The Guardian Student Media Awards 2012 entry deadlines are approaching
And FreelanceStudents are proud to be helping promote it! However limited your resources, our experienced judging panel will recognise the kind of imagination and energy that will drive a successful career in media.
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How To Deal With Rejection
One of the greatest skills you’ll learn as a student freelancer is dealing with rejection.
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Getting Started - Part 2: Get Mentally Prepared
The trouble with freelancing is that it involves a lot of organisation.
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Invoicing - Get Paid The Right Way
Image by Bruce Tuten Ok, so you have decided to become a Freelance Student.
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Work/University Balance: Get It Right
Being a student, you should by now have worked out the study/party balance.
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Getting Started – Part 1: The Practicalities
Ok, so you need more money – living on Supernoodles and plain pasta is not conducive to good studying.
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The Enemy Of The Freelance Student: Procrastination
You've heard the phrase ‘time is money.’ But what does it mean? Well, there are 86, 400 seconds in a day.
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Freelance Students: Top Five Tips To Become A Freelance Writer
Need a little more dough but can’t face getting a part time job? Here’s your answer: if you can write, all you need to do is log in and tap, tap, tappety-tap - you’ll make some easy, extra p’s. Freelance writing really is easy if you know what you’re doing. Putting aside the entire standard (read: boring) freelancing need-to-knows (accounting, time management and all that jazz), here’s the knowledge (well, the bare bones at least) to get you started as a student freelance writer. 1) You've Got To Be Good If you want to be a Freelance Student making money from writing, the absolute truth is you have to be a good writer.
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What Does Crowdsourcing Mean to Freelance Students?
This word has been going around since 2006 - you may have seen it being used on social networking sites - but if you are thinking, ‘what the heck is crowdsourcing?’ Don't get lost the crowd, you need to know what crowdsourcing means to you as a freelance student. At Freelance Students, we want you be ahead of the game (well, that’s what we’re here for), so here’s our rough guide to crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing Defined... You can get a million and one definitions online, go find them if you want, but here’s mine: What? Crowdsourcing, simply, is the chopping up of a whole job, usually completed by one person, and using a number of freelancers (the crowd) to do the separate components i.e.
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The 5 Common Personality Types of Interns
Every internship cycle encounters a bulk of candidates who commonly fall into one of five personalities.
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