OK, so let's talk about freelancing now, freelancing is going to be one of the things that I recommend
that you do after you get started with doing some bug bounty hunting.
Maybe you've got some experience with that and now you're ready to get to the next level and actually
do some freelancing for clients.
And one of the best things about freelancing is that you get to work with clients that are actively
looking for services.
Right, that are actively looking for your services versus having to go out and find them yourself.
So basically, as a freelancer, you go on various platforms and you sign up as a freelancer and companies
will go there and they'll place different jobs, different types of projects.
And then you will essentially bid on the project as a freelancer.
And so as a freelancer, you're essentially self-employed versus actually working for a company right
where you are an employee.
This is where you have more leniency.
You have more, I guess, freedom to be able to work on your own work from anywhere because you don't
have typically set hours, but you do have certain milestones, certain deadlines.
So as long as you're staying on track, you're getting your work done.
More often than not, the employer's right.
The actual clients don't really care as far as when you're doing the work, as long as it's getting
done.
And one of the best ways to start with freelancing is to apply for small jobs, small gigs, not anything
that's in the several thousands.
I would say maybe, you know, 50, 100, 200 dollars just to start getting some experience and start
getting some reviews and start building up your profile.
Right.
Because a lot of times in the very beginning, you're not going to have very much credibility on the
platform.
And so the best way that you can start gaining that credibility is to really start doing some jobs at
a very low cost.
Even if you know that you have, you know, a lot more skill set than a lot of these jobs are requiring.
Take on these small, really simple jobs and just knock them out of the ballpark and get those reviews
and get that credibility on the platform.
Because ultimately, what you want to do is get that experience up, get your profile up right.
And get those testimonials so that you can increase your hourly rate.
Perhaps in the very beginning, your hourly rate may be a little bit lower, but then as you progress,
you get more experience, you get more projects under your belt, you'll be able to increase your hourly
rate moving forward.
Now, one of the most important things here when you're applying to jobs as far as a freelance gigs,
to always make sure that your application is catered and specific to the project that you are applying
for.
Because if you're just sending over a boilerplate template about your experience, what you've done,
and this is that that's just going to put you into the pile of everybody else.
Right.
Perhaps you can mention your past experience, your past work and how it relates to the specific job
requirements and project that the actual client is looking for.
Right.
Because you always want to make it about them.
They don't necessarily care that you have X experience.
You've done this.
You've done that as far as for your application, because there's going to be probably 10 to 20 different
applicants that have the same level of background as you.
Right.
But what's really going to make the difference here?
Right.
A lot of the times you actually spending the time to cater your application to the exact job description
so that you're not just, you know, sending over boilerplate template that typically is going to just
get, you know, thrown into the junk pile.
Because even myself, when I'm looking for freelancers, I always look to see which one of them have
actually read the job description and have responded to the actual application and have responded to
the job with a very specific outline or very specific application that talks about what I'm looking
for.
Because if somebody's just sending a boilerplate template, it's going to automatically put them at
the bottom of the list.
And so your application should always indicate that rate should always show that you've read the job
description.
You maybe even perhaps give some recommendations as to what they can improve in that application is
something that you can really make yourself stand out.
That's the biggest thing here.
OK, so now we're going to go to my computer and I'm going to walk you through several different websites
and resources where you can sign up as a freelancer.
So let's go to my computer now.
OK, so the first resource here is outport dotcom.
And you can see here just by typing in cybersecurity, I have a bunch of different cybersecurity professionals
and you can see their ranges here.
Their hourly rate from 65, 85, this one to almost two hundred, 70, right, 87 and so pretty much
all you need to do here is go to our dotcom and sign up as a freelancer.
You'll fill out the application and then you'll answer some questions and then you'll sign up as a cybersecurity
consultant.
And then what happens is, as you notice, these guys have different hourly rates and it all depends
on their experience.
Like, for example, this guy here, he has six K of actual dollars earned and so he has 85.
And it doesn't always correlate as far as the funds that they've earned, the revenue that they've earned
doesn't always correlate with the actual hourly base.
However, for the most part, you'll notice that the more experienced these guys have, the higher ratings,
that they will increase their actual hourly rate.
This guy here, you can see two hundred and twenty dollars an hour.
And I'm sure you know, he's well worth that because companies are paying him those wages.
Right.
So I definitely recommend you check out our Balkam.
The next one here is a freelancer dot com.
And this one right here is probably number two.
As far as for freelancing next to Upworthy, you can come in here and sign up and essentially have specific
jobs here.
Let's say you want to have like a penetration gig set up.
If you want to have, like a information compliance or data compliance gig.
Right.
So freelancer dot com is number two.
Definitely recommend you come and check this out and you'll be able to look at the different types of
categories here and then fiber.
Fiber is also a great tool and a great resource for you to come in here and sign up as a freelancer
and start doing some gigs.
A lot of the things here are going to be a little bit lower cost, but it's still good for you to get
some experience and be able to showcase that even on your upward profile.
Right.
Perhaps you come in here and you do some that's just type in your cybersecurity.
Perhaps you come in here and you do some small gigs, you get some reviews, you can use those as leverage
as well for larger projects.
So cybersecurity expert advice.
So this guy provides expert advice policy.
See here.
Get those projects, let's look at what these guys have here, so let's go.
So this guy is more of a consultant here.
So what he does is he provides a consultation on an hourly basis and then this guy here does actually
just paper.
So, yeah, these are going to be kind of a one off gigs for fiber.
You're probably not going to find a lot of people here that offer a lot of different services for cyber
security.
Let me try penetration testing.
OK, so looks like there is some gigs in here, right?
A lot of these guys are doing I will teach you, I will do penetration test.
So there are some gigs here that you could set up.
Right.
And actually get some clients, get some experience.
And let's see what these guys got here.
I will perform.
OK, so this is a basic vulnerability assessment with a report.
Here's one of the report, here's testing, so, yeah, I mean, you can sign up on here.
The biggest thing is what I'm trying to get across is that you want to get some experience under your
belt, you want to get some reviews.
You can even take a picture of these reviews here and be able to use them on your upward profile or
perhaps on your website and be able to showcase that, you know what you're doing.
You've helped others and you've been able to successfully help them out.
Right.
And so now let's take a look at another one here, guru.com.
And this is another one like uptalk as well.
This is probably number three in terms of like the largest.
You got upward, you got freelancer dot com.
And so this is another one here where you can sign up as a freelancer.
And when you have a profile and all these different websites, you're going to have more of a chance
to get jobs because you're going to be on several different platforms.
And the more places you are, the more opportunities you're going to have to lend different gigs.
Right.
Because some businesses, some clients may be on guru, some may be on freelancers, dot com.
Right.
Some, you know, maybe on outbreaks.
And it all depends.
And I mean, you can put yourself in a better position to win, right.
And succeed.
That's going to ultimately work out in your favor.
And so the last one here is people per hour.
And this one, I believe, is based out of the U.K. And so there's a lot more European companies that
are on this one.
And as you can see here, there's quite a bit of freelancers and you can set up different gigs, you
can have specific projects and you can sign up as an actual freelancer and do very specific projects,
custom projects.
Right.
And so this is another resource for you to look at.
So that's going to be here for the freelancing section.
I want you to understand that this is going to be probably the next step that you take after you do
a little bit of bug bounty hunting.
You get some experience working with clients and you're able to actually go to these places where clients
are at and where they need your services.
OK, so that's going to be here for this one.
And we'll see you on the next one.