Archive for August, 2009

FreelanceStudents is now on Twitter

twitter_squidgeWe’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.

How to Cope with Job Rejection

deep_in_contemplationWe’ve all been there: “Hi [add your name here], thank you for your application. Unfortunately…” Delete. You don’t care about the rest of the email because you don’t want to know why you “stink”. The natural reaction is to march straight down to the student union and throw back beers whilst declaring that graduate recruitment is “a farce”. But, trust me, there’s no need for such measures.

After I graduated from university, in 2002, it took me over a year to find a decent graduate role. I left university with a swagger; I got a 2.1 from a good institution and I had some decent work experience. So, foolishly, I assumed that I was going to cruise into a big time job. 6 months later, I had accumulated enough rejection letters to wallpaper the Taj Mahal. The swagger had gone. Read the rest of this entry »

FreelanceStudents gets a “Killer” review

logo_killer_png2Just 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.