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Invoicing - Get Paid The Right Way

Girl painting lines with note for payment in childish handwriting
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Ok, so you have decided to become a Freelance Student. You’ve gone out and touted for work, well done! Now it’s time to think about invoicing, and it’s a bit of a head-scratcher. Or it certainly can be if you don’t know how to approach it.

When you commence your freelancing career there are loads of important things to do. Defining your business and finding commissions are what freelancers tend to think about most. What often gets overlooked is invoicing. Invoicing is essential to remind your clients to pay you. Without a fool proof invoicing system in place, you could end up bashing your head against a wall waiting for a client to pay.

We want you to be clear about invoicing, it really couldn’t be simpler, here’s all you need to know about invoicing. Read the rest of this entry »

Website Review: Recip.ly

As students we’re pretty laid back, right? We like things to be made easy for us and the easier the better. So, things like cooking recipes where all the different ingredients have to be bought, who can be bothered? It would be much simpler if, from our favourite armchair, we could view a recipe online and then with a simple click of a button all the ingredients are magically ordered and delivered. Imagine no more… new start up Recip.ly is making this a reality. Read the rest of this entry »

BranchOut - Using Facebook to Find a Job

branchout-logoStudents are great at using Facebook, but often not so great at finding a job. However, with new Facebook job-networking application BranchOut being launched, there may yet be hope for our generation of social-network savvy graduates.

There comes a point in every student or recent graduate’s life where they wish two things: Firstly, that they could stay 21 forever; secondly, that their parents were either extremely rich or extremely well connected. Networking is, for better or worse, an unavoidable reality in the job market. Read the rest of this entry »

Podcasts the Future of Learning

podcasts_girl_listening_v1Podcasts and lectures are as much a part of the 21st century student’s life as beer and beans. Your average week at University might look something like this: attend lectures (4 hours); guffaw away to Karl Pilkington or Chris Moyles via podcast (7-8 hours); eat, sleep, drink (the rest of the time). This may seem like a logical division of your time, but what it you could combine the podcasting with the learning? University lecturer David Hearnshaw didn’t seem to think this was very viable way back in 2006, arguing that “more than words” were needed to ensure a rich learning environment. He may have been right with regards to the nuts and bolts of University lectures, but that doesn’t mean that podcasts can’t be a valuable learning, tuition and self-help resource in other ways. This week we look at how the podcast can help you study. Read the rest of this entry »

How to Use Delicious to Find Jobs

delicious-logoGreetings students and graduates! I hope you are all either enjoying the first few weeks of a fresh year (or first year) at University, or feverishly beavering away in the hunt for internships and graduate jobs. Don’t forget that our student careers blog is here to help, and today I have a particularly tasty treat for you.

I’m sure you are all thoroughly well-versed on the joys of social media, having had myself and my fellow freelancestudents.co.uk bloggers ram the point home since our inception. However, at the risk of you being suffocated by an ever-more complicated array of social media outlets which might help you get a job, this week I’ll be throwing a last one (maybe!) into the mix: Delicious.

Below is a run down of what it is, how it works and what it might be able to do for you. Read the rest of this entry »

How to Use Google Realtime Search to Find Jobs

Google-Realtime-SearchA bit like Gordon Gecko’s greed, our thirst for helping you find student jobs, internships, and work experience never sleeps. This week I’m taking a look at Google’s latest masterstroke: the appropriately titled ‘Google Realtime’. In the spirit of poor old redundant Stig, I’ll be giving it a wee test drive to see how it might help your job prospects. Grateful? Send your cheques to the usual address… Read the rest of this entry »

How to Find a Job on Twitter Part 2

twitter_bird_jobs_students_part_2In How to Find a Job on Twitter Part 1, we gave you the raw materials – tips on setting up an appropriate profile, following people relevant to your chosen profession and engaging with the big wide world (or world wide web, so to speak) through tweeting. This week, we cover the real business end of proceedings. Hopefully you’ll all have been merrily building your Twitter foundations in the intervening period – now it’s time to go in for the kill. Read the rest of this entry »

How to Find a Job on Twitter Part 1

twitter_bird_jobs_studentsFinding a job on Twitter may sound like the 21st century equivalent of looking for labouring contracts in the local bookies – or, better still, the Nag’s Head – but thinking outside the usual jobsites and vacancies columns can pay serious dividends. Nope, Twitter isn’t just a place for slightly unhinged celebrity stalkers to sate their appetite for Lily Allen’s meandering nonsense. Twitter can be a powerful tool for finding student jobs and internships and full-blown, real-life, money-for-milk-actually-going-into-my-bank-account graduate jobs. Read the rest of this entry »

The Top Social Networking Sites for Students

share_button_v1Ah, nostalgia. I remember tipping up to University back in 2005 – all fresh faced, badly dressed, and certainly by no means web savvy. Ofcourse, back then you didn’t need to be; the most complex thing I needed to know how to do was upload my latest preening, doe-eyed Myspace profile picture. Yup, back in those days there was no Twitter, LinkedIn was in its infancy, and (whisper it), Facebook had yet to achieve world domination. It barely seems possible. Anyway, fast forward to the ‘Tennies’ and the world seems a very different place. Social networking is now an unavoidable reality of modern life, so you’d better be prepared to use it to your advantage. The below is a brief outline of what the biggies can do for you. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Browsers Part 2 - Flock: The Social Media Web Browser

flock_imageLast time out, I gave a brief overview of the main players in the world of internet browsing, with some generalised pros and cons for the objective user. This time it gets personal. Here I recommend the browser that works best for me, Flock, and explain why. Using my own extensive experience of using Flock, I’ll also be giving some hints and tips as to how it can help you as you begin to think about job hunting. Of course, there’s no foolproof way of judging the best browser – aside from individual user needs, some work better on older/newer computers, for example – so feel free to wade into the debate yourselves below. Read the rest of this entry »

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