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Day: April 9, 2025

Career transition without spend

Don’t give up your paid working hours to join SkilledUp Life team I just interviewed a Brit for a leadership role at https://skilledup.life – to my surprise, she was looking to compromise paid hours to join us as a Volunteer. No one needs to do this. SkilledUp Life Volunteer Term is designed to be an add on to daily life. It should not be a replacement. Think of us as – instead of watching TV and relaxing in the evening, spend 13 weeks with us. You can gain amazing experience and skills in a truly international remote team. This might…

Attrition rate drops to 58.93%

The attrition rate at the SkilledUp Life team has reduced to 58.93% which is good. However, this is artificially improved due to the very low recruitment velocity experienced at present. So we should not congratulate ourselves. It’s my belief this could be reduced to 40%. This should be the key focus of the Deputy Head of HR we are currently recruiting.

Delivering Tech Entrepreneur perspective to AccelerateMe Cohort in Manchester

Enjoyed delivering a session on tech entrepreneurship to Accelerate ME cohort today.Had a chat with Techcelerate Tech Founder member and SkilledUp Life tech startup customer Robertas Kareckas.Good to meet Ian Whilby, John Whalley and Layl Bteich. Thanks Jasper Lee for inviting me.Slides are accessible from:– Jaunt https://lnkd.in/gaw4CMk7– edocr.com https://lnkd.in/gi-dVznmWhilst I continue to fail to win Raymond Zheng, it was good to get an update on his tech startup as well as his career.

Network effect

Chris Yeh of Blitzscaling recently wrote about the network effect https://www.blitzscalingvc.com/post/blitzscaling-network-effects Below is my response to his recent post on Linkedin. Chris Yeh I feel you have explained this much better than NFX has in the past. At https://skilleup.life I can’t wait to go live with Version 2 to fully leverage the network effect.In my experience with 56,000 volunteers, network effect needs to be constantly reviewed.Let me explain. When I started, I thought we would get more from the U.K. my home country. I didn’t know a single Nigerian. Today 42% are identified as from Nigeria. And this number would…