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Hello 2010! 2009 was a difficult time in the job market for students and graduates alike, and unless you spent most of your time inebriated with a traffic cone on your head, this is an inescapable fact. But it’s a new year, and for those of you that remain unemployed, then now is a good time to take a brief pause and re-focus your job hunting strategy. So, allow us to disrupt your sales shopping with 10 tips to help you tackle the employment market in 2010.
So if you have a spare minute, here are a few questions you might have some thoughts on:
And of course any other feedback is welcome. You can either contact us via our feedback form here or leave a comment below. We’re committed to making FreelanceStudents the best it can be! 
As promised in The Secrets of Success: Introducing Careers Corner post, we would like to introduce the very first of our featured monthly interviews with freelancers and professionals who haven taken time out of their busy schedules to talk to us about their careers. First up is Steph, 37, who works for the hot creative agency – The Church Of London, who publish the Little White Lies and HUCK magazines. As Ad Director, he is responsible for most of the revenue and has been involved since the beginning. He has been in publishing for 6 years and sales for 8 years. Interestingly, Steph used to help run a private nudist beach near St. Tropez!
In brief the article discusses comments made by Sir Tom Farmer, the founder of Kwik-Fit and Michael van Swaaij, the former managing director of eBay Europe and chairman of Skype. Sir Tom outlines why he believes over the next 10 years companies will “trim the fat” and look to outsource non-core activities. Translated, this means Sir Tom sees companies increasingly looking to use freelance and short-term staff. Michael van Swaaij backs up Sir Tom’s comments by stating that the traditional model of employer/employee is clearly changing. You could say we were ahead of the game! The full article can be found at http://www.mybusiness.co.uk/YaG1H5xo6VWuDg.html. 
Throughout your life you’ll be incessantly asked about your career; “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, “Where do you see yourself in 5 years?”, and so on, and so on. The interrogation starts at a young age and follows (and in some cases haunts) you until you’re old enough to retire. A lucky few already know the path they’ll follow and their career goals are clearly defined, however, the vast majority of us simply have no idea. Additionally, in our experience, there’s usually a deluge of bog standard advice and meaningless information that can be found on the internet, at your careers service, or from your well-meaning, but slightly outdated, parents. There’s clearly a need for more personal and real information and we believe we have just that. 
A few weeks ago we stumbled across a new-ish social media website called Bragster.com. Not another one, I hear you cry. Yep, but this isn’t just about endless twittering or photo-prying, this is much more fun. Described as “Jackass meets Facebook” Bragster is all about dares, where users challenge each other to do absurd stunts, film themselves, and then “brag” about it. Bragster is a London-based venture that was founded by Bertrand Bodson and Wim Vernaeve. The idea came about to the duo when Wim was working at Morgan Stanley and he got dared by a colleague to go bald before an important client meeting. It never happened, apparently, but Bragster was born. 
When I was at university, there simply were no useful Web tools (except email). We did things the hard way; we backed up work on wholly unreliable CDs, we walked to libraries and thumbed through reams of dust coated books to do our research, and we wrote in stone. Ok, we didn’t do the stone bit, but most tasks were fairly laborious. Not any longer.
The advance of the Web has meant that there are now various free excellent Web applications that can help you get organised, easily maintain back-ups, collaborate with friends, and conduct research. We’ve put together a list of 8 of the best free Web tools available for students. Click to Continue »
Before participating we recommend that you read our “Forum rules” and also the “Forum FAQs”. After you’ve digested those serious matters, why not introduce yourself in the “First time?” forum. We’ve created 11 discussion areas: FreelanceStudentsFirst Time? – Is this your first visit to the forums? Start a new thread and introduce yourself. Terms of Use – Forum rules. Please read these carefully! FS Official Announcements – A thread for official announcements regarding FS. 
Almost every student needs to earn a little extra money whilst at university to prop up their “beer” fund. In the past, some have busked, many have gambled, and a brave few have endured medical trials (er… thanks, but looking like the elephant man is so last century!). Not ideal options. However, if you’ve got a hobby, or a talent, then there are ways of making extra cash online. Making money from a hobby online has become an increasingly attractive option for many students, as you can work from home, you can pursue your interest in your own time, and there’s little or no investment. In fact, all that is needed is access to the internet. And, if you’re seriously skilled, then you could make a regular income. Here are our six suggestions for making money from your hobby. Click to Continue » 
A quick search in Google for “graduate jobs” produces a list of 28,200,200 results. The Internet is a jungle. Where do you start? Usually the non-scientific process of whittling down the many options presented by Google involves avoiding any link that looks remotely freaky. Examples of web addresses that often, and sometimes illogically, set off the panic button include addresses with dashes (e.g. www.weird-address.com), web addresses that end in “.net”, or when you do finally muster up courage to click on a UFL (Unidentified Freaky Link), the dreaded all-black website of death will get you hitting that back button like your life depended on it. There is hope. We’ve compiled a list of our top 5 graduate recruitment job websites (i.e. fulltime graduate roles) for you to safely explore. Be sure to bookmark these websites and keep an eye on those deadlines! |
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Looking for a way to boost your CV? Then here's a good opportunity. FreelanceStudents would like students to get involved and submit articles. You can share your personal experiences with other students from across the UK. So, let's get you started!
Firstly, we would like to wish our many readers a very merry Christmas! Believe it or not FreelanceStudents is almost 6 months old. Back in July 2009, 
Yesterday an interesting article dropped into our inbox – “Make use of freelancers, firms told” – naturally, most mails don’t pass our instant-delete-suspect-email process, but due to the title of the mail, we read on. And we’re very glad that we did, as the article substantiates what we’re trying to 
If you’ve been keeping an eye on our website, you may have noticed that we’ve introduced a new Forums area! This is the first of a number of initiatives we have coming out of our creative lab in order to make FreelanceStudents an engaging and useful website for the student community. So, go right ahead and discuss jobs, student life, freelancing, and, in fact, anything that comes to mind! Don’t be shy.