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Resources for freelancers: are free resume reviews useful?

Many freelancers (like me) choose one or more job search boards to supplement out efforts to find gigs, contracts, and potential permanent...
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Resources for freelancers: the Freelancer's Union

Despite having over 100,000 members in 2009, a lot of people don’t seem to know much about the free-to-join Freelancer’s Union. Why...
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Resources for Freelancers: freelance workflow tools

Managing your freelance work can take as much or more time than actually doing it. A key to freelance success is minimizing the non-billable and...
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Networking for Freelancers: basic components

Networking is a big part of freelancing. Without is, you risk missing work opportunities through your agencies and freelance clients you pitch. Why...
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QuickTips for Freelancers: Boost your visability with LinkedIn

Career nomads (freelancers/contractors/temps) need all the professional visability they can get in order to shine when work and client...
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Freelance Self Promotion: invest in your own training

In a lean economy, opportunities for on-the-job training, especially for contractors and temps, are often nonexistent. A new contractor can get...
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Resources for Freelancers: competitive rates

On LinkedIn, the Digital Eve digest, and doubtless other career blogs and lists, one question commonly pops up: how do you price your freelance...
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QuickTips for Freelancers: interviewing essentials

The especially fun thing about freelancing and contracting is that you get to interview more often than the average person. Much more, over and...
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Resources for Freelancers: what about healthcare?

One of the scary things about freelancing, contracting, and temping is having to do for yourself when it comes to healthcare. And for man of us,...
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Freelance Resources: useful information sites

I wanted to share a few information-heavy sites that you can use to get current information, networking, and business information from. Now, I...
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