How to Learn Freelancing in Pakistan Free of cost

Many people wonder when they listen about some individuals working from home and getting paid, they find themselves curious about this process of freelancing. In this article I will mainly discuss these topics:

1. ·         Freelancing
2. ·         Forums in Pakistan to learn freelancing  skills free of cost
3. ·         Top Freelancing sites
4. ·         Starting a career as a freelancer
5. ·         The increasing success rate as a newbie

Freelancing newbie

Freelancing:

Simply we can say freelancing is self-employment.it is not like the process where you get up early in the morning go to an office and do a certain specific job and get paid for it after a month. Living globally in the era of technology now companies don't spend too much of their time to find a person locally and get the things are done, they simply hire freelancers online on an hourly/project basis to get their task done.

Forums in Pakistan to learn freelancing skills free of cost:

It is a big question for the ones who want to work from their home but didn't know where/how to learn without investing money.

In Pakistan, I found out two forums from where you can learn freelancing skills free of cost

1: E-Rozgar

You can get information from this site.

https://www.erozgaar.pitb.gov.pk/

They offer classes for freelancing at E-Rozgar centers. All you have to do is keep an eye on dates and submit online information and appear for an online test. After the shortlisting, you will be called by an e-mail or SMS.

2: DigiSkills

They offer freelancing training completely online.

You can get information from this site.

https://digiskills.pk/default.aspx#Courses

You can also search on youtube, as different YouTubers, also upload the freelancing videos.

    Top Freelancing sites

To Start working as a freelancer you need to make your profile on freelancing sites here are the Top freelancing sites you can explore.

• ·         Fiverr
• ·         Upwork
• ·         peopleperhour
• ·         Freelancer
• ·         Guru .etc

Starting a career as a freelancer

To start working as a freelancer you need to make your profile on freelancing sites as mentioned above.

Before making a profile first try to figure out your skills which you can cash.

Here are the different options you can get trained and start earning

• ·         Graphics and Design
• ·         Digital Marketing
• ·         Writing and Translation
• ·         Video and Animation
• ·         Music and Audio
• ·         Programming and technology
• ·         Business
• ·         Lifestyle

You can also visit the freelancing sites and explore each category.

Also, keep in your mind it is not like the thing just making a profile and you start earning but in reality, in the start, you need to practice much patience because it happens some people make a profile and don't even get any project by three months and some start earning in the very first week of once their the profile is all set.

The increasing success rate as a newbie

Here some of the tricks to be successful as a newbie in freelancing world

• ·         Be consistent and never lose hope
• ·         Do have good communication skills with your client
• ·         Improve your English as it the international language of communication and most of the clients use English to communicate
• ·         Don't copy images/portfolio of other freelancers, be true to your clients.

written by:Azka jahangir khan