Monday, June 8, 2009

How to put freelance jobs on resume

How to put freelance jobs on resume?
I've done freelance jobs before and I think I should put it on my resume, since the only "real job" I've had was working for McDonalds. Anyway, I did some web graphics and web site layouts (coding and graphics) for individual people. I never worked for a company, it was just people advertising my work by word of mouth locally. How do I go about putting this on my resume? How would I word it? Would it go under "work experience" or "accomplishments"? Thanks in advance
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Using the title "Web Graphics Design, Freelance" just like a paid job in work experience, describe the work and say that samples are available upon request. You don't need to mention that you weren't paid for the work, that's between you and the tax department. You can mention that you got the work by word of mouth, it speaks of your reputation.
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Hello hurrdurr : Think a little bigger. Your experience may be better suited in a CV (curriculum Vitae). These outline a breadth of experience and serve to show what you have done as opposed to a resume that is good for outlining if you are experienced and qualified for a specific job. In either case, be sure to be thorough and to enumerate how what you did gave value to your client/boss of the assignment/job you were a part of completing. Bear in mind McDonald's and your clients each had something to gain by selecting you as opposed to your constituents. McDonalds is a name but you also have a name and reputation. McDonald's established themselves selling hamburgers, hurrdurr is establishing him/herself to be "a resourceful web-design and graphics design consultant" "with a reputation of excellent work, client relations and continuous improvement". Your name, as opposed to McDonald's', is what really matters so be sure to include a few of your happy clients as references so whoever is hiring you can hear how great you were with them and get that much more reason to bring you on to their team. I have linked to a great video showing how to do this below. It is called "Developing Your Value Proposition" and answers in more detail what steps to take when writing your value proposition (or resume - whatever you call it), so that the reader will understand what benefit they will have by hiring you in terms of resourcefulness, savings, time, money, etc. "Developing Your Value Proposition" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brCA4ipgPak If you have more questions please visit http://www.oceanresume.com/index.php/blog . If you are looking for a destination to search for jobs, please acquaint yourself with our jobs board: http://www.oceanresume.com/index.php/job-board. Thank you, Ocean Resume

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