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How to find freelance administrative work

If you have good office management and computer sills, you might consider looking for freelance administrative work. As a general category, this includes word processing, data entry, calendar or appointment planning, basic billing and other administrative support tasks. If you have administrative experience, then all the better for showing prospective employers that you are knowledgeable, skilled and reliable.

Your first step to finding freelance administrative work is to craft a list of services. Write something up yourself, then research online and in newspaper classified ads to get ideas about services to add to your list or other ways to word your offerings. The goal is to present a comprehensive list of services that leaves no questions in the reader’s mind.

Once you have this list, you can add your hourly fees. If you’ve unsure about what your rates should be, call several local temp agencies to learn what they charge their clients. You can also use the salaries advertised in the newspaper as a guild—simply divide the annual salary into an hourly rate.

You’ll also need a current resume. Even if you go through temp agencies or Web sites to find work, having both a resume and a list of services will help you look professional and easily fill out all the forms and paperwork.

There are many sources for finding work. You many want to target one source at a time, or make up lists of companies from all sources and start with a few from each. Either way, you will be making lots of phone calls and visiting lots of local businesses to make your pitch.

You may talk to any previous employers and let them know you are freelancing. Inform the human resources or temp workers. If you are working now, consider starting your freelance business on the side and working slowly toward independence. You may even be able to get freelance work from your company.

You may also do some research at your local library, the chamber of commerce and through the local paper to target small businesses that might need occasional or ongoing part-time work. Small operations such as landscaping, construction, food or catering and painting are sometimes too small to pay for a full-time office helper and too busy to do the work themselves. These companies could use someone in the office for a few hours a week or a monthly billing session.

No matter where you get your work, remember that your performance will impact whether a company wants to hire you again and recommend you to other people. Work-of-mouth is an important resource for getting work, so make the best of any work and networking opportunities.

Dialogues /monologues:

1、 Once, everyday brought new challenges and experiences. Now, As far as your job’s concerned, you’ve been there, seen it and done it too.

As far as… concerned：就……而言。如：

As far as we’re concerned you can go whenever you want.

就我們而言，隨時想走都可以走。

2、My experience it that if you have a control of several languages, then you put it in, you put that

to use only occasionally—but the occasion is often a highly critical one!

put sth in 花時間(精力)做某事。如：

Thank you for all the hard work you’ve put in.——謝謝你的這一切努力。

全句翻譯：我的經驗是如果你確實已經掌握了幾種語言，也要花很多時間去練習，因為在某些場合你會用到這些語言——而這些場合通常都是至關重要的!

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怎樣找到行政方面的自由職業

如果你有很強辦公室管理能力和電腦技術，也許可以考慮找一份行政管理方面的自由職業。根據一般分類，這種工作包括：文字處理，數據輸入，制定日程表或者安排會面，開賬單或者是其他支持性質的行政事務。如果你有行政管理的工作經驗，能向未來的雇主展示你是有知識有技巧，并且可靠的那就更好了。

要找一份自由職業性質的行政管理工作，第一步是要列一張包含服務內容的清單，首先自己寫一些，然后在網上或是報紙小廣告上找找，看還有什么可以添加的服務內容，或者是用文字把自己的能力和所能做的事情表達出來。這樣做的目的是要做一張一目了然的清單，不要讓看清單的人心存疑問。

清單做好之后你可以在上面加上自己每小時想要多少工錢。如果你不確定自己處在哪個標準，可以打電話去當地的臨時事務咨詢所問問看他們收取客戶多少錢。你也可以參照報紙上的薪水建議——只需要簡單地把薪水換算成小時費率就可以了。

你還需要一份現在的簡歷。即使你是去臨時工作事務所的網站上找工作，有簡歷和清單也會使你看上去很專業，并且能使你很快就能填完所有的表格和書面材料。

你可以從很多地方找工作。也許你每次以一種渠道為目標，或者把各種渠道打聽到的公司列下來，從其中一些入手。無論是這兩種方法中的哪一種，都需要你打很多電話，并且不停地去各個當地的公司推銷自己。

你可以跟以前的任何雇主交談，讓他們知道你現在從事自由職業。通知人力資源部門，因為不管是自由職業者還是臨時員工的工作都是他們安排的。如果你現在有工作也可以考慮做點自由職業作為副業，慢慢地走向獨立。你甚至可以從自己的公司接到活干。

你還可以在當地圖書館、商會做些調查，或者是通過當地的報紙來找一些小型的公司，這樣的公司可能會有不定時的兼職工作或者正有兼職工作。一些像搞園林美化、建設、食品和承辦酒席的小公司承擔不了全職的員工自己又忙不過來，這樣的公司可能會需要人手一個禮拜工作幾個小時或是一個月工作一段時間。

不管你是在哪找到的工作，都要記住你的表現，這關系到以后這家公司還會不會用你或者會不會推薦你去別的公司。口頭宣傳對于找工作是很重要的，所以要充分地利用每一次的工作和人際關系帶來的機會。