Comments on: Do I Need a Specialty? http://organizedassistant.com/2009/04/01/do-i-need-a-specialty/ Virtual Partner to Your Organizing Business Thu, 17 May 2012 18:06:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Janet Barclay http://organizedassistant.com/2009/04/01/do-i-need-a-specialty/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Janet Barclay Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:05:47 +0000 http://organizing-business.com/?p=96#comment-3 Julie, in addition to learning about other specialties, another plus to association membership is that you may get an opportunity to work alongside someone who works in that area and find out if it is something you'd enjoy. Julie, in addition to learning about other specialties, another plus to association membership is that you may get an opportunity to work alongside someone who works in that area and find out if it is something you’d enjoy.

]]> By: Julie Bestry http://organizedassistant.com/2009/04/01/do-i-need-a-specialty/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Julie Bestry Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:11:01 +0000 http://organizing-business.com/?p=96#comment-2 All good points, Janet. In my experience, professional organizers tend to start working in the general fields that best match their prior backgrounds. Corporate singletons tend to gravitate towards business organizing, serial entrepreneurs towards home-based business organizing and busy moms (no matter what their professional background) often feel most suited helping busy, overwhelmed parents. Indeed, it's hard to know at what a new professional organizer might excel, so one tends to stick with what one knows best. However, as you imply, niching allows for the opportunity to hone one's skills in a particular area, to be seen as a sub-specialist and expert whose rates can be commensurate with those specialized skills. One of the great advantages to becoming a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers, Professional Organizers in Canada and the National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization is the opportunity to network and chat with other professional organizers with experience in specialties we not only may not have considered, but may not have known existed. This is one of the reasons why interacting with our colleagues, both formally in industry organizations and informally on social networking sites and sharing comments on blogs like yours, is to get to know one another and share perspectives. So, congrats on the new blog, and thanks for giving us all a great outlet at which we can rub elbows. All good points, Janet. In my experience, professional organizers tend to start working in the general fields that best match their prior backgrounds. Corporate singletons tend to gravitate towards business organizing, serial entrepreneurs towards home-based business organizing and busy moms (no matter what their professional background) often feel most suited helping busy, overwhelmed parents. Indeed, it’s hard to know at what a new professional organizer might excel, so one tends to stick with what one knows best.

However, as you imply, niching allows for the opportunity to hone one’s skills in a particular area, to be seen as a sub-specialist and expert whose rates can be commensurate with those specialized skills.

One of the great advantages to becoming a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers, Professional Organizers in Canada and the National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization is the opportunity to network and chat with other professional organizers with experience in specialties we not only may not have considered, but may not have known existed. This is one of the reasons why interacting with our colleagues, both formally in industry organizations and informally on social networking sites and sharing comments on blogs like yours, is to get to know one another and share perspectives.

So, congrats on the new blog, and thanks for giving us all a great outlet at which we can rub elbows.

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