Freelancer: How Do You Promote Your Skill - Survey Report

Freelancing is a very popular job model today. Since information technology is growing very rapidly this model of work becomes very easy to live. Some people prefer to work as a freelancer for several benefits. Not dependent on an agency and working hours can be arranged itself to be the main reason some people choose to be a freelancer.

Behind the many advantages of being a freelancer, this work model also has quite a lot of challenges. One is looking for a client, without the client, freelancers can not make much money. In order to gain clients, freelancers need expertise to promote their services. Therefore, at this time Jakpat survey tried to gather some opinions of our panel who works as a freelancer. At the beginning, we did scanning of 500 respondents, and obtained 171 respondents among them who work as freelancers.

In this survey, we got most of respondents work in online selling, while at the second position is IT / Web Developer/ prgrammer. The majority of them claimed to receive work from within the country while who said take the job from both, within and outside country only 7.6% of them.

According to the topic, we asked the panel about how they promote their expertise. We made question with multiple answer, we asked the panel chose whichever answer that suits them. And the majority of respondents promote their expertise through a friend and colleague in the mouth to mouth (71.35%), in addition, social media was also a way that has been chosen by the respondents (63.16%). It is indeed due to the current social media very accessible and influential in the dissemination of information. However, our findings further said that respondents who claimed to always upload the results of their work to a personal website or social media is only 4%.

Furthermore, we asked the panel to choose from the many options which media they use to upload their portfolios. Apparently, Facebook selected more than 50% of respondents.

Currently there are several freelancing sites. On the website, freelancers can meet people who need to employ freelancers in accordance with their expertise. However, our findings say that 7 out of 10 respondents do not use such a website to show their skills. While the rest use Freelancer.co.id (20:47%), Sribulancer.com (9.94%), project.co.id (4:09%).
Even 90% of the panel claimed to have not received a job offer from such a website.

For more detail you can download XLS report at the button below (bahasa). JAKPAT report consists of 3 parts which are 1) Respondent Profile, 2) Crosstabulation for each question and 3) Raw Data. Respondent profile shows you demographic profiles ( gender,age range, location by province, and monthly spending). Cross tabulation enables you to define different demographicsegment preference on each answer.