Insights from ET Careers webinar: The rising scope of freelance gigs as careers
In some of these cases, highly qualified people are choosing freelancing/gig as a way of working. They do it as they see several advantages like flexibility, possibility of greater income, and work-life balance.
Yet, it is still considered difficult to make it a long-term career. How can we enable that transition?
In our recent ET Careers webinar to find the answers to these emerging questions, we spoke with Mr.
Sunil C, CEO TeamLease Digital a company which is helping many companies find the right gig talent and with Mr. Arjun Nair, Cofounder, Great Learning a firm which is helping many professionals upskill on their way to roles, including gig ones.
Both Sunil and Arjun acknowledged some of the challenges in this journey.
There are no fixed pay cheques leading to variability in income. And a person choosing this road is literally, alone, while having to manage multiple aspects from getting the projects to executing them and closing all other related aspects.
At the same time, there is growing need for white-collar gig roles, both from industries they shared, specially in highly technical areas such as coding, cyber security, content, design, marketing and from experienced professionals who see the potential.
