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OK, so let's talk about freelancing now, freelancing is going to be one of the things that I recommend

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that you do after you get started with doing some bug bounty hunting.

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Maybe you've got some experience with that and now you're ready to get to the next level and actually

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do some freelancing for clients.

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And one of the best things about freelancing is that you get to work with clients that are actively

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looking for services.

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Right, that are actively looking for your services versus having to go out and find them yourself.

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So basically, as a freelancer, you go on various platforms and you sign up as a freelancer and companies

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will go there and they'll place different jobs, different types of projects.

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And then you will essentially bid on the project as a freelancer.

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And so as a freelancer, you're essentially self-employed versus actually working for a company right

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where you are an employee.

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This is where you have more leniency.

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You have more, I guess, freedom to be able to work on your own work from anywhere because you don't

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have typically set hours, but you do have certain milestones, certain deadlines.

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So as long as you're staying on track, you're getting your work done.

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More often than not, the employer's right.

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The actual clients don't really care as far as when you're doing the work, as long as it's getting

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done.

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And one of the best ways to start with freelancing is to apply for small jobs, small gigs, not anything

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that's in the several thousands.

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I would say maybe, you know, 50, 100, 200 dollars just to start getting some experience and start

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getting some reviews and start building up your profile.

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Right.

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Because a lot of times in the very beginning, you're not going to have very much credibility on the

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platform.

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And so the best way that you can start gaining that credibility is to really start doing some jobs at

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a very low cost.

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Even if you know that you have, you know, a lot more skill set than a lot of these jobs are requiring.

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Take on these small, really simple jobs and just knock them out of the ballpark and get those reviews

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and get that credibility on the platform.

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Because ultimately, what you want to do is get that experience up, get your profile up right.

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And get those testimonials so that you can increase your hourly rate.

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Perhaps in the very beginning, your hourly rate may be a little bit lower, but then as you progress,

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you get more experience, you get more projects under your belt, you'll be able to increase your hourly

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rate moving forward.

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Now, one of the most important things here when you're applying to jobs as far as a freelance gigs,

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to always make sure that your application is catered and specific to the project that you are applying

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for.

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Because if you're just sending over a boilerplate template about your experience, what you've done,

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and this is that that's just going to put you into the pile of everybody else.

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Right.

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Perhaps you can mention your past experience, your past work and how it relates to the specific job

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requirements and project that the actual client is looking for.

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Right.

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Because you always want to make it about them.

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They don't necessarily care that you have X experience.

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You've done this.

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You've done that as far as for your application, because there's going to be probably 10 to 20 different

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applicants that have the same level of background as you.

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Right.

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But what's really going to make the difference here?

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Right.

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A lot of the times you actually spending the time to cater your application to the exact job description

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so that you're not just, you know, sending over boilerplate template that typically is going to just

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get, you know, thrown into the junk pile.

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Because even myself, when I'm looking for freelancers, I always look to see which one of them have

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actually read the job description and have responded to the actual application and have responded to

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the job with a very specific outline or very specific application that talks about what I'm looking

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for.

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Because if somebody's just sending a boilerplate template, it's going to automatically put them at

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the bottom of the list.

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And so your application should always indicate that rate should always show that you've read the job

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description.

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You maybe even perhaps give some recommendations as to what they can improve in that application is

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something that you can really make yourself stand out.

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That's the biggest thing here.

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OK, so now we're going to go to my computer and I'm going to walk you through several different websites

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and resources where you can sign up as a freelancer.

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So let's go to my computer now.

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OK, so the first resource here is outport dotcom.

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And you can see here just by typing in cybersecurity, I have a bunch of different cybersecurity professionals

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and you can see their ranges here.

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Their hourly rate from 65, 85, this one to almost two hundred, 70, right, 87 and so pretty much

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all you need to do here is go to our dotcom and sign up as a freelancer.

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You'll fill out the application and then you'll answer some questions and then you'll sign up as a cybersecurity

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consultant.

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And then what happens is, as you notice, these guys have different hourly rates and it all depends

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on their experience.

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Like, for example, this guy here, he has six K of actual dollars earned and so he has 85.

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And it doesn't always correlate as far as the funds that they've earned, the revenue that they've earned

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doesn't always correlate with the actual hourly base.

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However, for the most part, you'll notice that the more experienced these guys have, the higher ratings,

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that they will increase their actual hourly rate.

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This guy here, you can see two hundred and twenty dollars an hour.

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And I'm sure you know, he's well worth that because companies are paying him those wages.

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So I definitely recommend you check out our Balkam.

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The next one here is a freelancer dot com.

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And this one right here is probably number two.

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As far as for freelancing next to Upworthy, you can come in here and sign up and essentially have specific

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jobs here.

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Let's say you want to have like a penetration gig set up.

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If you want to have, like a information compliance or data compliance gig.

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Right.

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So freelancer dot com is number two.

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Definitely recommend you come and check this out and you'll be able to look at the different types of

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categories here and then fiber.

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Fiber is also a great tool and a great resource for you to come in here and sign up as a freelancer

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and start doing some gigs.

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A lot of the things here are going to be a little bit lower cost, but it's still good for you to get

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some experience and be able to showcase that even on your upward profile.

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Right.

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Perhaps you come in here and you do some that's just type in your cybersecurity.

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Perhaps you come in here and you do some small gigs, you get some reviews, you can use those as leverage

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as well for larger projects.

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So cybersecurity expert advice.

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So this guy provides expert advice policy.

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See here.

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Get those projects, let's look at what these guys have here, so let's go.

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So this guy is more of a consultant here.

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So what he does is he provides a consultation on an hourly basis and then this guy here does actually

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just paper.

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So, yeah, these are going to be kind of a one off gigs for fiber.

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You're probably not going to find a lot of people here that offer a lot of different services for cyber

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security.

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Let me try penetration testing.

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OK, so looks like there is some gigs in here, right?

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A lot of these guys are doing I will teach you, I will do penetration test.

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So there are some gigs here that you could set up.

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And actually get some clients, get some experience.

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And let's see what these guys got here.

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I will perform.

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OK, so this is a basic vulnerability assessment with a report.

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Here's one of the report, here's testing, so, yeah, I mean, you can sign up on here.

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The biggest thing is what I'm trying to get across is that you want to get some experience under your

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belt, you want to get some reviews.

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You can even take a picture of these reviews here and be able to use them on your upward profile or

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perhaps on your website and be able to showcase that, you know what you're doing.

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You've helped others and you've been able to successfully help them out.

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Right.

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And so now let's take a look at another one here, guru.com.

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And this is another one like uptalk as well.

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This is probably number three in terms of like the largest.

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You got upward, you got freelancer dot com.

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And so this is another one here where you can sign up as a freelancer.

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And when you have a profile and all these different websites, you're going to have more of a chance

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to get jobs because you're going to be on several different platforms.

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And the more places you are, the more opportunities you're going to have to lend different gigs.

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Because some businesses, some clients may be on guru, some may be on freelancers, dot com.

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Right.

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Some, you know, maybe on outbreaks.

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And it all depends.

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And I mean, you can put yourself in a better position to win, right.

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And succeed.

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That's going to ultimately work out in your favor.

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And so the last one here is people per hour.

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And this one, I believe, is based out of the U.K. And so there's a lot more European companies that

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are on this one.

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And as you can see here, there's quite a bit of freelancers and you can set up different gigs, you

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can have specific projects and you can sign up as an actual freelancer and do very specific projects,

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custom projects.

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Right.

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And so this is another resource for you to look at.

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So that's going to be here for the freelancing section.

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I want you to understand that this is going to be probably the next step that you take after you do

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a little bit of bug bounty hunting.

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You get some experience working with clients and you're able to actually go to these places where clients

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are at and where they need your services.

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OK, so that's going to be here for this one.

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And we'll see you on the next one.