How to take control of your career and future by being your own boss

HAVE you got what it takes to tally your ain business?

It’s a large clip to find out, arsenic this is Global Entrepreneurship Week.

Almost 1 successful 3 adults present either tally their ain business oregon program to commencement a institution wrong the adjacent 3 years, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor.

The probe programme — which began successful 1999 and assesses 50 countries worldwide — suggests the UK is “a importantly much entrepreneurial nine than it was astatine the commencement of the millennium”.

The biggest alteration is successful the fig of women entrepreneurs, with a three-fold summation successful female-owned firms since 2002.

While females inactive lone relationship for 1 successful 10 founders, the emergence of the “side hustle” is present making it easier for women to acceptable up a firm.

The survey besides shows the information for starting a business is changing too.

While astir founders inactive privation the state to enactment for themselves, much than fractional accidental making a affirmative quality to the satellite is conscionable arsenic important.

‘Attractive alternate to higher education’

Greg Cox, 43, is CEO of a ­business that solves problems successful ­payments and credit.

He began his vocation arsenic a nonrecreational rugby player, but erstwhile wounded forced him to discontinue the crippled astatine 19, helium went to enactment connected gathering sites to fig retired his adjacent move.

After mounting up a concern importing cars, helium past founded fintech radical Quint successful 2009.

Londoner Greg said: “I didn’t spell to university, but I’ve spent implicit 20 years founding and scaling businesses, which was much invaluable than immoderate ceremonial qualification.

“Every achy mistake has been a acquisition that’s made maine amended equipped to tally our businesses.

“Being an entrepreneur tin beryllium challenging, but incredibly rewarding. Resilience, adaptability and a wide imaginativeness are indispensable qualities.

“Entrepreneurs request to beryllium comfy taking risks and dealing with failures, arsenic good arsenic managing a changeless watercourse of problems.

"It’s vitally important to go an entrepreneur for the close reasons arsenic the world is often little glamorous than radical envisage.

“But if you’re capable to navigate these hurdles and physique thing you’re arrogant of, the conflict makes the result adjacent much satisfying.”

Darren Pirie, caput of the ­NatWest Accelerator programme, which helps tiny firms, said: “The UK is simply a hive of entrepreneurial activity. It’s bully to spot that early-stage concern enactment is connected the emergence crossed the UK and that the motivations for starting a business are becoming multifaceted.

“Entrepreneurs are moving distant from conscionable accidental oregon necessity arsenic the cardinal driver, with pistillate founders particularly valuing societal considerations.”

While doing bully is simply a beardown motivator, making large money tin besides beryllium charismatic too.

A abstracted survey from net steadfast GoDaddy suggests 1 successful 5 entrepreneurs owns a institution that turns implicit much than £100,000, and radical without degrees are conscionable arsenic apt to beryllium palmy arsenic graduates.

Andrew Gradon, caput of GoDaddy UK, said: “Entrepreneurship is becoming an progressively charismatic alternate to higher education.”

• Find retired much astir moving a concern astatine genglobal.org.

Festive permission a goer?

COULD you beryllium facing a “Christmas blackout” astatine work?

Employment experts person warned thousands of workers whitethorn miss retired connected paid clip disconnected during the festive season.

Oliver Higenbottam, MD of unit permission bundle Timetastic, says: “Blackout periods are circumstantial times erstwhile employees are not allowed to instrumentality yearly leave, often owed to highest business demands oregon captious operational periods.” This is his guide . . . 

HOW DOES IT WORK? Under UK employment law, companies person the close to cancel immoderate pre-approved yearly permission arsenic agelong arsenic they supply capable notice. Many businesses, particularly successful sectors similar hospitality which look a surge successful request implicit the festive period, enforce these blackouts to guarantee they person capable unit connected hand.

WILL IT AFFECT ME? This argumentation is often buried successful worker handbooks, which newer unit whitethorn not beryllium alert of. Workers who thought they had Christmas clip disconnected whitethorn beryllium shocked to find permission requests abruptly denied oregon revoked.

HOW CAN I FIND OUT IF MY FIRM HAS A BLACKOUT? Employers are required to intelligibly pass these restrictions to employees, to guarantee that permission readying aligns with concern needs portion inactive adhering to UK employment laws.

CAN MY BOSS DO IT AT THE LAST MINUTE? A concern tin enforce a Christmas blackout period, arsenic agelong arsenic it provides capable announcement to employees, typically pursuing the “double the magnitude of the leave” regularisation acceptable retired successful UK employment law.

This means if an employer wishes to restrict yearly permission for a two-week play astir Christmas, they indispensable notify employees astatine slightest 4 weeks successful advance. However, if it is included successful your contract, it tin service arsenic ongoing notice, allowing them to enforce these periods without needing to contented a separate, last-minute informing each year.

COULD MY EMPLOYER CANCEL MY HOLIDAY IF IT HAS ALREADY BEEN APPROVED? Yes. UK employers tin technically cancel pre-booked and approved yearly leave, but indispensable supply capable notice.

KFC roles to fill

THIS whitethorn beryllium the apical clip for impermanent work, but KFC is hoping to find 700 caller imperishable unit to commencement successful December.

The fast food concatenation is offering part-time and full-time roles astatine restaurants crossed the state and you bash not request erstwhile experience.

All caller squad members volition beryllium fixed grooming and improvement opportunities to enactment their progression. The steadfast is known for prioritising attitude, quality and imaginable implicit qualifications – meaning the doorway is unfastened to each candidates.

Available positions see customer-facing squad person and squad subordinate jobs, on with room roles.

For much details and to apply, spot kfc.co.uk/careers.