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Now let's go over a study I found that is very applicable to becoming a freelance developer and looking

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at the overall trajectory of where this industry is going.

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And that study interviewed a bunch of us students that were aged 16 to 23 and over half of them, 58%

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exactly said that coding skills are as vital to them as learning foreign language skills.

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That's very important because you're starting to see that coding, developing engineering is a growing

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industry and it's not slowing down any time soon.

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And even the young population is learning that and they're starting to apply themselves to provide those

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skills in the future.

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35% that cannot currently code say that the lack of the educational access to learn those coding skills

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is the primary barrier holding them back.

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And 50% of those students said that they plan on learning a computer programming language at some point.

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So it's no secret that more people are catching on to the demand of the coding and the developing industry,

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and they're starting to apply themselves in learning those skills.

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Now let's discuss the freelance developer sales process.

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I'm going to lay down a brief overview of the freelance developer sales process as well as what we will

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be covering in the future lessons coming up in this section.

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It all starts with learning to code.

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Of course, you're not going to be able to get a job, build a profile, or build your resume if you

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don't have that foundation to build it around.

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So you do need to figure out what skill set of being a developer makes sense for you.

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We will go over some of the top different skill sets as it relates to being a developer in the next

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lesson.

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So stay tuned for that.

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But that is your first step.

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You need to get some understanding, some real world experience in and work on some projects so you

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actually have that skill set under your belt.

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Now, of course, you're always going to be advancing it, but that is the first step.

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After that, that's when it's time to build your resume and to build your freelance profiles.

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This is where you take everything that you've learned your experience, and then you bundle it up into

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an attractive resume or profile because that is going to be what different clients and companies see

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when you do the next few steps.

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After that, you are going to find jobs.

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This is where you are going on different freelancing websites and job boards, which we will also discuss

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in much more detail.

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And that is all about finding the right jobs or the right clients that make sense for you based on your

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skill set.

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Once you have found a job that you want to apply to.

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It's all about sending a proposal.

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If it is a freelance project or if it's a remote job or a normal working job, you would actually send

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an application out.

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But a lot of those are very similar and it's going to include your resume, your profile, a cover letter

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and other things that we will go over as well.

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Lastly, once you send that proposal or that job application out and the client or the company is interested

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in interviewing you, it's up to you to nail that interview, to prepare for it, to be ready for it,

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and then to go in there and to crush the interview and land that job.

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I'll see you in the next lesson.