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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.

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So, it’s that special time of year again when some of you are about to embark on - to apply an overused cliché – the best years of your life.

In a centuries-old tradition, you will be expected to do little more than drink and be merry. Some of you will be so caught up in your new hedonistic lifestyle that you may forget what you’re even supposed to be studying.

Freshers’ Week is an exciting time with endless opportunities to meet new people and try new things. But for some it will be daunting – the thought of being homesick and pants-messing nerves will outweigh the prospect of having fun.

As someone who’s survived the experience, take the following nuggets of knowledge along with you: Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve recently set-up a FreelanceStudents twitter account! Twitter obviously needs no introduction, and love it or loathe it, it’s hot property right now with many popular celebrities tweeting. We’re not going into an article about Twitter here, as this is just a quick announcement. However, we will, in the future, write articles on how students can benefit from utilising Twitter.

By using Twitter we hope to better connect with our readership and users, and foster a community amongst freelancing students. We will also be looking to tap into the minds of our readers and seek their advice and opinions; we would like to think we know it all, but honestly, we don’t.

Finally, we’re no pros at this Twitter game and admittedly some of the bird-style lingo has us confused, but we’re willing to learn. So, if you got any advice for us, or your fellow students, on how to roll in the Twitterhood (does that work?), then please leave us a comment or two below… we would appreciate it! You can find us on Twitter as @frlstudents. Feel free to share your twitter contact details too.

Just a quick announcement - we recently received a cool independent review from the good people over at KillerStartups.com. Click here to read the full review. KillerStartups reviews up-and-coming internet start-ups. They see themselves as a user driven internet community, and this is evident in that members can vote, comment, contact the start-ups reviewed, share their opinion if they think that start-up will go IPO, survive, etc.

We’ve worked extremely hard to put this project together, so it’s nice to receive such a favourable review and to be seen as a potential “killer”. But (there’s always a “but”), this is only the beginning, so we’re not going to down our tools and bask in any glory. We know we can improve and we’re going to do so. And we want your input to help us get better, so if you have any feedback then please contact us here.

A quick word on the voting. We would appreciate it if you could support us by pressing the vote button next to our name on KillerStartups.com (make sure you don’t accidentally vote for the others!) on this specific page: http://www.killerstartups.com/top/. A big thanks to all those that have already voted! You’ve very kindly kept us in the Top 4 for this month.