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Freelancer is the world’s largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace by total number of users and number of projects posted.
21st Century Work
Essential Survival Skills for Everyone, Everywhere whose job can be done online.
13 November 2015Matt O’Kane
VP Operations
Your career is on two levels
Your
CareerStrategic
Establishing a
good career
path
Tactical
Outperforming
in your current
role
Great freelancing skills are great career skills
Communication
Resolving Tricky Problems
Getting Work
Innovative solutions
Managing Expectations
But where are these stars?
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• Delphi • SAS
• Classic VB • Prolog
• Pascal • Foxpro
A good pipeline of work is financial security
Financial
Security
Your quality
of work
Your ability to
sell yourself
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“160 million jobs, or about 11% of the projected 1.46 billion services jobs worldwide, could in theory be carried out remotely, barring any constraints in supply” *
* McKinsey Global Institute, The Emerging Global Labor Market, Part I: The Demand for Offshore Talent in Services.
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“160 million jobs, or about 11% of the projected 1.46 billion services jobs worldwide, could in theory be carried out remotely, barring any constraints in supply” *
* McKinsey Global Institute, The Emerging Global Labor Market, Part I: The Demand for Offshore Talent in Services.
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Continued exceptional marketplace growth (demand)
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Exceptional growth in registered users, and significant acceleration of growth in projects and contests posted
1. Number of user accounts, and projects/contests posted in the Freelancer marketplace as at 30 June 2015. User, project and contest data includes all users and projects from acquired marketplaces. Prior to 2009, all data is from acquired marketplaces.
Total registered users1 Total projects & contests posted1
As at 30 June 2015>16 million
As at 30 June 2015>8 million
Your career is on two levels
Your
CareerStrategic
Establishing a
good career
path
Tactical
Outperforming
in your current
role
Joining freelancer is only the first step
Client
ManagingPromoting
Finding
Opportunities
Joining
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There are more Freelancers than EmployersThis data is commercial, so the true numbers are not shown here.
Freelancers
EmployersBoth
Four Broad Markets to Think About – Non-exhaustive
Small biz in the
developing world
Start up Mogul
Small biz in the
developed world
Project Management
Some
market
ideas
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Top 9 Demand Skills for Philippine Freelancers on freelancer.comYou can edit this subtitle
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Graphic Design2
Data Entry3
PHP4
Photoshop5
Website Design6
Articles7
Logo Design8
Excel9
Starting a Project Well
• Discuss Project Details especially delivery date
• Only accept the project after you have all the information
• Request a pending milestone
The Insider Tips on Keeping Projects on Track
Don’t wait to be asked for status
Communicate your work hours
What file formats?.
Always Communicate
Careful on promises
Clear Requirements
Employer Selection and Payment
• Check the employer’s
Ratings
• Pending Milestones
• Get that feedback
• Politely decline work that
you can’t commit to.
Great freelancing skills are great career skills
Communication
Resolving Tricky Problems
Getting Work
Innovative solutions
Managing Expectations