ALUMRISE

In this our launch week, I’d like to take a moment to talk about some thoughts and perceptions on the new global talent economy.
 
I believe each of us will face some seminal challenges and emerging issues — but these are ones that we can solve, together:
 
We must come to terms with the struggle between private lives, and the growing pressure for a public brand identity to enable our continued employment and survival in a changing global landscape.

• How we will shape our dual or quadruple life brands? How will our future buyers react? How will we feel and act in this atmosphere of 24/7 exposure? To support our members, I’d like to continue to talk about privacy and public identity in the ALUMRISE blog, and I hope you’ll join in our future dialogue.

We must find new, flexible, real-time ways to grow skills and experience to ensure they we get ahead and do not, like the machines that drove industries of yore, become redundant due to macro economic shifts.

• In upcoming days and months, I’d like to talk about how a real-time talent economy tool like ALUMRISE can help move people more swiftly into new industries and new roles, helping them to define skills and opportunities much, much more broadly. And I’ll talk about the myth of work redundancy, driven by an industrial mindset that should no longer define us, and frankly probably never should have. I’d like to talk about the myth of the line between work and life for everyone from retirees, to exiting mothers and newly minted workers. I hope you’ll participate and share your earned wisdom via our blogs and future ALUMRISER forums, and also explore new solutions we’ll be launching. 

And we must reconcile with confusing issues like how to shape our own life stability if income is not fixed or if work is cyclical and dynamic, and learn how to shore up energy and resources to manage a longer life and work span than perhaps we started out being prepared to invest in and for.

• If you are facing choices or introspection around these topics, I hope you will join us in providing and supporting solutions and in proposing better ways to manage the changing nature of work, either by contributing your voice or perspective as a future guest-blogger, or by supporting our solutions for continued income and opportunity for all those across the demographic and life stage spectrum, from first-time workforce entrants, to the newly retired from work, but not life.

It’s about time we gathered ’round to talk about these issues, because we are all bound by common circumstance, common life stage, common realization or uncommon intellect, about the changing nature of the way we will work and live. 
 
I’ll end with a tip: Within our launch Gathering Place marketplace, simply press “go” to see ALUMRISER members in the simple search bar, and recognize that there’s others out there like you facing the same questions and decisions on a daily basis. I’ll admit our whole team still gets a thrill from seeing a new ALUMRISER sign up. I hope you do, too.

- Aassia Haq, President and CEO, ALUMRISE Inc

When ALUMRISE was founded more than two years ago, we could have not imagined the day we announced the launch of our full application to the marketplace, would coincide with the day that millions across the U.S. would vote in a highly charged, mixed atmosphere of great hope, great uncertainty and great pressure.
 
Do you, too, believe there are big changes brewing in how each of us will work and live?
 
As today’s U.S. election comes and goes, the real truth is that no matter which candidate you selected or supported, you should also consider a new vote - a vote for yourself. 
 
Consider standing up with us for your earned rights: to be a productive contributor, hooked in and hooked up to opportunity, income and influence - whatever your circumstance, location, choices, or work life stage and whatever the macro shifts of the global economy.
 
Together, we can re-enfranchise millions into the workforce, enabling a new source of productivity and growth for the global economy. The person dubbed an ALUMRISER is someone with real skills to offer, and their alum-sourcing is as valid a business/buyer strategy & solution today as off-shoring or downsizing. 
 
Our joining members, both buyers and ALUMRISERS, will help shape the path of how we work and live. You’ll be hearing more about ALUMRISE’s exciting vision for how to do that on our blog, and via the introduction of new features within our marketplace. 
 
If you are not an ALUMRISER today, tomorrow you might be. (With a shout out to those hunting for new opportunities on the streets of New York, or other towns and cities around the country and the world). So might your parents, children, spouse or partner, relatives or friends. Each of us can reach out and touch an ALUMRISER.
 
When you get out to vote - please also remember to vote for yourself.
 
It’s time to sign up.
 
Posted Nov 4, 2008 - By ALUMRISE Team