Freelancing for Students: A new face of development

Freelancing is a working style where individuals work on a part-time or short-time basis for a particular company or organisation and have to accomplish a certain level of commitments and tasks and are offered pay per the work a particular individual provides them. It offers exposure to many fields and people with lots of interests are influenced by it massively. One of the biggest helping hands here is the flexibility of time as well as place and people can earn as much as they want depending on their skills. Freelancing for students is the best-suited option as it helps them in building and recognizing the next career step as well as financially supporting them. Some of the best freelancing sites are Topal, Upwork, freelancer.com, LinkedIn, etc.

Some of the key benefits that come from freelancing by students involve adding a little pinch of variety to their life that helps them pursue the things that make them happy rather than just being engulfed by studies, college, school, friends, family, etc. cause this gives them a different perspective to focus on. It complements their studies and they develop a sense of discipline and learn to value things that are important in their life as they now know how to take hold of their life as now they are their boss. Also, it helps one to be financially stable to some extent as compared to other people of their age group . It also helps one to boost up their skills and get ready for the market as they know beforehand what the world demands.

There is a set of opportunities present for freelancing students in the market depending on their skill set in which they perfectly fit and some of these are working as a content writer (where an individual can write blogs, articles, emails, resumes, etc.); Voiceover artist where individual lend their voices for a particular video (than whether its a podcast, audiobook, etc.) ; Online tutor (where you can teach any subject in which you feel you are good at); graphic designer (where you have to work on different designing software like canvas, figma, etc. to design graphics) etc.

The income of different types of freelancers ranges differently depending on their skill set, the type of job, its reach in the market etc., and salaries according to it are as follows: Voiceover workers are offered an average salary of 3.5 LPA, content writers are offered an average salary of 3 LPA, online tutors are offered an average salary of 2.2 LPA , YouTube Vlogger is offered an average salary of INR 18k per month , virtual assistant is offered an average salary of 36k per month, web developer is offered an average salary of 3.5 LPA , Audio transcriptionist are offered an average salary of 3.5 LPA , Graphic Designers are offered an average salary of 3 LPA , Social Media Marketers are offered an average salary of 4.8 LPA, etc.

Top Freelancing Skills:

• Content Writing/Copywriting
• Video Editing
• Graphic Designing
• Web Development/Coding
• Social Media Manangement
• Digital Marketing
• Search Engine Optimization

Top Freelancing Platforms:

• Fiverr
• Freelancer.com
• Upwork
• Jooble
• Flexjobs
• SimplyHired
• Behance
• Dribble
• Linkedin

The different types of expectations from freelancers are that they begin work on client’s directions, fulfil the work as per their requirements, accept criticism as well as feedback, and be prepared for revamping the work multiple times until the work reached the satisfaction of the client and all of this needs a lot of patience, time management, communication and negotiation skills, dedication, etc. Also one needs to document everything they do as well as highlight their skills and proactively communicate with their clients and their colleagues.