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Freelance ‘Survival Guide’

Essential aspects of sustaining a freelance career

Talent in your chosen field is not enough to guarantee freelance success in the long-term. In addition, freelances need to take a number of important considerations into account, from marketing their work to negotiating the best payment deals, to ensure work continuity and create opportunities.

This one-day course covers the essential aspects that will help freelances establish a successful career path:

  • Establishing work continuity
  • Building successful networks
  • Finding and pitching your work to potential employers
  • Agreeing contract terms
  • Negotiating deals at the right rates
  • Making sure clients pay
  • Planning, organisation and time-management
  • Finding out about finance and tax
  • Adapting/updating skills in line with trends/changing skills demand
  • Self-motivation
Who should attend
The course will provide a useful overview to both those who are new to freelancing and those established freelances who want to ensure that they are covering all bases to maximise their freelance potential.

Qualifications
A desire to maintain or improve freelance productivity. No formal qualifications are required.

Expected learning outcomes
  • · An understanding of what freelances need to do to survive
  • Acquisition of a level of awareness of the components that go into successful freelancing.

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Date added: 2002-11-28
Last modified: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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