Well if you have some time available, do some volunteer work to build up your resume. This helps you in at least 2 ways: 1: you get experience 2: your "happy clients" may know people who want to be "happy clients" and have a budget. 3: you maybe able to deduct your volunteer work from your taxes( I have no idea about AU's laws though).
Also talk to your professors, they may know someone who needs work done. And check the walls in the CS/IS/EE/ME/... departments for job postings. One last thing, when you get clients keep track of them. Ask if there is any way you can help them again, every 3-6 months or so. To keep clients you need to build a relationship with them. happy hunting marc On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:19:51 -0700 (PDT) southernstar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I was aware that on occasion individuals are welcome to post work > wanted ads, but I have some specific questions about how I can > actually get some short contract work here and there, since: > > * I don't have a resume or CV and it would be useless to write one > (nothing to put in it)* I have no commercial experience > * I'm not quite sure what sort of examples I can give to get someone > interested in offering me a short contract to build up some experience > with before I look for a permanent job. > > I'm a student and don't have any money anyway, so I can't very well > travel to work on someone's premesis - I live in a remote/rural part > of Australia. It looks like it could be a tough job to get telecommute > contracts for short jobs (one or two scripts at a time) especially for > someone like me who really doesn't have much to show, except for some > example scripts which I can put together in an archive that can be > downloaded by a potential employer, I guess. > > Does anyone have any advice for me, especially if you are hiring for > your own company or if you're a programmer who was once in my > situation? > > I have my own software company by the way, and it's possible I can > look for sub-contract work. Again, I'm not sure where to start. I'm > happy starting as an individual programmer being hired for short > contracts, and I can build my way up to sub contracting my whole > company for work, and it would be valuable experience before I take > that step anyway. > > Thanks heaps! :) > > -- > James >
