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.

Gig Economy Professionals | GEPs | Who are they | Ajay Sharma | FlexiOrg | #gigeconomy

Gig Economy Professionals
Written by
Ajay Sharma

The world is changing. Millenials are slowly taking jobs in the corporate and as per Forbes magazine, there will be 70% millennials in US organisations by 2025.

Millenials need more freedom to work, corporates have a limitation in providing opportunities for experimentation. While corporate gives good opportunity to work, but higher risk appetite of youngster clubbed with opportunities in India have given wings to entrepreneurship/ self-employment.  Ideas are plenty and they have support coming from changing organisations needs. The other set of Millenials are ready to join Start-Ups where the salary is not the main factor, but the innovation and passion to do new things help in becoming self-managed employees.

This new age economy is called Gig Economy. Gig word comes from Projects. So it is in other words Project based economy where professionals take the assignments with clear deliverables and timelines.

The professionals who are involved in Gig Economy are called Gig Economy Workers or Gig Economy Professionals or GEPs.

FlexiOrg – an organisation which is focusing on creating Gig Economy ecosystem. It focuses on Right Time Employment, which means the right person for a specific project with a clear timeline which is called RIGHT TIME.

How will FlexiOrg create Gig Economy Ecosystem? The ecosystem needs HR support, career development support, Insurances, Benefits,  time sheets, assessment etc. FlexiOrg will provide all such support to Gig Economy Professionals.

Niti Aayog released India's National Strategy on Artificial Intelligence| Ajay Sharma | #AIFORALL #AI

National Strategy on Artificial Intelligence 

Recently Niti Aayog released its National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence. Where it talked about various aspects of AI, what is it, how will it be used in India, Where are the gaps & challenges, how do we acquire expertise in these areas, which sector will get the best advantage from India's point of view.


There is a huge opportunity predicted in the paper and it is estimated that India's annual Growth rate can be boosted by 1.3% points by 2035. As per Accenture, AI will drive innovation in India and may add 1 trillion USD by 2035.


The discussion paper talks about some interesting concepts like Solve for India means to solve for 40% or more of the world. What it says that AI-based solutions developed in India can be easily applied to developing & emerging countries.

Focus Sector for Artificial Intelligence for India

• Agriculture
• Education
• Smart Cities
• Smart Mobility
• Healthcare

However, there are challenges in implementation

Some of these are mentioned in the strategy document. These are not an exhaustive list but raise important points.

• Lack of enabling data ecosystems 
• Low intensity of AI research 
• i. Core research in fundamental technologies 
• ii. Transforming core research into market applications 
• Inadequate availability of AI expertise, manpower and skilling opportunities 
• High resource cost and low awareness for adopting AI in business processes 
• Unclear privacy, security and ethical regulations 
• Unattractive Intellectual Property regime to incentivise research and adoption of AI.

Do we have enough EXPERTS in AI?

The paper talks about the lack of AI Experts and Original research in India. It recommends an agile approach to boost expertise development through COREs (Centres of Research Excellence in Artificial Intelligence) & ICTAI (International Centre for Transformational Artificial Intelligence). COREs will be focused on core research, in evolving and new areas of AI, and will act as the technology feeders for ICTAIs which will be focused on creating AI-based applications for, and accelerating early adoption in, domains of societal importance.


My take on the availability of AI Experts is a bit simpler, we need to take the advantage of being late movers in this space. India has the high calibre in creating software for APPLICATION of technology. While the discussion paper focuses on various long-term strategies to develop expertise in AI, however, our ICT Experts can work on two main areas in next few years.

• Creation of quality training data required for developing AI in select sectors
• Developing Application software based on AI technology available from other countries and leapfrog into use cases related to Healthcare, education, smart cities, Smart mobility and Agriculture.

So let's make the best use of these experts for the benefits of our citizens. This will enable India in developing AI ecosystem, acceptability, and most importantly managing the fear of job losses and privacy issues.


We, at Get Me Experts are aggregating the experts in Artificial Intelligence from across the world so that a co-development approach can be used in developing high-end algorithms or solutions which can help India and also other developing countries.


I strongly recommend that everyone related to Artificial Intelligence, either in India or Overseas, must read whole strategy paper #aiforall

Compiled by

Ajay Sharma

Founder & CEO

Get Me Experts. Com

https://www.getmeexperts.com 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajaysh

Reference document: http://niti.gov.in/writereaddata/files/document_publication/NationalStrategy-for-AI-Discussion-Paper.pdf  #AIforall


Read about Gig Economy Profesisonals : a new breed of asscoaites to bring organisational effectiveness http://gig-economy.blogspot.com/2018/06/gig-economy-professionals-geps-who-are.html

5 ways to effectively engage Gig Economy Professionals | Ajay Sharma | Get Me Experts | On Demand Experts

Gig Economy Professional are becoming an integral part of the modern-day economy. The trend is catching up fast but it requires some planning on the part of organisations, entrepreneurs, HR to effectively engage them in the organisation.

Ajay Sharma, founder of  "Get Me Experts" wrote about the 5 ways these professionals can be effectively engaged in the organisation, both at the Strategic level and also at the operational level.

Read the full article 

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/314738

If you want to know more about how to bring the best from Gig Economy Workers or Professionals, send your feedback to the author at ajay@getmeexperts.com

To know more about the author visit https://www.getmeexperts.com/founder