Over the last few years I have used a variety of agents and sites to find work. Here are my selection of tried and tested, and more importantly – trusted, ways to get work in the creative and digital industry in the UK.
Job recruiters for Creatives:
Job search sites for Creatives:
Unfortunately due to the number of electronic items the average geek, freelancer and employee travels around the world with, it’s hardly surprising sometimes these items get lost or stolen.
Whilst costs can be covered by either business or home insurance, it’s not much fun filing a police report and having to deal with file and data loss.
Now you may actually have the chance to track your Apple product, whether it’s an iPhone, Macbook or any Apple computer with isight built in there are some fantastic anti-theft software available to reunite you with your hardware.
Accurately locate your stolen Mac
Undercover uses advanced technology developed by Skyhook Wireless to locate your Mac based on Wi-Fi positioning. In addition, it also transmits network information, enabling their recovery center to accurately track and locate your stolen Mac within a range of 10-20 meters.
The software also sends screenshots of your stolen Mac at regular intervals. These screenshots will sooner or later reveal the thief’s identity (e.g. when chatting, reading and writing emails) making it much easier to work with the police in order to recover your Mac.
See who’s using your Mac
Undercover will transmit pictures of the thief and his surroundings every 6 minutes, making it even easier to identify the current user. It’s like having a private detective working for you.
MacBookPro recovered in only 3 days
Orbicule recently posted a story on their website about how a MacBookPro was recovered in just three days, thanks to the network information, iSight photos and screenshots (which captured the thief’s email address) provided by Undercover. If you or your users carry around expensive Mac portables, Undercover might be just the insurance policy you need.
The cost for this? £41 for up to 5 Macs..
Apple’s response to reporting a lost Apple product discussions.apple.com – Basically, there isn’t one, but the message is using the software here makes the chances of recovering your products much, much higher.
There is also a windows equivalent of this type of software, in case anyone you know may need this anti-theft protection at lojackforlaptops
Everyone has a list of essential applications for their Mac.
And to emphasize the “Free” in freelancer most of these that I’ve listed cost nothing, or at least free for the standard version.
If you’ve just got yourself a new Mac and totally clueless what to install, or if you are looking for alternatives for some applications you are currently using in your Mac, the following list might come in handy as a useful reference guide.
Some of these apps have been converted to iPhone apps to, which can work seamlessly with cloud based services.
Just a thought. As people like me are using Twitter more for business and networking (Facebook for friends btw).
The search on twitter is great as more companies and job boards are posting jobs on Twitter.
Like getting the first for breaking news and people’s thoughts on Twitter (which was fantastic over the U.S elections) you can do the same for work. Be the first to contact a future client and make their day as well as yours.
I like that this actually spans not just your local neighbourhood, by doing a twitter search means you are searching globally – within the ‘connected’ generation. Great for diversifying your work and client list, some thing that is cheap to achieve using tools like these and great for your experience and career prospects.
For example, the search for CSS Developer brings up 20 results, try searching for what you do.
You can even get these results sent to you as daily or weekly alerts, using tweetbeep.
A nice way of boosting work over the next few months 
What are your tools for finding work on the web?
This Excerpt is from Duct Marketing Blog:
Web people like to talk about clear and smooth businesses or web sites as those that are very simple for the visitor to navigate and experience. There are many places your business can fall down in this regard and all perform a marketing function, for good or bad.
So, here are some common places to look and make sure you are easy.
Are you easy:
This applies to you, whether just starting out or have been going for a few years – take a look at each point to see what you think you score highly for and those that you don’t.
People in business will lose a percentage of that business however successful they are, however good their service is, and however good their products are.
Changes in market trends are the main cause.. Today the current market trend being rumours around the big ‘R’ for recession.
Work can all too often take over our lives outside the office with various ways to ’stay connected’.
However, I encourage you to make your office hours more productive by offering the following relaxation techniques every geek can use.. try the following tips that I use, you may find they will allow you to see things differently and achieve your work/life goals more successfully and more effectively.
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