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
THIS IS A LEGACY ARTICLE. PLEASE LOG INTO CUSTOMER HUB TO ACCESS THE LATEST VOLUNTEER AGREEMENT TEMPLATE. Before you start working with a Volunteer, we suggest both parties, the Volunteer and the Company take time to understand each other’s expectations including timelines. We suggest you create a project brief to avoid misunderstandings and cap the […]
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 […]
A little appreciation goes a long way
One of the other projects I am working on is Deal Lite, where we capture investment data, refine and enrich them, and share with Techcelerate community and subscribers (you can subscribe for £5.32/month). I have been doing this with my wife since May 2018 and we kept it going without interruption for well over a […]
SkilledUp Life: How this all started
The journey of SkilledUp Life started on 1st of April when a conversation between Manoj Ranaweera (me) of Techcelerate and Anthony Chisnall of Driver Net gave me an idea. I invited a number of Techcelerate Tech Founders and Partners to a virtual meeting on 2nd to discuss the concept which led to launching Furloughed Life […]