Getting Started - Part 2: Get Mentally Prepared
The trouble with freelancing is that it involves a lot of organisation.
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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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Difficult Freelance Situations And How to Handle Them
Being a freelancer can seem like a better career than having a full-time graduate job.
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How to Become a Freelance Photographer
Being a freelance photographer is a dream job for many students and graduates.
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Graduate Job vs. Freelancing: The Pros and Cons
With the growth of social media, there has never been a better time to get into freelancing.
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How to Survive an Internship
Internship - a time of training where one's free time is exchanged in the hope of attaining valuable experience.
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A Guest post by Christian Arno founder of global translation company Lingo24. It’s a tough market out there – finding work as a student or graduate has never been harder, with less jobs available and more competition for the few vacancies.
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