Just a few minutes ago, I went through an email sent to me on available freelance writing jobs. They had some common features. Within the area (e.g. Boston, Atlanta, Orange County etc. etc.) and mid-career (2+ years) to experienced. What all they share in common also was: resume/curriculum vitae and portfolio.
I’m going to have to side track for a while. I just finished reading Zamri Mohamad’s Cari Duit Cara Mudah Sebagai Penulis Bebas and nothing in there mentioned of a resume! I do not blame him. At the same time, I am reading Robert Bly’s Secrets of a Freelance Writer - How to Make $100,000 a Year or More. The focus of the two books are different: Zamri focuses on “traditional” freelance writing while Bly focused on freelance writing including copywriting. Even the tone of the two authors are different when approaching the same issue. Zamri’s tone was more leisurely. His book is about how to earn easy money by writing. Bly treated freelance as a profession, which includes information on resume and portfolio.
A new question arise: how do I prepare a C.V./resume for a freelance writing job? Yeah, I’ve had some share of writing. Urm… That would include the research paper I submitted and presented at the 2005 National Student’s Conference. Did another research paper on Federalism and Devolution for my BEL360 while I was back in Pre-Law. Other than that, a series of assignments and projects. And, how can I forget, the blogs. These papers and assignments then constitute my portfolio, I assume.
I guess more research is needed in this context. Google, here I come!!
