In the first of our series on effectively relating freelance experience on resumes, we looked at some of the red flags employers see in such experience.
One of the ideas we stressed was that you can get around these red flags.
The way to do this is by assuring the employer that you’ve developed the skills he or she is looking for.
Here, in part two, we take a look at how to do just that. Click Here to Read Article …
If you’re a freelancer thinking of crossing over into the world of traditional employment, or if you straddle both worlds, you have to think about presenting self-employment on your resume.
One might be tempted to take an “it-is-what-it-is” approach, just plopping the experience into your resume.
But because working at home or running a business of any kind is different from being part of an organization, employers have their own particular ways of looking at such work on someone’s resume.
Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll present a series on ways to incorporate your freelance work onto your resume.
Today’s post will focus on some of the potential red flags that employers sometimes perceive. Click Here to Read Article …
One of the greatest things about being a freelancer is you make your own hours.
One of the worst things about being a freelancer is you make your own hours.
If there is one thing I’ve learned over the many years I’ve been working for myself, it’s that you need to find different ways to motivate yourself.
This actually applies to working in an office as well, but I find having meetings and coworkers who count on you tend to act as motivation most days.
It’s built in. It’s unsaid.
As a freelancer, you’re often on your own — in a coffee house or home office — and the people counting on you are far away. Maybe you’ve never even met them in person. Click Here to Read Article …
This is the best introduction I’ve ever written.
It’s surprising and unique.
It’s concise.
It doesn’t re-invent the wheel.
And because I’m telling you that these are the traits of a great intro paragraphs, it sets up the discussion.
I’m now ready to flesh out ways to write a great intro for a blog post or other web article. Click Here to Read Article …
Content creation is one of the hardest skills someone can master.
As a blogger, this skill is essential to the success of your art.
It takes a while before one can confidently say they’ve mastered the skill of content creation from a blogger’s perspective.
Regardless of whether you’ve mastered this skill, there are some tools that make the process easier.
There are some tools you can’t do without —they’re vital to enhancing your blogging experience. Click Here to Read Article …
Being a writer requires time, devotion, passion and skill.
For aspiring writers and those who have just started, becoming the writer you always wanted to be is a big challenge.
There are times when you would end up asking yourself if you can really do this or if you are good enough to write.
This is completely normal.
Even the most prolific writers experience problems like these, and you don’t establish your identity as a writer in one shot. Click Here to Read Article …
As a young or potential entrepreneur, renting out office space seems like a daunting idea right?
It’s a big commitment, especially when there is an alternative.
This is a topic that I encounter all the time.
With a growing number of people working from home nowadays, claiming the cost of rent or their mortgage repayments is becoming a hot topic, with most people thinking they can claim the full amount and that being that.
Unfortunately it’s not as straightforward as that. Click Here to Read Article …
Plenty of people will tell you the hardest part of being a content producer in the digital age is coming up with an original story or angle.
Everything’s been covered already, they say.
But they’re missing the key point: You can have the most original content on the Internet, but if you don’t market your work effectively, no one will read it.
Yes, the trickiest part of writing online is actually getting your voice heard by real people without paying for artificial users. Luckily, the Internet has some great content marketing solutions. Click Here to Read Article …
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