This document provides information about freelancing and why someone should consider becoming a freelancer. It discusses what freelancers provide, such as flexible hiring and location possibilities. Several reasons for becoming a freelancer are outlined, including the ability to find work during an economic downturn, gaining experience as a student, pursuing a digital nomadic lifestyle, making more money, and having interesting flexible work. The document recommends completing a profile on Upwork to start finding freelance jobs and provides a homework assignment to get started.

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Freelance Workshop
your way to hunt your first job

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Homework

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Environment

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Review
• What's is Freelancing?
• Who’s The freelancer?
• Statistics
• What You will gain from this course
• Freelancing Websites
• Focus
• Groups & Database

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What’s the Freelancers
provide?
Flexible hiring
Skills, experience as needed
Performance guaranteed
Easy to fire if work is subpar
No employment benefits
Medical, retirement, taxes, etc.

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What’s the Freelancers
provide?
High motivation
This is their business…
Ease of hiring
Marketplaces allow quick, inexpensive hire
Location possibilities
Freelancers come from everywhere

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Why you should consider
Freelancing?
A deteriorating
economy
• Can't find a job?
• Nervous about the
future?
• Local conditions
unfavorable?

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Why you should consider
Freelancing?
Students
• No resume
experience?
• Want to practice
your learning?
• Want to learn
more than before?

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Why you should consider
Freelancing?
Digital Nomads
• Prefer location
independence?
• Interested in
seeing the world?
• Want to get out of
the cubicle?

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Why you should consider
Freelancing?
Career change
• Bored by your
responsibilities?
• In a dead-end job
or industry?
• Dislike your
manager or
company?

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Why you should consider
Freelancing?
Experience /
Qualifications
• Resume not good
enough?
• Going for a new
job?
• Want to
demonstrate your
qualifications?

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Why you should consider
Freelancing?
Money
• Want to earn
based on
performance?
• Confident enough
to take risks?
• Dissatisfied with
your current
income?

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Why you should consider
Freelancing?
Move to New
Country
• Need a work visa
to move?
• Want to
disassociate work
from where you
live?

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Why you should consider
Freelancing?
Getting a Full-
Time Job
• Want to prove
your competency?
• Want to sample
before you
commit?

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Why you should consider
Freelancing?
Interesting Work /
Flexibility
• Want to choose your
jobs?
• Want to choose who
you work with?
• Want to ability to
frequently change
work?

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Why you should consider
Freelancing?
Slow Business
Launch
• Want to start a
business without
funding?
• Want to expand a
business on cash flow?
• Want to test a concept
before committing?

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Video
What should you look for in a freelancer on Upwork

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UpWorK Demo

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HomeWork
• Complete Your Profile and start hunting
your first Job
• Watching the How to Get Started as a
Client on Upwork playlist

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Thank You =)