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Getting Started
Personal Qualities
Teamwork

Planning and Developing Your Career

Funding and Training
Commissioning
Developing Contacts and Networks
Promoting Your Work
Business Skills
Project Management
Writing a Business Plan
Further Reading
PDF Library
   
PDF Library

This page features links to all of the PDFs used throughout the site. The PDFs are in the order in which they appear in their section.

You can also download the entire Freelancing Manuscript, which includes all the Learning Materials, transcripts of all the Interview Material used, and all tasks, research projects and web research.

Task 1 - Your Key Qualities and Motivating Factors
Task 2 - Have you got what it takes?
Task 3 - Business Skills
Task 4 - Charging for your services
Research Project 1 - Researching your ideal role
Research Project 2 - Writing and Presenting Your Ideas
Research Project 3 - Writing the Business Plan

Task Icon Task 1 - Your Key Qualities and Motivating Factors
Download and print out the Task 1 worksheet (395Kb PDF)

Task 1 is designed to help you achieve an insight into what is important to you and what motivates you to achieve your very best, and assist you in researching the jobs and roles in which you would flourish.

Task Icon Task 2 - Have You Got What it Takes?
Download and print out the Task 2 worksheet (647Kb PDF)

Task 2 is designed to help you evaluate and audit your capabilities and allow you to identify the areas where you will need to seek further advice or training.

Task Icon Task 3 - Business Skills
Download and print out the Task 3 worksheet (169Kb PDF)

This task helps you to identify your skills gaps. The web research below will help you to develop a strategy for addressing them.

Task Icon Task 4 - Charging for Your Services
Download and print out the Task 4 worksheet (289Kb PDF)

This task enables you to calculate exactly what a service costs to run and allows you to calculate a rate of pay for charging clients.

Research Icon Research Project 1 - Researching Your Ideal Role
Download and print out the Research Project 1 instruction sheet (173Kb PDF)

This first Research Project will build upon your findings from Tasks 1 and 2, asking you to research in greater detail your ideal role within a specific company, programme or product.

Research Icon Research Project 2 - Writing and Presenting Your Ideas
Download and print out the Research Project 2 instruction sheet (168Kb PDF)

This Research Project asks you to develop an idea for a funding application or for a company presentation, and to use the links above to research the organisation best suited to your idea.

Research Icon Research Project 3 - Writing the Business Plan
Download and print out the Research Project 3 instruction sheet (291Kb PDF)

This final Research Project guides you through writing your Business Plan, and utilises the information you have gathered in all of the previous tasks and research projects.