Brokerme is a platform that connects freelancers with people and companies without any bureaucracy, just that the freelancer signs up providing initially only the email through the link. After registering, the freelancer begins to receive several jobs in his email.

Freelancer then applies to the job to correct your skills. At this point he sends his resume containing information about education, experience and contact details.

Here’s the best part! The company contacts the freelancer directly through Brokerme. Company and Freelancer enter into an agreement for the start of the project without Brokerme restricting both. No freelancers are charged at all, only one fee is charged to companies or people who need to find freelancers to do the job.

But since Brokerme doesn’t use a feedback platform or success score, then there comes a question. Customers have no way of knowing if the freelancer is a reliable person who can actually provide the skills he says he is capable of. Fortunately, there are some steps that the freelancer can take to pass more credibility and trust to companies or to those who will hire you.

1 – Create a linkedin profile

• Use a business-friendly photo (The first impression is the one that stays).
• Write about the position you want (Detailed description).
• Consider adding an introductory video.
• Post your most relevant works.
• Add your work and education experience.
• Include links to the jobs you’ve completed.

2 – Apply to projects related to your skills

• Start with small projects and punctuals

3 – Cherish on your resume and your cover letter.

• See this link an example of how to create a simple and objective curriculum. Here we show some tips on how to create your cover letter.
• You can also create your resume or cover letter using the resume.io website, where you have several professional resume templates for you to try for free.

4 – Create a portfolio

• In this link we gave several tips on how to create a portfolio, even if you have no work done.

Recruiters face hundreds of CVs during a hiring and recruiting phase, often under high time pressure. That’s why applications that briefly describe the most important required skills and experiences in 5-6 sentences, with reference to the relevant project experiences and the role in which these skills and experiences were applied and possibly new ones gained, stand out.

What is the best way to proceed when writing the personal statement?

Certainly, the must-have requirements are almost all to be fulfilled and also to be mentioned in a personal statement with reference to the role and the concrete project in which one was active and had successfully fulfilled these requirements.
In addition, one increases the chances if another “nice-to-have” skill or experience is also mentioned in the personal statement with concrete project references and activity descriptions. If it is not directly obvious from the project offer which are the Must-Have and Nice-To-Have requirements, one could derive this distinction from the project title.

Our experience shows that with 80% coverage of the skills and experience required in the project offer in the personal statement, the enclosed CV is only briefly analyzed as confirmation of the personal statement. This speeds up the recruiting process considerably and the recruiter gets a positive picture of you in advance through your Personal Statement alone.

On this website you can create your resume and cover letter. Worth a try

When a person can perform his tasks efficiently and nothing seems to take him out of his focus, we can say that this person possessed a Productive Mindset.

Mindset are mental attitudes, that is, the mentality or vision that each of us has in relation to life, and this influences how you organize your day to day life.

We, the freelancers, need to have a highly productive and ready mindset to undertake. If you can not get organized in your daily life, how much time will you have for a trip with the family or girlfriend, get a movie, travel, study, do your favorite hobby or take care of your health?

Let’s focus on those tools that will help you.

DEVELOP YOUR PRODUCTIVITY AND MINDSET

The following step-by-step guide for you to start developing your productive mindset:

FOLDER ORGANIZATION

Start by organizing your computer files into separate folders. Create a folder for each client and a subfolder for each part. Organize the sites in bookmarks, but all separated into folders, name categories. This makes it easier to find an important article or tutorial.

DAILY BACKUP

Keep a daily backup of everything you do. You can even store your data in Google Drive, which offers 15 GB of free space, and you have other options like OneDrive, Dropbox, iCloud and Mega. This latter service option offers 50 GB of free storage.

FINANCIAL PLANNING

Use spreadsheets to track your expenses and earnings. You can create a simple spreadsheet in excel or free options like LibreOffice which also has excel spreadsheet software.

In addition to spreadsheets you can also opt for free online systems like quickbooks, which is a financial system, contains cash flow, reports and control of revenues and expenses. It is worth checking.

TASK MANAGEMENT

Have an agenda with annotated tasks. In addition to the pen and paper you can use free tools for task management, which are:

Trello (https://trello.com/)

Runrun.it (https://runrun.it)

Remember the milk (https://www.rememberthemilk.com/)

Asana (https://asana.com)

TIME MANAGEMENT

And in order not to lose focus while working, I suggest using two combined techniques:

• 1st – Organize your tasks in 1-3-5: Consists of listing your tasks in order of priority. 1 large task, 3 medium tasks and 5 simple tasks. This way you can prioritize the most important tasks.
• 2nd – Pomodoro Technique: This technique manages the productivity time, with it you can keep focus every 25 minutes with intervals of 5 minutes. Every 4 cycles you should take a longer break, between 15 and 30 minutes. These intervals are very important to rest.

To control time with the pomodoro technique you can access the site https://tomato-timer.com/.

CONCLUSION

These tools and techniques can help you manage time and organize your tasks, but avoid interruptions while working. Provide a work schedule and a schedule for the next day.

During the execution of the tasks avoid seeing whatSapp, answering emails, chewing on facebook, etc …

All these things can take away your focus and concentration. Spend a few minutes of the day to answer emails, view facebook posts and other little things that can get in your way. You can do this as the first task of the day by stipulating a half-hour, and then focusing on the most important tasks.

If you want to know what your own style of productivity, access this link (http://lpprodutividade.com.br/blog/work-simply-teste-productividade-personal/) and make a simple test.

Do you know what Networking is and why it is so important?

WHAT IS NETWORKING?

Networking is a network of contacts where people with common interests share services and information.

WHY NETWORKING IS SO IMPORTANT?

Through your network of contacts you can do your personal marketing and meet people who will bring you benefits, as well as knowing who you are and what you do! Here are the advantages:

Prospects

This is the best benefit a freelancer can get in a network of contacts! Your future clients need to know you and your services. Without them it is impossible to keep up the freelance career.

Business Partners

You will need freelancers to work on a particular part of the project, or when you are busy you can refer someone you trust.

Expand your Knowledge
By relating to people from other areas you will be learning about various topics and also passing on your knowledge.

Be Indicated

If you have done a well-done job for that job, the client can tell you to other future clients. Or even your business partner will point you to another Job.

HOW TO BUILD A PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING

I’m going to list some of the tools that can help you build a professional networking:

Linkedin

Linkedin is a social network of business relationships, its main objective is to interconnect groups of professionals who have the same interests. Briefly, it is an online resume.

That is why you must create a Linkedin profile, you will connect with professionals from all over the world, conduct your personal marketing and facilitate the search for companies.

https://www.linkedin.com/

Facebook Groups

Join facebook groups, there are several groups from all possible areas. Not only that but post information that can help the group and respond to the needs of the group.

You may encounter someone who has difficulty solving a problem where you have the ability to help them.

Coworking

Coworking is a shared office where professional freelancers and start-ups meet daily to work. They have a whole structure to attend to the autonomous public, telephone, meeting room, computer and most importantly, coffee can not miss.

At Coworking you can do your Networking with people from different areas and carry out your work without distractions or procrastination.

Watch the following video and learn more about coworking:

BeerOrCoffee

BeerOrCoffee is an application available for both android and iOS, with it you can invite other connected freelancers with the skills or knowledge of interest to have a coffee or beer and discuss about a project. Who made the invitation pays the first drink.

The application has more than one hundred establishments registered in the country like breweries, coffee shops, hotels and coworkings.

https://beerorcoffee.com/coworking

Events, Fairs and Classroom style courses

Participating in events and fairs for those who are shy is a bit difficult, but I give you some advice:

just focus on your goals

that the rest is happening naturally, when you least expect it, already made several contacts.

Friends, family and colleagues

Do your friends and colleagues know what you do? These would be the first groups that could tell you.

Keep in touch with your friends, invite them for a lunch, they can be your future clients or partners.

E-mail signature

With a beautiful and objective email signature, the people you communicate with by email know what you do.

It’s a great way to leave your contacts like facebook, linkedin, portfolio, so people can see your work and your mobile number (WhatsApp) for more direct contact.

Conclusion

Try not to settle for working only at home, the relationship with people is very important. You have several ways to communicate with them and increase your Networking! just have will power and go to fight.

By following these tips, you will always have work.

HOW TO BE A FREELANCER FORMALIZED

MEI – Individual Microentrepreneur, what is it?

The MEI is the small individual entrepreneur that has a billing of up to R $ 60,000.00 per year and that carries out one of the economic activities found in this list:

http://www.portaldoempreendedor.gov.br/temas/quero-ser/formalize-se/ativities-permitted

To know more about the MEI visit the site:

http://www.portaldoempreendedor.gov.br/

When you leave the company and become a freelancer you lose some benefits like: FGTS, health insurance, 13th salary, unemployment insurance and vacations. But like every good Brazilian citizen you need to make your IR statement.

With MEI, you are exempt from paying the IR and pay monthly 49 or 50 reais as a service provider, which are the taxes of INSS and ISS.

Rights

Duties

You can look for an accountant to register for MEI, by law the services are free, or make your own registration by the link:

http://www.portaldoempreendedor.gov.br/temas/quero-ser/formalize-se/formalize-se

Conclusion

You will become a legal person and you can issue invoices to your customers. Many companies stop hiring a freelancer for not being legalized, being MEI, the doors will open up much easier.

And we come to the end of this series

Thank you those who accompany a series and hope you have liked! But there is a lot more for you to open up the freelance career. It is important that you always seek more to enrich your knowledge. Go ahead always!

A big hug to everyone and until the next post.

And do not forget, if you want to find jobs that match your abilities, this is the place to shine! And it’s free!

At the end you and your client will be satisfied with the result.

BRIEFING

Briefing is the first phase of site planning!
Definition of Briefing according to Google:

It is a concise and objective set of information and instructions about the mission or task to be performed.

The Briefing can be a document or a form containing questions such as:

• What are the main goals of the site?
• What messages should the site pass to visitors?
• Is there a date for the site to be launched?
• …

These questions, in addition to other questions, are designed to help you succeed in developing your site.

We can divide these questions into the following topics:

• Know the Company and its business
  Know what the company does its environment. And if the focus of the site to publicize or sell product, knowing how it works or product or system is indispensable.
• Site Goals
  Establish two to three goals that the site should achieve. This way you can focus your efforts in a way that impacts the site visitors. Often times, the client will not even know how to set the goals that the site should achieve, at which point you should enter your sense of observation and research to help the company move forward.
• Target Audience
  Knowing the target audience of the company is important because it will help you to define the language that should be used on the site, what type of content to produce, what media channels to use, and when and how to offer promotions or possible changes and improvements on the product.
• Competitors
  Find out who your competitors are! how they sell and launch their products, used visual identity, messaging, and social networking.
  With the Briefing in hand you should organize the tasks and deadlines using some project management tool. It can be from a spreadsheet to a task manager such as Runrun.it or trello.

WIREFRAMES AND ARCHITECTURE

The sitemap is part of the information architecture of the site, through which we can define what pages the site will have, and the connection between them. Basically you will be creating all the navigation of the site.

With all the planning set it’s time to get your hands on the dough. You will create the wireframes of the pages. Wireframe is a prototype, it’s a basic drawing that shows the architecture of how the final page will be, a sketch of your pages that helps you define the hierarchy of content.

Wireframes look like this, if hand drawn:

Or you can use tools like:

MockFlow

Moqups

LAYOUT

Once you have made a basic sketch of your website the next step is the layout design. At this stage you should have the company logo in hand, as well as materials that refer to the company’s visual identity. To draw the layout you can use Illustrator and to edit images, Photoshop, both are from Adobe.

DEVELOPMENT

The next step, after the client has approved the site layout, you should start developing the site. This process is a bit more time-consuming as it goes into encoding and integration with your CMS, for example: WordPress, which is a popular and free CMS.

TEST

With the site ready it’s time for you to test it, you should test it in many ways, from the acceptance of layout to its usability, usability. Try to test the site with lay people on the subject matter of the site, and with people who know what it is. You should also test if your site is functional.

You can use a checklist, for this I recommend the site: https://frontendchecklist.io/

This checklist deals with several topics such as: HTML, Webfonts, CSS, Javascript, accessibility, performance, SEO, etc … Worth checking out.

You can also test your site on the new google tool: https://testmysite.thinkwithgoogle.com/intl/en

LAUNCH

And the big day of website launch arrives! At this stage you already have a purchased domain and a hosting that supports all the requirements of your site.

It is worth remembering that before making the final release it is a good idea to put the website in a temporary link for the final review. And after reviewing put the website in the final link.

CONCLUSION

It is important that throughout the development process of the site the client knows in which step is his project. You can inform it by email. It is not appropriate to leave the client without any news about the progress of the project for a long time.

All stages of site development must be carefully worked out, so you avoid future problems and you will also have confidence that everything works as it should.

And do not forget, if you want to find jobs with your skills just register on our site, it’s free!

What is a task automator?

Task automaton or task executor is a build system. The role of the task automator is to help programmers perform repetitive tasks such as:

• Minification of scripts and styles;
• Concatenation;
• Cache busing;
• Testing, linting & optimization
• Dev Servers

GRUNT

Grunt is the best-known front-end automator, created in 2012 by Ben Alman. The central grunt file is Gruntfile.js that is created at the root of the project, it is where the tasks (tasks) to be executed in the project build are created. This file manages the various plugins and creates temporary files on the disk, until it generates the final file.

Strengths of Grunt

• Great Community
• It has many plugins

Grunt Weaknesses

• Too large configuration files
• Large number of parameters for each plugin
• Slow processing when using very large files

GULP

Gulp is a task automator released shortly after Grunt, was created in 2013 by Eric Schoffstall.

The information is passed through the tasks using the pipeline method, which reduces the number of I / O operations. That’s why Gulp is faster than Grunt, because it uses streams from nodejs to write files directly to disk. Like Grunt, Gulp uses the Gulpfile file, which bears a similarity to the common nodejs code.

Strengths of Gulp

• Best performance
• Small, easy-to-read configuration file
• Lesser learning line
• Avoid creating intermediate files
• Ease of use through top 5 API commands
• Simpler and smaller plugins

Here’s how to install gulp:

Want to know more? enter the Gulp website: https://gulpjs.com/

CONCLUSION

Myself until a while ago I did not use any task automator! But I really realized that to develop a project, be it a website or an application, it is necessary to have the thing organized and simplified all in one place, done in one way and with a few lines of command.

WordPress is a content management system for website and blog development! developed in PHP with MySQL database! And the best of it, is that it’s a totally free platform!

If you have a low budget to hire a professional to develop your site you can even do it! Just study a little!

WordPress is very easy to use! and there are numerous tutorials on youtube explaining how to install!

In this video explains how to install WordPress:

To create a portfolio or a blog and even a beautiful, wonderful website, there are numerous plugins that help you in this task.

THEMES AND PLUGINS

WordPress has several free themes that you can use on your site. There are themes from the most basic to the most beautified and complex!

In addition to the free themes you can also buy complete themes, the most well-known theme sales site is the themeforest. On this site you will find the most varied themes for the development of your site.

For developing websites with specific functions and needs the WordPress Plugins is the solution! Plugins are applications that complement and modify functionality in a site.
Example of Plugins:

• Turn Your Website Into Ecommerce: Selling Plugins, Example: Woocommerce
• Optimize Your WordPress Website: SEO Plugins, Example: YOAST SEO
• Develop a Landingpage: Page Builder plugins, example: Elementor
• Turn your site into a quiz: example: plugin Advisor Quiz

Anyway! you can create any kind of website with WordPress! but be aware that Plugins can be paid or free.

At the time of installing a plugin it is important that the plugin is compatible with the version of your WordPress, that it has already been tested in the version of WordPress in use and has been updated recently! Plugins with more than one year no update is a problem! can compromise the security of your site.

In this how to make a website site, you will have a complete and free steps on how to create a website on WordPress.

SECURITY

WordPress by itself if one of the best CMS in the world is also highly targeted by hackers, making it a constant target of cybercrime.

To avoid these risks there are several security measures to protect the privacy, integrity and availability of your administrator’s resources.

The most basic are:

• Keep WordPress and Plugins always up-to-date;
• Do not use the default admin login! change it to a different name;
• Do not use weak passwords, use the WordPress password generator;
• Limit the number of login attempts by installing the WP Login Lockdown plugin;
• Disable the “anyone can register” option, this option is located under Settings on the General tab;
• Back up your database frequently, you can do this through your hosting or through a plugin.

In order to further index the security of your site WordPress I recommend you know this matter: The Ultimate WordPress Security Guide – Step by Step (2018)

CONCLUSION

There are several reasons to develop your website in WordPress and the main ones are:

• Total control in content management;
• Responsive templates;
• It is easy to use, because it is very practical and intuitive;
• Applying the right security rules becomes a secure site;
• And through Plugins you can better work the SEO of the pages of your site, giving enough result in your digital marketing;
• In addition 27% of the entire internet works through WordPress technology, noting that WordPress has a very large active developer community compared to other CMSs on the market.

Here are the main sections that a curriculum should have:

CONTACT INFORMATION

Enter information where the company can contact you:

• Your name
• Email
• Address
• telephone
• And an up-to-date, beautiful and relaxed photo, do not go putting a photo where you’re in a ballad with friends, or smoking, drinking, etc … Place a discreet photo or leave without a photo.

GOAL

Make a short and impactful statement of your professional goals and the area in which you would like to act! 2 lines would be an ideal size!

Example:

“Front end developer, in which I can maximize my experience in systems development and management.”

This session would be below your name at the top of the document. After your name, this is the first section that a potential employer will read.

EXPERIENCE

In this section, you must indicate the name of the company and its highlighted function, besides the other information such as the period in which it worked and the location of the company, city, state and a brief description of the activities carried out in the company.

Ex:

digital agency Paraleloz
Web designer
– Development of websites in HTML, CSS, Jquery, JavaScript, PHP and WordPress
– Development of layouts for websites and systems in Illustrator and Photoshop

You can also include in your resume completed projects of clients as a freelancer. But first make sure you have permission from the client to include such projects.

The best way to do this is when you close a budget or a contract. Put a clause in your budget requesting permission to include the project in your portfolio. So from the initial moment of work you will know if you can disclose it or not.

EDUCATION

In Education if you attended a college or any other specialization courses you must provide the name of the institution, city, state and in which year it was formed, in addition to information such as the name of the course and projects undertaken during the course.

SKILLS

The skills section tells you what we know how to do, for example:

• HTML5
• CSS, LESS, SASS
• GIT, GITLAB
• WordPress
• PHP and JavaScript
• Illustrator
• Photoshop
• etc…

You may also be adding the languages you speak! which in this case is a super differential.

These sections are the main ones a resume should have, but if you want to further enhance your resume you can add sections like: Projects, achievements, diplomas and courses, honors and awards, publications and references.

But be careful not to fill your trash curriculum! the more objective he is the better his chances of being called for an interview.

SOCIAL NETWORKS

Your profile on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Linkedin end up being part of the professional screening, so you have to be careful with the messages you transmit.

If you do not want to be misunderstood, in the case of Facebook it is best to leave your profile in private mode.

Keep your Linkedin in line with your resume, which should always be up to date.

CONCLUSION

Before sending your resume to any company it is a good idea to show it to a friend. Ask for feedback! Check typos, so read and reread the document for typos and Portuguese. And good luck in your pursuit of dream job!

We emphasize on cutting-edge technologies to eliminate administrative overhead found in traditional recruiting agencies, which lack in service quality and efficiency.

Brokerme acts fully automated by applying advanced technologies such as smart contracts, automated assessments and inclusion of social footprint of freelancers to evaluate their soft- and hard skills.

Benefits for companies:

Companies get ideally suited freelancers with minimal administrative and communicational effort. Just by sending their project offers to brokerme, they receive freelancers right for the job within short time.

Benefits for freelancers:

Freelancers get their first project offers right after a two-click registration effort into their mailbox without any further steps.

And for the first time, we reward freelancers in two ways:

1. for every successful indication of our project offers
2. by forwarding their external project offers to us

How to quickly register

1 – Register

Making your registration is very simple and quick0. All you need to be part of our value streams is your name and e-mail address. Your CV is not needed at this stage. Moreover, our approach refrains from a time-consuming skill-intake, as well.

2 – Receive Offers

You will receive job offers in your mailbox containing two options: To apply for the job or indicate them to other professionals.

3 – Indicate Freelancers

If you are not available for a specific project offer you may indicate it to one or more professionals. As soon as the position gets filled, you will receive a reward via PayPal.

4 – Monetize your idle assets

Forward to us, your own project offers and those you receive from third-parties to this address freelancer@brokerme.club If we successfully fill the position you will receive a reward via PayPal .

What are you waiting for to be a freelancer Brokerme! Register now!