Monetise Your Knowledge

Many people dream of going self employed and in recent years more and more have been turning that dream into a reality. There are many benefits to self employment, not least of which is being your own boss, and as running a business from home has become more and more practical, the numbers of self employed people are only going up.

In the UK, if you’re working for an employer then you’re almost always guaranteed the right to a national minimum wage with very few exceptions. That said, where there are legal loopholes, you’ll always find unscrupulous people willing to capitalise on an opportunity.

Cybersecurity has been around for decades now, and yet the market only continues to grow. In fact, unlike other growth industries in the tech space where the market will tend to bubble sharply before settling into a steady incline, the demand for cybersecurity increased at a rapid pace while supply has struggled to meet it.

Finding STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) jobs has always been seen as a reliable path to stable income. Many STEM jobs are high-earning, and they play vital practical roles in our day-to-day lives. From applied mathematics and computer science jobs to careers in medicine and even teaching, there are countless STEM career paths you can take.

Skills evaluation is absolutely crucial in the workplace. Whether you’re accessing your own skills or someone else’s, it’s very important to be able to take a step back and make some objective, evidence based judgements about what a person can and cannot do.

So today we’ll be breaking down the basics and exploring what you can do in your first year of employment to help set yourself up for a long and lucrative career.