Are you curious to find out how innovative and fast developing the world of freelancing has been over the years? Aside from being one of the best meeting places where skilled and qualified people work together, it’s also a place where you find a lot of exciting news about the freelancing world.
However, Freelance Life Magazine has highlighted educative and entertaining news from popular freelance platforms, including; Upwork, Fiverr, Peopleperhour, and more.
Using Enterprise Suite to Revamp the Rules of Work
The famous platform Upwork has recently introduced Enterprise Suite in collaboration with creative industry leaders. I find this new tool amazing as it gives a new customization and automation feature to help develop and support new approaches to get work done. The results of this new tool are unique and enable industries to work as they want with interesting new features such as;
Starting With a Fresh Look
The layout of the Upwork account is improved with bolder colors and more contrast. This will improve the freelance experience as it is more user-friendly.
Better Search Capabilities
This enhancement helps connect with the best fit, making it easier to find the top talent you need and when you need it. Isn’t this interesting?
Getting More Talent Matches.
You can contact stronger talents using more advanced Upwork’s global talent pool, which includes artificial intelligence, professionals with new niches, Non-Fungible Tokens, autosuggest that helps with more information on new topics, etc.
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Knowing Availability Status
This feature helps you see who is online by seeing available writer badges. You can now find writers conveniently and this is more effective.
Tools To Scale and Control Your Workforce
Enhancing flexibility will help you get equitable people for your projects while keeping damage and expenses under control to prevent disappointment.
New Approvals Can Be Set Up.
Multiple authorized users can sign off offers before sending them to a professional. These approvals ensure company policy is being met and departmentalization requirements are set. Operators can change settings for each team in a company account to help control the damage.
Payroll Made Easier
Payment to different workers from different states is made more accessible with the help of a trusted third party. Upwork Payroll makes it easier to obey workers’ state and country employment laws, reduction of legal disputes associated with work, etc.
Unlimited Opportunities That Help You Hire with Useful Effect.
This feature is a partnership of Upwork and tent partnership to help business entities get connected with displaced professionals whose lives have been interfered with by disputes and wars. This sounds great, right?
Own Up to Your mistakes: Steps and Reasons Why It’s Compulsory to Report Errors to Your Client.
It is human nature to feel the urge to hide mistakes. This great topic I found on the Fiverr platform is an eye-opener and will speak directly to why freelancers need to take responsibility and make up for their mistakes.
The best reputation possible can be built by accepting your mistakes. Point out your errors to clients early to prevent damage. Never be that person that always has an excuse for a mistake.
Importance of Accepting Your Mistake
Accountability for one’s actions is the secret key to success in life and business. Accepting your mistake means not hiding it from your employee. The faster you admit your mistakes, the easier it is to rectify, and further damage will be controlled.
Common Freelancer Mistakes
Certain mistakes committed by almost every freelancer usually harm performance and productivity. These mistakes include inadequate timing, communication gap, and over-tasking.
Missing Deadlines
Time constraint is one of the most annoying things in freelancing. Certain conditions such as health issues, electricity failure, accidents, theft, bulky work, family emergencies, and more may warrant not meeting up on time.
Copy Errors
Mistakes, including copy errors and typos, can cause damage to a business’s reputation when published. Cross-checking your work is vital in avoiding typing errors. Avoiding copy and preventing copy errors is very important.
Imagine being in the situation of Banner Travel Agency in 1988, which made a big mistake of publishing their Yellow Pages ad for “exotic travel” to become “erotic travel” options. That cost them an 80% business loss, and they were charged $10 million.
Misinformation About a Goal
Rejection and not getting paid can be avoided by understanding the goal of the project correctly. Communication is essential when this happens. Set up a meeting with clients immediately and take the appropriate step to tackle the mistake.
When Should You Compensate a Client?
Compensation for clients might arise when you make a terrible mistake. Compensation can be in the form of a price reduction on a new project, free work, etc.
Don’t be Afraid to Own-up
Mistakes are unavoidable. So, always accept your mistake without any form of dispute. The client’s trust is gained by how you behave after a mistake.
Repositioning Retirement: Freelancing Benefit After Age 60
The freelance platform Toptal has recently published an article where it talks about the benefits of freelancing at an older age. People at retiring age often see freelancing as a process by which ample time is spent on the work process rather than the actual work. Meanwhile, freelancing Is a meaningful engagement that offers considerable financial benefit, giving more time for investments to mature and social security benefits to accrue.
Gradual Exit from the Workforce
I strongly believe that older workers are wanted today in many workspaces due to their experience, creativity, and other good virtues, which make them work past retirement age.
People often delay most hobbies till a later stage in life because they believe life has different stages, including; working and retirement, which is dangerous. After all, delayed hobbies might still not be fulfilled due to a loss of structure, professional connection, etc.
Programs are being created to support and retain matured workers by Microsoft and Marriot due to the widespread need for semi-retirement opportunities.
Freelancing offers an excellent opportunity to both workers and employers. The employers are allowed to continue receiving unique knowledge and skills acquired through experience while the burden of post-retirement stress is being lifted on the workers.
The Financial Benefit of Freelancing
Freelancing during retirement age has numerous advantages, which include a higher flow of income, increased savings, and continuous integration into the workforce. Remote work provides excellent opportunities to fulfil post-retirement hobbies due to financial and mental benefits as well as providing emotional and financial security to workers while providing employers great benefits too.
Freelancing offers older workers flexibility, activeness, and income to achieve set goals. The demand for skilled freelancers, especially those with experience in tech or creative fields, remains high. When outsourcing projects or hiring consultants, however, managers often look for experienced professionals who can confidently perform exceptional tasks.
Newly Added Category on Guru
Freelance Life magazine brings unique details on the new feature recently added to the freelance platform Guru. This new category, “Education and Training,” is developed to make work and communication easier between freelancers and their clients. The new category comprises;
Popular Skills in Education
Some of these skills are; Adult and Special Education, Patient Education, Mentoring, Continuing Education, Mathematics and Art Education, Executive Coaching, E-learning, and English Teaching, SCORM, Early Childhood and Elementary Education, Freelance Educators, Fitness Consulting, etc.
Popular Skills in Training
It is also exciting to find out that this platform now has a category for various forms of training, which includes Learning Management Systems, Corporate and Curriculum Development, Personal Trainer, Communication Training, Nutrition Education, Training Videos, Freelance Training, Educational instruction, Instructional Design, Sales Training, and lots more.
You may be wondering what could be the idea behind this new feature. If you are a freelancer with knowledge and skills in Education and Training category, I will recommend that you update your profile on Guru for easy identification by employers when they are searching for skills in this category. Promotion of this category to employers will start soon for easier work processes between employers and freelancers. This process will help in relieving freelancers’ stress of finding clients.
If you are a freelancer on Guru, here are valuable tips on the platform, which I will also recommend;
- Services offered for both Education and Training should be updated on your profile. Skills should also be tagged.
- The portfolio should be updated to give samples of work done. Skills should also be tagged on the portfolio.
- Saved searches should be updated to help find jobs in this new category easier and faster.
Profile updating helps increase visibility and secure new jobs related to your skills. Employers can connect with freelancers from across the globe to get work done securely and cost-effectively on the platform. If you are willing to hire a freelancer with specific skills, it is as easy as posting your job on guru and getting quotes within hours. Freelancers can also search for jobs that match their skills on this Platform.
Freelancing and Neurodiversity
It is quite intriguing to find out how freelancing and neurodiversity have any correlation. Well, this time, the unique platform Peopleperhour has come again with a unique way to assist us in using our brain variation to achieve accomplishment in our profession.
A neurodivergent person has a different mental or neurological function from what is considered normal. The platform honors our variation with this great context. The difference in our brain functions and cognition is customary, making neurodivergent people atypical.
How Neurodiverse Can People Benefit from Freelancing?
Freelancing is believed to give the privilege of choice to about 74 % of neurodivergent writers. Well, I can say freelancing is interesting, given that you are your boss. It allows you to choose the type of work and time to work, which is an added advantage to the neurodiverse community.
Minimization of face-to-face interaction is the reason why most community prefers freelancing since 73% of people prefer working online at their own pace.
Challenges in Freelancing and Neurodiversity
A survey revealed that 60% of freelancers have difficulty scheduling their working time, and 47% complain of unreasonable demands from clients. 47% also complain of not being able to communicate about their neurodiversity to clients.
How everyone can comfortably talk about their neurodiversity in the workplace, as well as how to support our environment, is essential since most people cannot open up due to a lack of awareness, especially if an adverse reaction is involved.
Supporting Neurodiverse Community
Understanding that individuals have unique choices over work will help remove barriers and allow people to feel comfortable in their workplace. Many advantages such as modernization, creativity, transformation, and lots more can be achieved when a workplace that supports individual differences without a barrier is created.
Attaining a standard project always requires you to enquire about the mode of communication preferred by your worker, the work details needed, the time of submission, and the cost. Asking them about the method of payment is also essential.
Benefits of Working from Home
The Flexjobs platform recently wrote an article that talks about the benefits of remote jobs. It is a fast-moving world, and technological advancement now has enormous effects on almost all aspects of life. With this technology, you can work from home comfortably.
During the ravaging pandemic, a lot of alterations have been made in the workspace as you do not need to be present physically at your workplace. Nonetheless, people learn more about the advantages of working from home. Some of the advantages are:
Adequate Work-life Balance.
Flexibility is a unique advantage of working from home. You can attend to other personal needs such as cooking, online meeting, dropping and picking up kids from school, online fitness class, and lots more.
Minimized Commute Stress
The stress of going to work every day might increase your risk of ill health and anxiety. That commuting time can be used to do meaningful things such as spending time with friends and family, exercising, having a healthy sleep, and lots more.
Elimination of Location Barriers
Working from home gives you the benefit of working in the company of your choice without being there physically, most especially when the company is located in a high mortgage area. This will save the cost of expenses of living there.
Inclusion and Diversity
Inclusivity is increased since working from home allows hiring people from different backgrounds irrespective of their health status. The company chooses to support community, diversity, and creativity by hiring people with diverse perspectives, which can be hard to attain when recruiting is restricted to a specific location.
Cost Effective
A worker and an employee can save money from the reduced cost of transportation, office maintenance, and parking fees. These savings add up and put money back into the wallet. The US saved more than $30 daily while Flexjobs saved $5 million for real estate costs, transport subsidies, e.tc. due to working from home.
Healthier and Happier Work Life.
People working from home tend to be happier due to flexibility and low stress. Remote jobs will provide more time for interests and hobbies, and improve personal relationships with others.
