Friday, 19 January 2018

NEXT-GEN Nescot week 10 - SWOT analysis

SWOT

Toby Roberts

Freelancing:

Strengths:

1.Choose when you work (Flexible hours).
2.Control over jobs and clients.
3.Choose where you work.
4.Choose what you work on.
5.You keep all your earned profits.

Weaknesses:

1.No guarantee of work or money.
2.Potentially make less money.
3.Few employment rights and no workplace pension.
4.Isolation.
5.Harder distinguishing between work and personal time.

Opportunities

1.Variety of projects

Threats

1.Negotiation of contracts
2.Other freelancers that are better than you or cost less money

Self-employed:

Strengths:

1.Choose when you work (Flexible hours).
2,Choose where you work.
3.Choose what you work on.
4.Potentially make more money.

Weaknesses:

1.No guarantee of work or money.
2.Potentially make less money.
3.Few employment rights and no workplace pension.
4.Isolation.

Opportunities

1.Variety of projects

Threats

1.Negotiation of contracts

Short term employed contract:

Strengths:

1.You have the chance to become a full time employee depending on if you impress your employer(s).
2.Your most important part in your contract is what you produce to your employer so you may end up not needing to get involved with workplace politics.
3.As you are paid as a “contractor” instead of regular staff, you may be able to deduct a portion of your work related expenses that normal staff wouldn’t qualify for.
4.You can sample a number of employers by taking multiple contracts in a variety of industries.

Weaknesses:

1.You may not be offered entitlements such as vacation pay, benefits, training allowances and pension contributions made by the employer.
2.There will be no severance pay offered to you at the end of your contract (unless you negotiated a provision for this in your terms of employment).
3.You will be paid as a contractor and your employer will not deduct for taxes. So you must make sure to remit your taxes to the government on your own.
4.Other employees may not converse as much with you (share as much information or invite you to their inner circle) because they know you are only working there for a specific amount of time.

Opportunities

1.Variety of projects

Threats

1.Other employees being better at your job than you.

Full time employed contract:

Strengths:

1.Fixed salary
2.Sanctioned leaves
3.Working schedule
4.Career growth
5.Job perks

Weaknesses:

1.Stagnant work
2.No time to ‘find your thing’
3.Job hunting is difficult
4.Versatility missing in your Resume

Opportunities

1.The ability to be promoted to higher tear jobs with more pay.

Threats

1.Over reliance on the company

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