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Is consulting or contracting a career option for me?

  • Presentation
  • Career Development
  • 16. November
  • 10:00 - 10:45 AM (CET)
  • Plenum1
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  • Rahel Bailie

    Rahel Bailie

    • ICP
  • Leah Guren

    Leah Guren

    • Cow TC

Content

Consulting and contracting are not the same, in form or function. When you consider your next career step, you may think of freelancing. The usual questions are about logistics of setting up a business. Before that, you must distinguish between contracting and consulting, and whether your personality type is suited to one or the other. Making the right match can mean the difference between a successful practice or being perpetually stressed.

Takeaways

Attendees will learn the differences between working as consultants and contractors, and get clarity around issues between the two business models.

Prior knowledge

Some experience as a technical writer

Speakers

Rahel Bailie

Rahel Bailie

  • ICP
Biography

Rahel Anne Bailie is an Executive Consultant at ICP where she provides thought leadership in the connected areas of content operations, sustainability and AI. She has 25+ years of consulting on increasingly complex digital content projects. She is an industry speaker, author and university lecturer.

Leah Guren

Leah Guren

  • Cow TC
Biography

Leah Guren is the owner/operator of Cow TC (technical communication training and consulting). Leah’s courses have introduced hundreds of new practitioners to the profession. She is a popular presenter, published author, consultant, and public-speaking coach.

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