Freelance Success vs Get Hired for a Job

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How many people have talent and ambition and yet they're still trying to figure out how to make a living? - Sometimes, you just need to get started and to put your gifts and talents into use and move forward, create momentum.

People ask how they can do that and the simple answer is to work with the tools available in the marketplace to promote yourself and do some freelance work to get the ball rolling and to start make money come into your home.

The real advantage to freelance work is that it can happen now instead of taking months or maybe years to become a reality.

One of my mottos is "Now would be fine."

Letting cash flow to you is a good thing. It's encouraging and uplifting and feels a whole lot better than unemployement or job application rejection letters. It will help you get by or maybe even turnout to be the source of your entire living.

The places that you apply to freelance will all depend on your business skills. For example, many people with technical skills like web design, programming html, and skills like search engine optimization may offer their skills on a freelance basis at sites such a http://www.elance.com

We attended Blog World and New Media Expo in Las Vegas in November and were introduced to companies who were hiring those with experience as bloggers. In fact, some very established companies would rather outsource this work than have their own staff take time away from their regular business to participate in social media.

We met executives from http://www.Newstex.com

From the leadership at http://www.demandmedia.com and http://www.associatedcontent.com
we were introduced to sites which are hiring freelance writers, copy editors, videographers, and photographers for current projects and they have lots of freelance opportunities.

For those who have expertise and want to freelance as writers for a publication and can write 4-10 articles weekly, please send an e-mail to lori@successipes.com and let me help you to look at the categories that best fit for you to freelance. We've been interviewing people on our talk show Successipes about their plans for 2010 for Success.

In fact, you can tune-in daily to our live Las Vegas success talk show at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/successipes

Job Fairs a Great Place to Network for Success

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When you go to a job fair, please, have resumes for distribution to potential employers and have business cards or something else printed to give to people who you meet and connect with at the Job Fair. It's so amazing to know that if you reach out to other people and talk to people you can learn more, and possibly open doors you didn't know existed.

Las Vegas has such high unemployment at this time and the most amazing part of the equation is that thousands of those unemployed has extremely advanced business and leadership skills and have either previously owned or run companies or have all the skills necessary to be their own boss.

Try to maximize your opportunities at any and all events you attend so that you can be encouraged along the way to success and so that you can also be supportive of others who are in a period of transition. Try to find the positive factors of your unemployment as a path that will take you in a whole new direction in life. Talk to people, ask questions, do your homework, and network, network, network.

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Job Fairs Success Compliments to Greenspun Media

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As many of you know, I've been pretty disappointed in many of the so-called "Job Fairs" hosted in Las Vegas over the last 3-4 months and I've shared my thoughts publicly about this. My compliments go out to the Job Fair held at the GreenValleyRanch Resort and Casino or GVR for short on August 20, 2009 . The GVR Job Fair was very-well presented , professionally organized and conducted with hospitality and courtesy , it had a balanced combination of employers, employment services and education companies, support agencies such as AARP, and much more media company participation than many other recent Job Fairs. Still. the number of jobs actually being filled at each participating company was very small, just a handful of jobs, nothing huge.

In interviewing business people in Las Vegas this week the topic of conversation was about the City Center and how they will be deciding who will fill their positions in many departments over the next 30 days and then as these people accept their new jobs at City Center, other jobs throughout this city and other places will also become available. This is a start of job movement that we desperately need in this city. Jobs move the economy. If you don't have money, you can't spend it. Not like before when if you didn't have the cash you could reach for a credit card.

Credit card companies have cut so many people's credit lines it isn't funny. We are at a point when people need real spendable dollars and we're looking to companies to create jobs soon.

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Las Vegas Job Zone : Job Fairs

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Las Vegas is an amazing city with thousands of workers who want and need to make a living to continue to live here and to enjoy their lives. The level of unemployment is much higher than it has been in years and that means that many talented individuals are looking for the right job.

There's been a few job fairs recently and with so many people looking for jobs, lots of candidates making their way to these fairs with resumes in hand and hoping that a job will be offered soon. It's scary when in desperation a job fair is arranged and there are more companies at the job fair looking to make money than pay money.

In the last 7 days a job fair was held at the Luxor Hotel. The number of vendors participating was very low. It didn't seem like more than 10 companies had booths in the "Job Fair." Of the 10 companies participating, more than half of them were selling something like an educational program instead of offering jobs.

On a positive note, City Center, a mixed-use commercial and residential mega project had a team of employment representatives to take applications and Allegiant Air had information about jobs for Flight Attendants, their Call Center, and a few more positions.

The Navy is also looking for some excellent new recruits. It is very clear that in the Las Vegas Job Zone, much more needs to be done to get people back to work. We need to help people now.

The best way to stimulate the economy is to have people spending money. People only spend money when they are confident that are going to make money.

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