Skilledup Life signs up 250th volunteer
Big thank you to our team for working hard over the last few months to accelerate the growth of our global free talent base. I built and soft launched SkilledUp Life on 1st Aug 2020. Mithun joined us in early November to help accelerate growth. With help from Mithun, we finally signed up the 100th […]
SkilledUp Life partners with Women AI Academy of Germany
I am thrilled to announce that we have signed our first partnership with Women AI Academy from Germany, who provides AI bootcamps dedicated to women. Founded by Naz, Azadeh and Katrina, Women AI Academy is working with women from all over Europe who want to better themselves and their families by re-skilling and re-entering the […]
Building a tech startup (Step 1) – getting the idea
All tech startups or any business for that matter starts with an idea in someone\’s head. Where do you get ideas from? Ideas come to our heads day and night relentlessly. 99.99% of them do not last the next 5 mins. They will be replaced by another idea. But those that stick around or keep […]
Opportunities Template for getting great responses
Here is our suggested template for getting the best results, i.e. getting volunteers excited about your opportunity. Opportunity Title: Make it a Volunteer position instead of a single task that they must complete. This has proven to be the best way to pique the interest of Volunteers and is easiest to promote on Social Media. […]
How to return redundant back to employment
People who have been made redundant or have taken voluntary redundancy have skyrocketed to 14.2 to 1000 employees, according to the Office for National Statistics data. BBC News reported today that unemployment rose to 5% from 4.9% making 1.79 million jobless (thanks Ram Raghavan for the tip), which is 418,000 more than the same period […]
When would Universities treat students like customers?
This blog is inspired by a recent Guardian post. The image on this post is taken from Guardian, all associated image credits go to them.. Do you know any University which treats its students as customers? You pay £9250 to gain a qualification in the U.K. which does not guarantee a job afterward. I paid […]
The new world of WORK-LIFE MIX
When I conceived the predecessor of SkilledUp Life in April 2020, I came up with two concepts. Some said I was crazy. Some were very angry with me. But now I have social proof of them actually working out. Am I a genius? Hell no! It was just stating the bloody obvious! Strangely, quite a few people […]
£411.40 Donation to NHS Charities
Last week, I donated £411.40 to NHS Charities. This was all the proceeds we received after payment fees for operating predecessor of SkilledUp Life from April to July 2020. I would like to thank Chris McCarthy Ram Raghavan Thomas Porteus Yogeeta Chirekani Bethan Weston Keith Merriman Michael Donaldson Nicolas Clarke for coming onboard helping me […]
A must use Volunteer Agreement
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Day 1 of a long road ahead
Today is Day 1 of SkilledUp Life. We are live and kicking without any fanfare. As explained in our inaugural blog post, the concept is now exactly 4 months old. What we achieved during this time was covered in the above blog post, so I will not take time to repeat the same here. On […]