Freelancing and competition

Every day more and more people go to freelance, so a newcomer to this business is most afraid of competition. What to do? How to stand out from others?

No competition

Working under an employment contract in an office, a person is more or less confident in his future and does not worry that he may be fired due to some mistake. In a different position is a freelancer who knows perfectly well that if the result does not satisfy the customer, then tomorrow you can be left without work – there are half a dozen specialists like him who are ready to take his place with pleasure.

How to survive in the face of fierce competition? In fact, there is no competition in freelancing. Yes, in fact it is, but often more illusory than explicit. The number of competitors is not always quality, but in this case, the presence of the proper level of professionalism in your niche. A vivid example of “fake” competition is that there are often more responses to a project on labor exchanges than people who are ready to really take up the job.

For beginners, this is very scary, so the only “weapon” that they are ready to use against competitors is to reduce the cost of the order. This approach is not always correct and is clearly not good for the performer himself – you don’t want to spend a lot of time and effort for the sake of a penny. The main thing is not to give up and solve the problem that has arisen.

Common mistakes when responding to a project

It is difficult for customers to find a good contractor for a project, even if there are more than forty people interested in the work. This is due to the fact that most freelancers make a number of gross mistakes when writing a response to a task.

1. Lack of relevance. In other words, they rarely pay attention to what the customer needs. Potential performers send applications for a project that requires special specialization, while not having the proper experience or even education.
2. Incorrect portfolio submission. The customer expects to receive a decent portfolio that is freely available and does not require additional actions (such as downloading zipped files). If we are talking about a profile on the exchange, then often freelancers do not bother to fill out a preview and somehow systematize their work.
3. Uncertainty. A written response to a vacancy can say a lot about the performer, for example: “… well, as such, I have absolutely no experience in this area, but …” It is immediately clear from the proposal that a person admits his defeat in advance, therefore, to view works or resumes do not even get it.
4. Cluttered personal pages in social networks. If the buyer is interested in your portfolio, resume, then he will want to know what kind of person you are. Of course, we post what we want on personal pages, but the subscription feed will immediately tell you what the freelancer is interested in and how he spends his leisure time.
5. Missing deadlines. The most common mistake. If you fail to invest in the allotted time, try to report it.
6. Project processing pipeline. Nobody needs just a performer, everyone wants to have a person who is really interested and has a lot of new ideas.

You just need to get rid of all these mistakes and then the competition will be the last thing to be afraid of.

Become the best

In freelancing, competition is inherent only at the initial levels, in other words, when you are a beginner or perform simple tasks that dozens and maybe thousands of potential performers are ready to do. The more difficult the task or project, the fewer opponents you will have to compete with. In order to prepare a complex project, you need not only to have special professional skills, but also personal ones that will put you on a level above your opponents. To be the best at what you do, you need to have these:

• personal makings:
• self-learning;
• discipline;
• healthy assessment of assigned tasks;
• Ability to work overtime.

At first glance, these are words that almost every freelancer will write in the strengths column in his resume, but after the start of cooperation, the customer will know if you were honest with him at the very beginning.

Not every person is capable of self-learning, some need to constantly attend some courses, trainings, external motivators in order to have one more tick in the theoretical base section. The ability to learn independently does not depend on anything. In this process, a person is constantly and does it for himself, to expand and improve his capabilities. Today, on the Avtor24 exchange, you can not only earn good money, but also learn, because the platform contains a lot of useful material for beginners and professionals.

About 40-60% of potential freelancers are immediately eliminated when it comes to a large project that needs to be completed in a short time. The ability to work overtime is not only highly sought after in today’s freelancing market, it also pays well. Few people are willing to sacrifice their weekends or work more than ten hours a day. It is clear that you cannot work like this all the time, but on the other hand, a freelancer rests much more than an office worker and can afford to rest after a completed project.
Summing up, we can safely say that the competition is not as terrible as it seems at the very beginning. It exists only for those who do not know how to work.

When, after many sleepless nights, the diploma is finally ready, I want to pass it and forget it. But the university will not lag behind the student so easily. After all, the full text of the diploma was read only by the supervisor, and a whole commission will gather to evaluate it. Therefore, in many respects, his assessment depends on how a student defends a diploma.

So what is a successful defense?

• Competent protection text
• positive diploma review
• confident answers to commission questions

In the introduction to the course it is necessary to indicate many important points. One of them is methodology. The student is required to indicate what methods he will use in the study of the topic. This is not the easiest task, and often students cannot cope with this task themselves. In this case, you can contact us. Our experts will write you a paper of any complexity, and you can discuss the price with them personally.

In the introduction to the course it is necessary to indicate many important points. One of them is methodology. The student is required to indicate what methods he will use in the study of the topic. This is not the easiest task, and often students cannot cope with this task themselves. In this case, you can contact us. Our experts will write you a paper of any complexity, and you can discuss the price with them personally.

In the introduction to the course it is necessary to indicate many important points. One of them is methodology. The student is required to indicate what methods he will use in the study of the topic. This is not the easiest task, and often students cannot cope with this task themselves. In this case, you can contact us. Our experts will write you a paper of any complexity, and you can discuss the price with them personally.

In the introduction to the course it is necessary to indicate many important points. One of them is methodology. The student is required to indicate what methods he will use in the study of the topic. This is not the easiest task, and often students cannot cope with this task themselves. In this case, you can contact us. Our experts will write you a paper of any complexity, and you can discuss the price with them personally.

Speech structure

Of course, what exactly to say in the defense depends mainly on the topic of the thesis and on what exactly is written in it, but there are general recommendations that are suitable for everyone.

• First of all, we need to greet the members of the evaluation committee. (“Dear members of the attestation commission! Your attention is presented to the final qualifying work on the topic …”)
• Introductory part. Here you need to reveal the topic and identify the issues that are raised in the work.
• Relevance of the topic. At this stage, it is important to prove the relevance of the chosen topic and the degree of its development in other people’s works. Indicate the subject, object, objectives and purpose of the study.
• Theme disclosure structure. Here you just need to list the paragraphs that are in the work and briefly describe them.
• Problem statement. To confirm the relevance of the topic, it is necessary to state the problem and indicate the debatable opinions on this matter.
• Conclusions. At the end of the speech, the commission should hear the conclusions that the student came to in the course of writing the diploma, in which there are ways and methods for solving the stated problems.

On the one hand, it seems that it is much easier to write a graduation speech than the diploma itself. However, high-quality speech is a skillful squeeze out of the work, as well as its competent presentation. And it often happens that a diploma is written with the highest score, and a student gets a worse grade. Therefore, if there is a lack of self-confidence, you can order a speech on our website. And then the probability of failure due to bad speech will disappear. After all, we give a twenty-day guarantee for the work, and if something does not suit you, you can demand that the author finalize the order for free. We make sure that students are satisfied, so if the final version of the work does not meet the stated requirements, you will get your money back.

Formal requirements

When writing a speech for a thesis, you must also take into account that there are purely formal requirements.

• Time. Do not forget that there are many students, but the commission is one. Therefore, the time for a defensive speech is regulated and ranges from 5 to 7 minutes. At the same time, you should remember about the time that will be spent on commission questions.
• Intonation. Where, no matter how on the defense of a diploma, is it important to win over listeners? Therefore, it is better not to read the speech monotonously, making accents with intonation.
• Style. When presenting a speech, it should be remembered that the main goal is understanding on the part of the commission. Therefore, you should not be too smart, but you can’t switch to colloquial speech either. In this matter, you need to observe the golden mean.
• Pronouns. As in the diploma itself, it is important to remember during the defense that although the author of the diploma is clearly spelled out, there are a lot of true owners of knowledge reflected in the work (the authors of all the sources the student relied on plus the supervisor), so first-person pronouns are not appropriate here.
• Questions. After the end of the speech, questions from the commission will inevitably follow, and you need to be ready for them. Suggested questions should be written down in the course of writing the thesis, work through all the questions that arose during the pre-defense, and you can also look at the questions at the end of chapters from textbooks on this topic.
• Pre-protection. In such a matter as defending a diploma, it is better not to be presumptuous and neglect pre-defense. On it, you can practice giving a speech and write down possible questions from the audience. This will allow you to feel more confident in the official defense.

Of course, these are only recommendations, and no one forces you to strictly follow them. However, the rejection of some positions during the defense will create additional questions from the certification committee, which is not always loyal. Therefore, it is best to think through all possible questions and answer them in advance in a defensive speech. Then the teachers will have a minimum of questions, and they will be grateful for the saved time.