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If you have been looking for a way to make more money and to be your own boss while doing it, you may want to look into getting more jobs through freelance work. With freelance work, you are still going to be working for others, but you are not under them. They pay you for a particular job and you complete it within the agreed upon time frame. While there may be restrictions as to how long the project can take, you will be able to have a lot of freedom as to when you work.
Many careers do not offer such flexibility. When you work as a freelancer, you will find that there is simply not much holding you back from having the career that you want to have. You will find that there are pretty much no careers out there that can compare to freelance work. Most importantly, many people find that since they do not have a boss telling them what to do or a strict schedule that they have to abide by that they end up doing better at their work. They end up getting more done as they generally end up liking the work so much more.
If you want to make sure that you get more jobs that you want, you are going to want to make sure that you are presenting yourself in the right manner. This means you are going to have to put together a resume or a portfolio, which will show that
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you have what it takes for the job. Even as a freelancer, you are going to have competition so it is important to make sure that you are always staying ahead of the competition.
With a resume, it is important to make sure that you are expressing your abilities as well as possible. The resume should not just be a simple list of your job history. This is what will sell you to the clients you want to work for. If you feel that you are unable to put together the perfect resume, you might want to seek help from a professional resume writing service. Sure, there is a small fee for this type of service, but you simply want to consider it an investment, as it is a sure fire way to make sure that you get more jobs of quality.
As for a portfolio, you will want to make sure that you are displaying photos of some of your best work, whether you are a freelance writer, photographer or contractor. The portfolio will allow clients to flip through examples of your previous work to decide whether or not you can be trusted with the job that they have. Some people will make several copies of their portfolios so that they can leave some with people. This is something that could add up cost wise, but it would be a nice idea if you can pull it off. Unlike other careers, as a freelancer, you really have to work on having a high opinion of yourself and your work at all times. You have to have that confidence. If you do not have it, someone else will and that will be the person that gets more jobs. to help with this, you might want to work on expanding your knowledge in the line of work that you do. This could mean reading some more books, getting a higher degree or taking a few side courses for a simple refresher. Doing such will show potential clients that you have fresh and new knowledge, unlike the possibly outdated knowledge that everyone else has.
As you can clearly see, there are a lot of benefits to working as a freelancer. You will have a lot of freedom and the sky is really the limit when it comes to the amount of money that you could be making. The thing is though, unlike other careers, this is a career path that will only give you what you put into it. You are in complete charge of the success or the failure of your career. Make sure that you are making all of the right decisions and you will get more jobs before you know it.
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What do I put under Work History if I have no work experience?
Hi, I am a freshman attending a private 4-year university. I am trying to complete a resume but there is a big portion on Work History and I have never had a part-time job before. I don't intend to leave that section blank if I don't have to, because that would not look for me obviously. Is it alright to put community services or volunteer work. What would be the wise thing to put there?
Delete that section entirely, that way it is not blank.
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The top three ways to get your family history started – No. 3: A timeline chronology
A timeline chronology has two components: 1) the date or date range and 2) the events associated with the date or date range.
Your timeline chronology should match the period covered by your family history. It may be a family from birth to death of the mother and father. Or a family from marriage to death. Or a family through a certain time period. Or two or three generations from birth to death. Or a family from mother and father to the birth of youngest child. You get the idea.
It is usually best to keep your timeline chronology simple. To fit the blog approach, make the date the headline. Then list the event or events of that date under the headline. You can use bullet points available in your blogging platform for the events listing.
Listing the date on the left and the events on the right side of a page may seem desirable, but this approach means you have to learn additional technology to present a left and right side of your timeline chronology in a blog. You may know how to make a “table” in Microsoft Word, but it may not copy well to a blog. You probably should not tackle this additional challenge if you are a beginner. If you are convinced that you must have a left-right timeline, send me an email (see website at end of this article) and I will try to help you or give you some alternatives, like making a timeline chronology as a PDF so that people can both see it online and download it.
You can, of course, include as many events as you wish. However, usually you will find that 1) you want your listed events to each be about the same level of importance which limits the number of events and 2) if you list too many events, your timeline becomes more than a summary overview of your family history. Don’t worry about complete sentences when listing events. What you want is an overview of the important dates and events – in addition to helping your readers, your timeline will help you and your collaborators get organized. Think of it as the first thing your readers will review. If you like, you can go back later and link events in your timeline to longer narratives in your completed family history, although the Categories established in your blog should be your primary navigation links.
Enlist the aid of your older family members – they will remember additional events and add their own point of view, thus improving the timeline. Explain that your overview timeline includes only dates and events identified under each date.
A checklist of possible events to include in your timeline chronology will be helpful to you:
- Births, marriage, deaths, graduations
- First job
- Significant occupational change
- A business or land purchase
- Move to a new location or a new city
- Build a new house
- A special vacation or family reunion
- A significant achievement
- A special holiday or trip
- Special war-related events
- An accident or injury
- An influential community event
- A societal or cultural event
© Copyright January, 2009 by Dale Garden
About the Author
Wrote and published extensive online ancestral family history, then began to help others do their own online family histories.
Formerly a corporate manager and management/business consultant now retired.
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