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21st Century Work

Essential Survival Skills for Everyone, Everywhere whose job can be done online.

13 November 2015Matt O’Kane

VP Operations

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Your career is on two levels

Your

CareerStrategic

Establishing a

good career

path

Tactical

Outperforming

in your current

role

Great freelancing skills are great career skills

Communication

Resolving Tricky Problems

Getting Work

Innovative solutions

Managing Expectations

Tech Skills are

not enough!

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But where are these stars?

• Smalltalk • Cobol

• Delphi • SAS

• Classic VB • Prolog

• Pascal • Foxpro

A good pipeline of work is financial security

Financial

Security

Your quality

of work

Your ability to

sell yourself

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“160 million jobs, or about 11% of the projected 1.46 billion services jobs worldwide, could in theory be carried out remotely, barring any constraints in supply” *

* McKinsey Global Institute, The Emerging Global Labor Market, Part I: The Demand for Offshore Talent in Services.

Why be a freelancer or an employer on

You can work with this sized opportunity

Philippines

Or this sized opportunity

Why be a freelancer or an employer on

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Freelancer.com is changing the global dynamics in the marketplace for people

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“160 million jobs, or about 11% of the projected 1.46 billion services jobs worldwide, could in theory be carried out remotely, barring any constraints in supply” *

* McKinsey Global Institute, The Emerging Global Labor Market, Part I: The Demand for Offshore Talent in Services.

We are changing lives in the developing world by providing opportunity and income.

We help small businesses, startups and entrepreneurs turn that spark of an idea into reality.

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We are changing lives in the developing world by providing opportunity and income.

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Continued exceptional marketplace growth (demand)

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Exceptional growth in registered users, and significant acceleration of growth in projects and contests posted

1. Number of user accounts, and projects/contests posted in the Freelancer marketplace as at 30 June 2015. User, project and contest data includes all users and projects from acquired marketplaces. Prior to 2009, all data is from acquired marketplaces.

Total registered users1 Total projects & contests posted1

As at 30 June 2015>16 million

As at 30 June 2015>8 million

Your career is on two levels

Your

CareerStrategic

Establishing a

good career

path

Tactical

Outperforming

in your current

role

Joining freelancer is only the first step

Client

ManagingPromoting

Finding

Opportunities

Joining

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Freelancers

EmployersBoth

Four Broad Markets to Think About – Non-exhaustive

Small biz in the

developing world

Start up Mogul

Small biz in the

developed world

Project Management

Some

market

ideas

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Top 9 Demand Skills for Philippine Freelancers on freelancer.comYou can edit this subtitle

GoLang1

Graphic Design2

Data Entry3

PHP4

Photoshop5

Website Design6

Articles7

Logo Design8

Excel9

Top 3 tips from PH Employer to PH Freelancer

Tips from freelancers to other freelancers

FF

Tips from employers to other employers

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Starting a Project Well

• Discuss Project Details especially delivery date

• Only accept the project after you have all the information

• Request a pending milestone

The Insider Tips on Keeping Projects on Track

Don’t wait to be asked for status

Communicate your work hours

What file formats?.

Always Communicate

Careful on promises

Clear Requirements

Employer Selection and Payment

• Check the employer’s

Ratings

• Pending Milestones

• Get that feedback

• Politely decline work that

you can’t commit to.

Great freelancing skills are great career skills

Communication

Resolving Tricky Problems

Getting Work

Innovative solutions

Managing Expectations

Matt O’Kane

LinkedIn: Search for “Matt O’Kane Australia”

Twitter: @mattie_o

Freelancer is the world’s largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace by total number of users and number of projects posted.