Tips for Unemployed or Laid Off Person - Akp51v SMD
Be extremely careful, cautious and paranoid with the 'Free Work Samples'. Chances are, you won't be hearing back from them, but after some months, your submitted work sample would go live on their platform with a suspicious third-party getting the credit for simply editing your manuscript.
Also, when you provide something for free, your self-esteem might come under attack.
The world is not easy on the victims of 'Always Nice' syndrome. Learn Value-based Pricing Model instead. You want to help the clients and the employers, with any problem or performance inefficiency they may be confronting; there is no need to serve a non-serious client, as the risk of your recommendations report being ignored is not as low as you might have predicted.
Remember, if you are working for free, it can be interpreted that you might be lacking the skills needed for the offers with a standard pay, or you might have been rejected by multiple clients or employers...
You are sending out the negative signals about yourself.
If you work for free, even as a part of proving your competency, then they cannot be blamed for taking you granted; you have basically declared to the world, that you are desperate for the job.
If you get good people as your clients or employers, you can still grow safely as they will understand the more personal aspects of your urgent need for an employment opportunity.
That being pointed out, ask yourself with the brutal no-nonsense honesty, exactly how many people would be befitting the title of 'truly good people', whose hearts are really dedicated to the sense of servitude for which they would resist the temptation of exploiting your 'free' assistance.
I hope, that my perspectives about the unpaid internships (excluding the NGO ones) is clarified here.
And if a client or an employer is in the search of good quality employees, would the 'free' labour add any value to their businesses?
If you yourself, were to be a business-owner; would you hire anyone to work with you, just because they are comfortable working for free? Won't it be a red-flag of some sorts, that might be rephrased as, 'I don't get any payment from you, so we both don't have any professional obligation to each other'?
Provide your already published work or indie mini projects on LinkedIn and on other major platforms where they are already protected by the platform's design, and ensure that the people from your industry might be using these platforms.
Case in point? Micro-stock Websites are a great way of making your photos and digital illustrations available to the digital artists and marketing creatives personnel of various organisations world wide.
They take care of Licensing and a form of free marketing for your designs or photographs, as well as the videos or the music.
As for the other professionals, getting published on a SCOPUS indexed journal is a good way, of proving your command over the vocabulary and the statistics required for a more commodities or manufacturing oriented business.
Take these extra points more seriously for Risk Reduction for such events, of unexpected 'let off' by the team or the employers in general:
i. the potentially genuine and REALISTIC sources of theoretically 'passive' cash inflows.
ii. initiating, improving and protecting your Credit History (+ Credit Score) by using Shop Credit Cards and getting Credit Card against your Bank Deposits. Even small Credit purchases are important, just pay the bills the earliest, no matter what!
Tip: PayPal
Though the world has accelerated its adoption of the next big thing in the industrial progress, we have to figure out the ways which make us complete; since doing any job can give you a tireless day, but whether you would get satisfaction or not, will depend of the level of active engagement that job would demand. While one can only predict the future trends on the front of employment, with an optimistic approximation only; starting a blog such as SummaryMaster51v can be a nice creative part-time activity for many. The author welcomes you to this blog, and returns to his reading list for now.
 |
| saeed mhmdi on Unsplash |
