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Seven Easy Steps to a Freelance Life
Being a free agent is exciting, rewarding and gives you carte blanche to choose your own hours and assignments. But standing out from the more than the estimated 10 million independent contractors in the United States can be a challenge.
"Some workers freelance while they look for a traditional full-time job, but most are freelancing because they've made a conscious lifestyle choice," says Ben Jablow, Senior Business Development Director for Sologig.com, a Web site that connects consultants and freelance job seekers with more than 60,000 contract-based projects. "They want to better balance and integrate their life and work and to be able to control what they do, how many hours they work and how much money they make."
Hiring freelance workers is beneficial to employers, too, because it provides more latitude to conduct their operations. Employers can hire based on specific skill sets for individual projects and outsource more operations, ranging from design and marketing to IT. This allows businesses to easily augment or reduce staff levels based on workflow and control costs by dialing up or down payroll and minimizing benefits coverage.
Are you seeking the flexibility and autonomy of freelancing? Jablow offers seven ways to help build your client base and fatten your wallet:
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