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Software freelancers, how did you land your 1st, 2nd, and Nth jobs?
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Re: Software freelancers, how did you land your 1st, 2nd, and Nth jobs?
#2Contracted with former employers. Word of mouth.
Re: Software freelancers, how did you land your 1st, 2nd, and Nth jobs?
#3When I moved back from Germany to my country I continued working for my employee charging them hourly rate. I didn't considered myself a freelancer then, but after I quit that company 2 years later I continued with B2B for companies outside of my county.
Now I try to find freelance jobs using Linkedin mainly.
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#4Contracted with former employers. Word of mouth.
Who you know is king. Networking and showing up to meetups is the best way to get a job in this industry.
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#5Get linkedin sales navigator
Re: Software freelancers, how did you land your 1st, 2nd, and Nth jobs?
#6Contracted with former employers. Word of mouth.
Agreed, that is how I did it.
My previous employer at that time was a startup with about 100 people. Unfortunately the startup imploded (that was why I left) so I suddenly know about 100 people who were all working at different companies, mostly startups who needed to ramp up quickly. Working at some of those startups I got to know other people who liked my work, who eventually left for other companies, etc. (Admittedly "work for a startup which implodes" probably isn't reproducible advice.)
Re: Software freelancers, how did you land your 1st, 2nd, and Nth jobs?
#7Contacted a few brokers and had a 6 month assignment within a week. They took 10% of all my invoicing
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#8Contacted a few brokers and had a 6 month assignment within a week. They took 10% of all my invoicing
Where and how did you find these brokers?
Re: Software freelancers, how did you land your 1st, 2nd, and Nth jobs?
#9Contacted a few brokers and had a 6 month assignment within a week. They took 10% of all my invoicing
Where and how did you find these brokers?
In other countries they'd just be called recruiting agencies (they can do either permanent or contract jobs).
He's referring to contracting, where you work for one client at a time, almost identical to like an employee would but for the duration limit (and likely a company in between you and them to solidly the facade).
In contrast to what most people would call freelance, where you work for multiple clients at the same time, i.e. a dev agency of one.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where and how did you find these brokers?
In other countries they'd just be called recruiting agencies (they can do either permanent or contract jobs). He's referring to contracting, where you work for one client at a time, almost identical to like an employee would but for the duration limit (and likely a company in between you and them to solidly the facade). In contrast to what most people would call freelance, where you work for multiple clients at the s…
Yeah, sorry. I got contractor and freelancer mixed up. It doesn't help that in Sweden freelancer/contractor/consultant are used interchangably for someone who invoices for their time instead of getting a salary.
The contracting agencies don't do any permanent position, they only do medium-to-long term contracts (3-24 months). The biggest is Northern Europe is probably https://www.verama.com/ (ex E-Work)