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(Part 2)
FREELANCING
Presented By:
Danish Ali (52764) &
Shahrukh Hussain (52765)
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 What is Freelancing?
• Freelancing is working as self-employed person who works for
multiple employers without any signing a long-term contract with
them.

• The self-employed person is called a freelancer who earns by

making use of his specific skills in the marketplace.

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 What is Freelancing?
• Freelancing is a type of a job in which the worker is his own boss.
The worker is flexible in choosing of full time or part time working.

• The work hours, marketplace and prices are also selected by the
freelancer himself.

• Even the freelancer can choose with whom he wants to work.

• Due to this flexibility, it is becoming a full-time job in many regions.

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 Freelancing as a Shop:
Freelancing can be perfectly compared to a shop.

• Where the freelancer is the shopkeeper.

• His services are his products

• The customers are the clients or employers who buy his products in
marketplace.

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 How to become a Freelancer?
• All the freelancing marketplaces are working online which makes the
freelancing easier for a person.

• A person can start freelancing if he possess these:

i. Internet Connection.
ii. A Personal Computer.
iii. A good skill to provide good service.
iv. Knows English.

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 A good place for freelancing.
• The best place to start freelancing is to create an account on any
freelance market online.

• There are many website which provide this opportunity.

• Some of the popular websites are:
• Fiverr
• Upwork
• Freelancer
• Toptal

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 What skills are required?
• Any skill which is highly required by the market is considered as a
good skill for freelancing.

OR

• The skill in which a person can dominate most of the audience in the
market can also be considered as a good skill for freelancing.

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 What skills are required?
• There are many skills which are trending in market and are required by
the audience.

• Some of them are:

i. Content writing
ii. Web development
iii. Graphic designing
iv. SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

• Beside from these there are countless skills which are sold daily in
market.

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To be Continued…

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 Earning from Freelancing:
• Everyday millions of services from freelancers are sold in online
market.

• The estimated earning of US freelancers in 2019 was almost 1 trillion

dollars.

• And in Pakistan in year 2019-2020 the freelancers earned almost

150 million dollars.

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 Freelancing a good option for
students
• Freelancing can be considered a good option for those students who
want to work part time jobs to afford the expenses of their education.

• Because the start up is much easier than other businesses.

• It have more flexible hours.

• And also the pay is good.

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 Freelancing a good option for
students
• The next thing is the skill, and it can be acquired free through many
online sources.

• Pakistan is also taking steps to provide these skills for free for the
youth to cover up the unemployment problems.

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 Freelancing in Pakistan
• Pakistan has become one of the top five countries leaving behind
India.

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 Freelancing in Pakistan

• There are almost 1 million active freelancers who are currently

working from Pakistan.

• Pakistani freelancers have earned more than 1 billion dollars entirely,

which is beneficial to Pakistan’s economy.

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 Steps taken by Pakistan
• Considering the growth of economy, Pakistani Govt. have taken
some steps to promote the number of Pakistani freelancers.

• These steps have left positive impact on the economy of Pakistan.

• The campaign is to teach such skills to the youth which are now the
requirement of the freelance markets.

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 Steps taken by Pakistan
• Pakistan have setup up some online and physical institutes to
achieve this goal.

• They have hired experienced Pakistani freelancers to teach the

students.

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 Steps taken by Pakistan

• Some of the institutes are:

• NFTP (National Freelance Training Program)

• DigiSkills

• E - Rozgaar

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 Steps taken by Pakistan
• These institutes have 3 months course of different domains like
Graphic Designing, Web Development, Content writing etc.

• After completing the course, the candidates are provided with a

certificate from the officials.

• They are completely guided to earn by starting freelancing.

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“Thank You”
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