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How to Find a Job19 Dec

If you are looking for a job, you may not be sure how to go about it.

Whether you are a fresher or an experienced veteran, a college student or an older person, looking for a first-time job or a job change, finding a job can take time and be quite traumatic, unless you are really fortunate. In the modern world there are many newer ways of finding jobs rather than just scouring the newspapers. And yet, old-fashioned methods also work.

The importance of a resume

The resume is the first impression that a prospective employer gets of you. It is important to make a good first impression. Include all the relevant details of your educational qualifications, what you have done with your life, your specialties and your personal details. If these are put forward in an attractive manner, you have a foot in the door.

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How to Find Jobs as a Freelancer16 Apr

Where?

Lots of places. There are placement / employment agencies that require part time or short term project workers that hire freelancers. Find these in your yellow pages, make phone calls and mail them or email them a cover letter and your resume and specify the type of work you are willing to take on, as well as your rates.

The Internet is BOOMING with freelance sites where buyers of all kinds of service, programming and writing, for example, where buyers post bid requests at either closed or open auction and sellers (coders and writers) write bids of proposal and state a price they would charge. Negotiations can go back and forth and if you are good and lucky, work will soon fall your way.

Get used to rejection. One site that this writer uses is www.Rentacoder.com, and the average bid there gets 12.4 offers within 24 hours. If everything were equal, that means the average freelancer would win about 8 % of his or her bids. That’s a LOT of rejection. Some buyers will go for the lowest bid… Read More