styles of learning, communication, and dynamic expectations add to these challenges. HR functions must keep evolving to overcome these challenges to transform the workplace, and it is essential to recognize how HR can act as a strategic business advisor through the effective use of technology. This book provides practical advice in these areas. In addition, this book helps professionals, researchers, and practitioners understand the way advanced technology and automation are influencing HR practices and processes in the new normal. The topics are designed to capture the most advanced technology-based HR practices for workplace transformations in industry and academia. This book assembles contributions from experts in HR planning, human capital management, business analytics, people analytics, predictive analysis, and automation from across the world, contributing their knowledge to identify the different attributes of the above-mentioned field of study. The book’s chapters are designed and organized pragmatically to enhance the reader’s experience and interest, reflecting upon a few untouched segments in the HR domain such as HR data privacy, data security, diversity, and inclusion using explainable AI (XAI), blockchain, and metaverse.

Elgar Companion to Managing People Across the Asia-Pacific

Elgar Companion to Managing People Across the Asia-Pacific
Author: Eddy S. Ng
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2023-11-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1802202250

The Elgar Companion to Managing People Across the Asia-Pacific provides a crucial exploration of current business and management research, touching upon topics such as leadership, employee motivation and politics, and innovation to provide a timely examination of management in the Asia-Pacific. It addresses how unique cultural, societal, and governance factors in the Asia-Pacific affect business practices.