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10 Job Search Tips for 2010

TKM — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:03:39 +0000

Hello 2010! 2009 was a difficult time in the job market for students and graduates alike, and unless you spent most of your time inebriated with a traffic cone on your head, this is an inescapable fact. But it’s a new year, and for those of you that remain unemployed, then now is a good [...]

FreelanceStudents: What Would You Like to See?

TKM — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:02:42 +0000

Firstly, we would like to wish our many readers a very merry Christmas! Believe it or not FreelanceStudents is almost 6 months old. Back in July 2009, we launched with a vague business plan that would have been savaged by the Dragons. Since then we’ve been featured in the Metro, startups.co.uk, killerstartups.com, and we’re in [...]

Careers Corner Interview: Steph Pomphrey, Selling Creativity

Emma D — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:50:38 +0000

As promised in The Secrets of Success: Introducing Careers Corner post, we would like to introduce the very first of our featured monthly interviews with freelancers and professionals who haven taken time out of their busy schedules to talk to us about their careers. First up is Steph, 37, who works for the hot creative [...]

NEWS: Small businesses should tap into the freelance talent pool to survive the downturn

TKM — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:41:36 +0000

Yesterday an interesting article dropped into our inbox – “Make use of freelancers, firms told” – naturally, most mails don’t pass our instant-delete-suspect-email process, but due to the title of the mail, we read on. And we’re very glad that we did, as the article substantiates what we’re trying to achieve here at FreelanceStudents. In brief [...]

The Secrets of Success: Introducing Careers Corner

TKM — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:35:43 +0000

Throughout your life you’ll be incessantly asked about your career; “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, “Where do you see yourself in 5 years?”, and so on, and so on. The interrogation starts at a young age and follows (and in some cases haunts) you until you’re old enough to retire. [...]

Bragster.com: Victory is Sweet

TKM — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:08:05 +0000

A few weeks ago we stumbled across a new-ish social media website called Bragster.com. Not another one, I hear you cry. Yep, but this isn’t just about endless twittering or photo-prying, this is much more fun. Described as “Jackass meets Facebook” Bragster is all about dares, where users challenge each other to do absurd stunts, [...]

8 Essential Free Web Tools for Students

TKM — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:27:11 +0000

When I was at university, there simply were no useful Web tools (except email). We did things the hard way; we backed up work on wholly unreliable CDs, we walked to libraries and thumbed through reams of dust coated books to do our research, and we wrote in stone. Ok, we didn’t do the stone [...]

NEW! Student Forums

TKM — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:55:58 +0000

If you’ve been keeping an eye on our website, you may have noticed that we’ve introduced a new Forums area! This is the first of a number of initiatives we have coming out of our creative lab in order to make FreelanceStudents an engaging and useful website for the student community. So, go right ahead [...]

Make Money from Your Hobbies Online

TKM — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:29:09 +0000

Almost every student needs to earn a little extra money whilst at university to prop up their “beer” fund. In the past, some have busked, many have gambled, and a brave few have endured medical trials (er… thanks, but looking like the elephant man is so last century!). Not ideal options. However, if you’ve got [...]

The Top 5 Websites for Graduate Jobs

TKM — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:55:41 +0000

A quick search in Google for “graduate jobs” produces a list of 28,200,200 results. The Internet is a jungle. Where do you start? Usually the non-scientific process of whittling down the many options presented by Google involves avoiding any link that looks remotely freaky. Examples of web addresses that often, and sometimes illogically, set off the [...]