Thursday, August 16, 2018

FlexiOrg is a Gig Economy Marketplace | Gig Economy India | Freelancer Portal


What is FlexiOrg?


FlexiOrg is not just a Gig or freelancing job platform; it takes care of the complete ecosystem to support Gig Economy Professionals (GEPs).





A career in Gig Economy will not grow by just doing gigs/assignments or projects. It needs serious planning at the level of Gig Economy Professionals. They need to understand themselves before deciding to take a plunge into this as their career. Gig Economy needs a different personality, mental framework, and different attitude. They also need a support system as a normal employee gets in their respective standard organizations. 

FlexiOrg is an attempt to provide “Virtual Organization” to meet the needs of the GEPs for their sustenance and growth.

Flexiorg will help the freelancer community in their career management. It will help in answering some basic questions like 

  • Is the freelance lifestyle really meant for you?
  • Are you ready with future trends in Gig Economy?
  • Do you really understand how will you survive in the fast-growing gig economy?
  • Did you choose to be a Gig Economy Professional by choice or by force?


Professional Mentors associated with Flexiorg will help you find the right answers and help you acquire the necessary skills and attitude to grow.


FlexiOrg - A single window solution for GEPs.

Become a member of a true Global Virtual Organization

How Gig Economy Help the Students Gain Practical Skills | Gig Economy marketplace - FlexiOrg.com | Internships


How Gig Economy Help the Students Gain Practical Skills


Colleges and Institutes are intended to prepare students for their career but the curriculum is not enough to develop practical skills and make them financially independent until they get into the job. However, New Age Gig Economy helps students gain more practical skills and become financially independent. 

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What is Gig?

Gig Economy helps the student having skills that are relevant to the needs of the market. Gig means small projects or assignments, which can be done remotely or at the site. They are normally small in size and can be done in a limited period of time.

Not all the field of studies can afford to provide gigs but many of them have.  HR, marketing, Finance, Software development, Electronics, IT, Telecom, Analytics, fine arts, languages etc. are some of the areas where students can expect to get Gigs.

Internships are important and give lots of options to students to learn and experiment but they have limited scope and limited timelines. Gigs are not a replacement for an internship; they are complementary to the internship process. They are more like live projects but students get paid for them.

While the student learns the core subject areas while performing gigs, they also get much more in terms of “Induction” to “world of work”.


Practical Skill lesson for students as Gig Economy Professionals are following -

Critical Thinking and Logic

The current education system is traditionally all about getting the right answer, rather than the process of experimentation. To keep up with a changing marketplace, gig workers get to learn critical and logical thinking. He gets the experience to view data, issues, and solutions.

Employeeship

While gig workers are independent contractors, they have to understand what a company needs from someone they hire. Employeeship is an important point to learn, how a good employee should behave in an organisation. In the gig economy, they get to know what a good professional looks like, how to work with others, managing by influencing others where they don’t have direct control but can influence them with their expertise. They can also observe how their gig supervisors are managing them and emulate those traits to be successful in the career.


Marketing

The gig economy professional gets to understand the need of the customers and communicate with them in a compelling way. As one can’t just focus on being good at delivering core product or service, you also have to be in charge of sales, branding, marketing, and new product development.


Communication

As with any other job, good communication is the key driver of success and failure in freelancing. Networking, pitching new business, working with different teams every day, and keeping clients up-to-date all require proactive and professional communication skills, which a gig economy professional get to learn throughout the working.

Time Management

When multiple projects all have back-to-back deadlines, staying sane means learning the secret of effective time management is what the key skill of gig economy professional
There are some marketplaces, which help students get gigs. Not just a student can be part of it, they are good for educational institutions also. If an institute gets register with these marketplaces, apart from enhancing their Brand value, they get custom analytics and statistics about their students, how many of them have done the internship and how many were involved in gigs or got placed.  What work experience they got in terms of gigs. They will get reports that include stats like traffic from affiliated students by month, weekly traffic trends, and information about registrations. These institutes can use these metrics to add value to your students through targeted and data-driven educational programs on your campus.

The above article was written by Ajay Sharma, Founder http://flexiorg.com/ . 










Monday, August 13, 2018

Ajay Sharma, Founder, FlexiOrg, talks about focus on Skill Acquisition with Monika Thakur of The Pioneer



Ajay Sharma talks to Monika Thakur ( The Pioneer) about challenges faced by entrepreneurs & how they can make it big. This article was published in The Pioneer on August 1, 2018
How Entrepreneurs can make it big by skill acquisition
Skill development is an important aspect for all the stakeholders in the corporate/Industry ecosystem. Whether you are an Entrepreneur or Students, its important to learn and grow with respect to your mission and your aptitude. Gigs for Students is an interesting concept which is being promoted by FlexiOrg.. As it says “The EXPERT was once a BEGINNER” so having a good internship or working gigs can help the student become better professionals.
Entrepreneurs are also required to constantly learn and improve their skills.
If you like the article, please comment below. Visit http://flexiorg.com/ to understand how you can get good support in Skill development.

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Five Ways to know your readiness for being Gig Economy Professional




Gig Economy is not just a fad, it is going to remain in the system for long. With the increase in opportunities, many professionals especially those who can work remotely and are in the areas which a company requires on a regular basis but not as frequent to make it a full-time position.

Gig economy professionals who are taking the plunge into the freelance domain may be doing out of their will but many may be doing it because they need extra bucks or they are in transition.

However, if someone wants to make a career in the Gig Economy space, they need to understand some basic of this on-demand economy.






Five Ways to know your readiness for being Gig Economy Professional


1. What is my career orientation: Are you interested in more degree of freedom or you like a structured approach to doing work under the pre-initiated instructions.

2. Locus of Control: Who controls you? Are you a self-disciplined person or you need external factors/persons to manage you. Being Gig Economy Professional you need to have a high degree of "Self Discipline" as you are now your own Boss.

3. Multi-tasking: Being a solopreneur, you need to be "Jack of All Trades". You may not have support from other team members, so you need to do many things together.

4. A higher level of Tenacity: All the days will not be the same, sometimes it may be a windfall, but there will be rainy days. Are you a person who can withstand the pressure when work is not coming in an adequate manner? Do you have the patience to wait for some good clients, instead of jumping here & there to get a job? Do you have "Never say die" attitude? If you are like this then you can opt for this as a career.

5. An Open Mind: Customer is a king and any feedback coming from them needs to be taken in a constructive manner.  It may not be always positive feedback but having an open mind to evaluate feedback and working on them so that you don't repeat them will help you become successful Gig Economy Professional

If you need help to understand how to be in the race of Gig Economy for long, you can approach FlexiOrg to get professional mentorship. FlexiOrg also has a complete ecosystem for supporting Gig Economy Professional/Freelancers for their sustenance and growth. To know more Visit www.flexiorg.com/talent and enjoy a successful career in gig economy.

Written by Ajay Sharma, Founder, Get Me Experts.