On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > One of the best things is to spruce up your linkedin profile. My dad does > tech recruiting (and has done so for many years) was telling me that > Monster, Careerbuilder, etc...are becoming nominally useful and that most > jobs(both perm and contract) are found via networking and word of mouth.
Definitely. If you want to be successful as a freelance, you need a good word of mouth / networking presence. Kind of a chicken and egg situation, of course, but it highlights the need for people to get out to user group meetings, conferences, to have a blog and / or participate actively in forums and mailing lists. All my freelance work has come from general networking. I haven't worked through an agency / recruiter since the mid-90's. Going freelance is a big step tho'... to deal with the ups and downs, you need a good buffer of cash and you need to top it up during the good times so it's there during the bad times. It used to be said you need enough cash to survive three months with no income but I think a safer buffer is six months these days. Rates are all over the place as well these days which doesn't help... -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwoo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333737 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
