How Can I Become a Freelancer ?

How you ever wondered how people sit at home and earn loads of money? Have you ever wondered how do they do it? Sitting on their comfy sofas, chilling and working at the same time but also getting paid for it! Don’t you just envy them? Well, you don’t need to anymore because now you can do the same! Yayy! How you ask? Let’s get right to it.

The answer to that is obviously freelancing! What is freelancing? Freelancing is the ease of working for an organization or an employer on a project basis and you get paid when the project or job is done. It’s that simple! You are not bound by the clock or a boss to work from 9 to 5 and clock in your hours but instead you have the freedom to get the job done in a certain period of time at your own pace and will. The amount of freelancers has increased throughout the world as more and more people are benefitting from it and ditching the traditional corporate slavery. Freelancing has more benefits and with the world being so accessible thanks to internet, the demand for freelancers has increased a lot along with the scope of being employed. Companies now hire people from around the world and there are many online platforms solely for this purpose like freelancer.com, behance.net, fiverr.com etc. All you need is a good internet connection and a laptop to work on. Now, what kind of gigs can you bid for?

Well you need to have training in a certain set of skill to be able to sell your services online. With the world being digital, there are tons of services that you may learn online and make money out of it like graphic designing, content writing, drafting, digital marketing or anything at all. Don’t get scared yet, we will tell you how you can learn and polish your skills before actually getting to the selling part. First, you need to discover your skill or know what you’re good at or are fond of so you can excel in it and start making money. Now after figuring that out, you will search for ways to enhance your knowledge on that skill and polish it further but that might just cost you money and whole process of getting admission for the class, paying the money and attending the lecture just makes the process so boring and lengthy that you might just not do it at all. But wait! Have we got something for you?

DigiSkills.pk is this awesome program in Pakistan that provides FREE OF COST online training courses to its trainees from the ease of their home. YAS! The training program was initiated by Government of Pakistan powered by Ignite, how cool is that no? So the purpose is to train 1 million trainees absolutely free to enable them for future of work, which basically means empower the youth for future so they can earn for themselves without a hassle. Also this really redefines the scope of employment and job market as online skills can be useful all over world and have no office or geographical limitations. Sweet.

So what do you need to do? Just sign up at www.digiskills.pk and enroll yourself in any two of you favorite courses from the list of ten. The courses offered are on Freelancing, E-Commerce Management, Digital Marketing, Digital Literacy, QuickBooks, AutoCAD, WordPress, Graphics Design, Creative Writing, and SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Btw, the instructors are truly amazing and experienced people who provide online lectures in Urdu and English to reach out to the masses so don’t worry because your future is in safe hands and it is digital! Enroll now – limited seats available!