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5 Reasons Why You Should Start a Blog

jameslachno — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:20:37 +0000

As a student, it’s highly likely that you will have come across the 21st century phenomenon that is ‘blogging’. Whether you’ve been trailing your local parliamentary candidate or checking out the latest celebrity gossip, chances are that even a perfunctory afternoon trawl of the world wide web will quickly find you sat in front a [...]

Picturehouse Giveaway: Win a Pair of Cinema Tickets!

TKM — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:33:53 +0000

To celebrate our successful New Year redesign, Picturehouse Cinemas has very kindly offered us 10 pairs of free cinema tickets to give away! A couple of us here in the team are members of the Picturehouse and we regularly visit both their Clapham and Brixton (better known as the Ritzy) cinemas. Picturehouse are a far cry [...]

FreelanceStudents gets a Facelift!

TKM — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:29:05 +0000

In the 7 months we’ve been in operation FreelanceStudents has seen steady growth, with many small (and some large) businesses jumping on board and many students from across the UK signing up. To keep up with this growth, we decided to embark on a redesign of the site. It was a big effort and we’re [...]

FreelanceStudents Voted a 2010 Smarta 100 Winner!

TKM — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:10:43 +0000

We’re very chuffed today as we have been selected as a 2010 Smarta 100 winner! Smarta.com is a popular free online business resource for small business owners. FreelanceStudents was chosen by a judging panel including Deborah Meaden and other leading entrepreneurs such as Bebo Founder Michael Birch as a winner of Smarta.com’s inaugural ‘Smarta 100’. According to [...]

iTunes Gift Card Giveaway

Emma D — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:10:23 +0000

It’s competition time again! And this month we’re giving three lucky students the chance to win a £25 Apple iTunes gift card, and who doesn’t love Apple right? This means you’ll be able to download £25 worth of your favourite hits, podcasts, films and more for free. Oh, and you avoid being hunted by the anti-illegal [...]

How Not To Get a Job!

TKM — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:58:12 +0000

It’s been a while since we’ve updated the blog and this is largely because we’ve been focusing on a redesign for FreelanceStudents. A recent drive to recruit writers for our blog, however, has prompted us out of hibernation to provide some much needed advice to the many students out there who are simply not doing [...]

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 [...]