Freelancing as WFH option
Freelancing is a popular WFH option for some time now. Freelancer photographer, news reporter etc are very common professions for quite a few years now. But nowadays, with the internet era, there are so many sites offering freelancing jobs for variety of professions like virtual assistants / secretaries, document writers, software developers, software testers etc.
These freelancing jobs help employers to find experienced people from anywhere in the globe.
So can anyone take up the freelancing option?
Yes, freelancing option is available for almost all professions. Hence freelancing should be a good option for you if you are looking for a part time job.
How does it work?
First you need to register in a site that provides this freelancing job offers. Some sites require you to pay some small fees for signing up but there are so many popular free options like Elance.com.
Once registered, in some of the sites you can start immediately and in some others you need to update your profile with latest resume / portfolio and then search the available jobs for the one that suits you. Once you find a job that suits you, you can express your interest to take up the job and add more details like your experience, the pay you expect for doing the job etc.
It is important that you build up your reputation to get more jobs. Every time you complete a job, the job poster rates your work and this is visible to other job posters also. So it is important that you get good ratings for all your jobs.
Next steps...
There are n number of freelancing sites available and here's the list of some of the popular sites:
- freelance.com
- freelancer.com
- elance.com
- freelanceswitch.com
- guru.com
- ifreelance.com
- freelancefree.com