Top 12 Job Boards for the Freelance Designer in Need of Fresh Work

posted by Joel R. under Business on Jun 23rd, 2010 with 1 Comments

23 Jun

The resources for a freelance jobs below if used correctly can help you land various jobs and gain experience from them as well. We all have to start somewhere, and this is a great starting point for a designer/developer who's thinking about going freelance.

Freelance Switch

FreelanceSwitch is a nip-tight community of freelancers in various categories on a global scale. When I began to freelance I landed my first job through FreelanceSwitch, and it allowed me to gain valuable insight and [BLOCKED] time. Clients post job ads for free, however, if you're looking for work there is a small monthly subscription fee of $7 billable through PayPal. It's worth the try and most clients respond whether you've landed the project or not.

Authentic Jobs

Authentic Jobs is a targeted destination for web & creative professionals, and the companies seeking to hire them.

Krop

Krop is a Job Board and career resource website for creative professionals. Whether you’re looking for job, or hunting top-notch talent, Krop’s simple and powerful tools are geared towards connecting the worlds brightest minds with the best companies.

99 Designs

99designs is one of the largest marketplaces for crowdsourced graphic design. They manage to connect 71,349 passionate designers from around the globe with small businesses who need design projects completed. 99designs was started by designers for designers.

Fresh Web Jobs

FreshWebJobs.com is a job board with a declared goal of bringing together companies and professionals who take interests in latest web technologies, web standards and web design trends.

vWorker

vWorker.com (formerly RentaCoder) is a dynamic online marketplace where 140,694 employers hire and manage 291,528 virtual workers to assist them in business and personal projects. Virtual workers span every country across the globe and every imaginable expertise, including computer programming, writing, graphic design, marketing and many more. vWorker.com offers the safety features and money-back/payment guarantees that allow thousands of these transactions to be done succesfully every month.

CrowdSpring

CrowdSpring connects various designers from around the world with prospective clients. The way it works is a client brings out a new project, then several designers submit their work and the top 5 are awarded a cash prize. The client will also select an overall winner that will be awarded the full prize and the possibility of their design being used.

AllDevJobs

AllDevJobs is a job board for designers and developers seeking the best [BLOCKED] around the world. We strive to provide only the top jobs in development to the most targeted group of creative and technical professionals we possibly can.

DesignCrowd

DesignCrowd is a graphic design marketplace that gives creative people opportunities and helps business get the best design possible. DesignCrowd aspires to innovate. There are millions of creative people in the world and all they need is opportunity.

Coroflot

Coroflot is one of the largest, most established, most diverse pool of professional creative portfolios in the world. Coroflot's job board is the largest and most active site on the internet specifically [BLOCKED] and other creative professionals.

Your Web Job

Your Web Job is a hub for job-seeking web professionals — project managers, copywriters, SEO experts, usability folk, social media gurus, and yes, even designers and developers — and for those who want to hire them.

Smashing Job Board

Smashing Jobs is the Smashing Magazine Job Board with a wide range of companies looking for talented designers and developers. Searching for jobs is free and it's also easy to apply.

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Dominic Louis said Aug 2nd, 2010

Excellent.... Even they are offering work or not... but all site designs are great.... need to learn the themes.... Thanks :)

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