World around us matters
Our role within SkilledUp Life is two fold: Find Volunteers to fill skill gaps in bootstrapped tech companies, so that they can survive and compete with well funded (usually venture-backed) competitors. Find Opportunities for Volunteers so that they can gain real experience and skills to land paid Opportunities elsewhere, either as a freelancer, contractor or […]
Importance of Company Vision
We have three types of Volunteers: Those who need experience and skills to land their first or dream job. Those who are testing a new industry, sector or discipline before a carrier change or pivot. Those who are well experienced and looking for interesting projects to get involved. For the last two groups of Volunteers, […]
Your professionalism matter
Many companies are reluctant to work with volunteers due to a lack of commitment and professionalism. This is an ongoing concern for us, and we want to work out a plan to ensure a higher degree of success. This starts with your motivation behind why would you want to volunteer? People volunteer on SkilledUp Life […]
Changing of priorities once we reach 1000 Volunteers
We are on target to reach 1000 volunteers by 26th July 2021 if we could maintain the current rate of growth. We reached 500 volunteer signups a few days ago. We now have to sign up another 500 volunteers within less than 2.5 months, which looks like a daunting task to say the least, given […]
Want to build a tech startup but no cash to hire developers?
Are you an early-stage tech startup struggling to build your product and no cash to pay for developers? We have 62 Javascript developers. They are looking for experience and skills. Some are still completing computer science degrees. Others have excellent experiences. All free. In addition, we have: 21 React developers 25 PHP developers 5 Angular developers 12 Docker 4 Kubernetes […]
Nailed the Bootcamp but can\’t land the dream job?
Just wonder whether you fit the above situation? If so, any ideas what might be causing this? Could it be due to a lack of relevant experience and skills? If that\’s the case, we might be able to help you at SkilledUp Life. We provide experiences and skills through volunteering at early stage tech startups. […]
Nailed the Bootcamp but can\’t land the dream job?
Just wonder whether you fit the above situation? If so, any ideas what might be causing this? Could it be due to a lack of relevant experience and skills? If that\’s the case, we might be able to help you at SkilledUp Life. We provide experiences and skills through volunteering at early stage tech startups. […]
Tech Career Discussion on Clubhouse
We are hosting our first ever discussion on Clubhouse tomorrow noon with three of our partners. Partners taking part are: Ismail Sadurdeen, CEO of Univiser (A peer to peer network connecting current university students to prospective students) Naz Cilo-van Norel, CEO of Women AI Academy (AI Bootcamp exclusively for women) Chris McCarthy, CEO of Focus […]
Get Startup Experience before you start your own startup Journey
Quite a number of you out there are hacking away with your side hustle which you think might become successful. And there are others who are dreaming of setting up a tech startup hoping for an overnight success. Setting up and growing a tech startup is extremely hard. The stories you reading of successful outcomes […]
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 […]