This course is recognized by the National Skill Development Corporation, a PPP under the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship of the Government of India. You will receive a certificate cobranded by NSDC and Skill India on successful completion.
Key Highlights
- Diverse Professional Opportunities: Learn to build a profile that opens doors to freelancing, content writing, and virtual assistant roles with startups, SMEs, and top executives globally.
- Broad Skill Application: Suitable for various backgrounds, not limited to tech or legal fields. Skills taught are highly sought after internationally.
- Flexible Lifestyle: Equip yourself to escape the traditional office setting, allowing you to work as a freelancer from anywhere in the world.
- Attractive Freelancer Profile Creation: Guidance on crafting in-demand profiles that attract fast-growing startups and busy executives, potentially earning $10-20 per hour.
- Achievable Learning Commitment: Commit just 6 months and 2 hours a day to gain valuable skills. Proficiency in English and knowledge of a foreign language enhance your prospects.
- Certification: Earn a recognized certificate from the National Skill Development Corporation and Skill India upon course completion and testing.
- Versatile Job Outcomes: Options for full-time remote jobs, part-time work, or freelance assignments post-course.
Introduction
Provided by Skill Arbitrage in collaboration with NSDC and Skill India.
- Target Audience: Ideal for students and recent graduates seeking financial independence.
- Common Beliefs: Challenges the notion that earning without a professional degree during studies is unattainable.
- Educational Gap: Addresses the lack of practical skills in traditional education that are necessary for financial independence.
- Job Market Limitations: Highlights the scarcity of local opportunities for non-specialized graduates.
- New Work Environment: Emphasizes the evolving nature of the workplace, including the rise of remote work and virtual collaboration.
- Global Opportunities: Encourages tapping into international job markets, transcending local employment barriers.
- Skill Development: Focuses on acquiring in-demand skills relevant to today's global market.
- Building Online Profiles: Guides on creating effective online profiles to connect with international clients.
- Success Stories: Showcases successful students who have secured global clients, from the USA to Singapore.
- Course Objective: Prepares students to leverage digital tools for career success in a borderless professional world.
Learning objectives of this course
- Profile and Platform Mastery: Learn high-demand tasks, optimize your profile to attract startups and professionals, and navigate different freelance platforms effectively.
- Business Skills Development: Master competitive rate negotiation and proposal writing to outpace competitors.
- Productivity and Time Management: Develop strategies to efficiently balance work and personal life, maximizing earnings without compromising time with loved ones.
- Job Sourcing and Social Media Utilization: Enhance your ability to find and secure job opportunities through strategic use of social media and learn to build a strong track record on platforms like Upwork and Fiverr.
Imagine
- Role Impact: Assist business leaders and organizations by managing their schedules, creating effective content for blogs, guest posts, and social media to help them grow and operate more efficiently.
- Client Engagement: Support CEOs and senior executives with their social media management, business communications, content creation, outreach, and branding—tasks they value highly.
- Flexible Payment: Receive timely payments directly to your account, regardless of where your clients are located.
- No Special Degrees Required: You don’t need any advanced degrees or complex skills to succeed.
- Remote Work Flexibility: Work from anywhere in the world, allowing you the freedom to travel as you please.
Is This Possible? Absolutely.
- Freelance Opportunities: You can work remotely as a freelancer in roles like virtual assistant or content strategist, paving the way for a dream lifestyle and further career opportunities.
- Skills and Profile Building: Success requires creating a strong online profile on the right platforms and learning fundamental skills such as blog writing to help startups and brands increase their visibility and streamline their operations.
- Training Program: We offer a 6-month training program requiring just 2 hours of your daily commitment.
Minimum Qualifications
- Good English communication skills.
- Proficiency in using a computer and the internet.
- No restrictions on age, location, or experience.
Who should take this course?
- Students and Graduates: Ideal for college students seeking financial independence and graduates without a professional degree who are struggling to find well-paying jobs.
- Low Income Earners: Suitable for anyone with good English communication skills earning less than Rs 50,000 per month.
- Remote Area Residents: Designed for those living in small towns or villages with limited local job opportunities.
- Home-Based Workers: Perfect for parents of young children or individuals with medical conditions who need to work part-time from home.
- Lifestyle Changers: Great for professionals looking to leave behind a traditional office environment to work remotely as digital nomads.
What is the career potential after doing this course?
- Versatile Job Roles: Work as a virtual assistant, content strategist, marketing manager, social media manager, blogger, or business developer.
- Industry Opportunities: Access roles in sales, marketing, PR, operations, and customer service across startups and organizations in India, the US, and globally.
- Higher Pay: Secure remote jobs in developed countries that typically offer better compensation than local jobs in developing nations.
- Startup Readiness: Gain skills for entry-level roles in Indian startups.
What is unique about this course?
- Practical Training: Gain hands-on experience creating standout profiles for remote and freelance jobs, guided by experts who've helped thousands succeed.
- Skill Highlighting: Learn to showcase high-demand tasks in your profile, ensuring you're job-ready from the start.
- Freelance Platform Guidance: Receive support in listing your gigs on various freelance platforms effectively.
- Compelling Proposals: Master the art of crafting attractive proposals that make clients choose you over competitors.
- Competitive Rate Negotiation: Develop skills to set and negotiate rates that ensure you always stay ahead in the market.
- Comprehensive Placement Support: Extensive help with job sourcing, proposal writing, using social media for job hunting, building a strong track record on platforms like Upwork and Fiverr, and interview preparation.
- Fast-Track Career Progression: With dedication, be ready to launch a rewarding and well-paid career within six months.
Money-back guarantee
If you take this course, follow it diligently for a month, attend all the classes, do all the exercises but still do not find value in it, or not able to understand or follow it or not find it good for any reason, we will refund the entire course fee to you. It is a 100% money-back guarantee with only one condition, you must pursue it properly for a month. If you don’t find it valuable after that, get your entire money back.
Training Methodology
Online 24/7 access
Unlimited access to basic study materials through an online learning management system, accessible via Android and iOS apps
Hard Copy Study Material
Hard copy modules couriered directly to your address.
Practical Exercises
Weekly assignments consisting of two practical exercises, with personalized written feedback on your submissions.
Live Online Classes
Interactive, video-based online classes that allow for questions, screen sharing, and real-time feedback based on weekly exercises.
Convenient Class timings
Classes scheduled outside regular work hours, typically on Sunday afternoons or between 8-9 pm on weekdays.
Live Doubt Clearing
Opportunity to resolve queries live or through online forums for continuous learning support.
Placement Assistance
Support in securing job and internship opportunities, along with guidance on freelancing opportunities.
Certification
This course is recognized by the National Skill Development Corporation, a PPP under the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship of the Government of India. You will receive a certificate cobranded by NSDC and Skill India on successful completion.
This is how the certificate from NSDC and Skill India will look as per the current applicable format (may change as per the approval authorities):
Highlighting Inspirational Journeys/Testimonials
Bhavana Sharma, a December 2023 batch graduate, transformed her basic digital skills through our Remote Freelancing and profile building course. Within three months, she secured a US proofreading job, advanced to project coordinator for a Canadian medtech company, and landed her first freelance project as a Virtual Assistant for a Chennai-based client. Earning USD 3 per hour, with a planned increase to USD 5, her journey has been transformative, making her a confident, and skilled professional.
Bhavana Sharma
Paul Banerjee (February 2024 Batch), joined our course in Remote Freelancing and Profile Building and became a successful freelancer since then. He got his first opportunity with a US client for writing personal statement essays, then he got another job from a US Client as a digital marketing specialist. Initially he quoted for a rate of $10.00 per hour and managed to clock 16 hours for the duration of the project along with the testimonials from the client.
Paul Banerjee
Online Faculty
Syllabus
Introduction to Freelancing
Understanding the world of freelancing and how it works
Big opportunities arising for freelancers and how much they can earn?
Best Freelancing Platforms and deciding which are best for you
How to decide and quote competitive rates on freelance platforms
Starting small with big goals
Variety of work available for students and graduates without a professional degree and how to choose your niche as a freelancer
Checklist of requirements when you create your profile on freelance platforms
How to decide freelance is for you?
Upwork
How to create a winning profile on Upwork?
How to check profiles of your competitors on Upwork?
How to Update your profile based on jobs you apply for?
How much time should you spend on Upwork and what should your strategy be?
How to apply for/ find jobs on Upwork?
List of terms for foreign freelance/ remote work
Importance of testimonials on Upwork, getting them and using them to build credibility
How to create a Specialized Profiles in addition to your generalised profile on Upwork?
Using Connects to send proposals on Upwork and how to get more
How to set-up a Payment Method on Upwork?
How to set payment milestones on Upwork
How to use Upwork Desktop App?
Fiverr
Fiverr- A GIG based Platform
Introduction to Fiverr
How to create a profile?
What is GIG? ; Difference between profile and GIG ; Types of GIGs on Fiverr
How to check impressions and clicks?
How to check Buyer requests?
How to Communicate with Buyers? And how to send custom offers to Buyers?
How to deliver work on Fiverr?
How to Optimise
Tutor Me
Introduction to Tutor Me
How to create profile on Tutor Me
People Per Hour
How to register on People Per Hour
Optimization of People Per Hour account
Guru
How to register on Guru?
Optimization of Guru account
Pepper Content
How to register and work on Pepper Content
How to use LinkedIn and Twitter to get work directly from social media
How to use Linked In and Facebook for freelancing opportunities?
How to find jobs on LinkedIn?
How to create list of your target market
How to approach clients through Social Media
How to approach International companies / Startups for remote freelancing work
How to find opportunities of Freelancing through Various Job portals? Eg- Indeed, Simply Hired
How to reach out to Silicon Valley startups
Notes on how to reach out to Silicon Valley startups
How to network effectively with Silicon Valley startups online as a student/ fresh graduate and get them to pay you for work
How to use Twitter as a student/ graduate and get clients
Additional Resources- Recorded sessions
Virtual talk with the victorious - a freelancer's roadmap
Network = Networth
Top platforms for finding freelance paralegal work online
How can students earn money? | Ramanuj Mukherjee
Course Plan
Standard
₹ 63000
incl. of all charges
Instructor led course with online live classes
Online exams (give exams as per your convenience on given time slots)
1 online live class/ week (24 weeks)
2 practical exercises per week (24 weeks - total 48 Exercises)
Hard copy certificate (by courier)
Printed study material (by courier)
6 content writing assignments (optional)
Get digital access to entire study material
Access on LMS, Android & iOS app
Instructor-feedback on assignments
Doubt-clearing on LMS & classes
Placement assistance for internship, jobs and referrals CV enhancement
Training for writing and publishing articles, making profile and taking work on freelance platforms, etc
Access to updated content online for 3 years
Doubt-clearing within 24 hours