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