Freelancing and Bangladesh:Freelancing can be the next big thing in Bangladesh economy and reduce unemployment problem of Bangladesh. Day by day in Bangladesh number of freelancer increasing because of working independently, be your own boss, better money than local work. But still there is some problem in these sectors which we need to remove if we want to success on this sector and reduce unemployment problem from Bangladesh.

Present problem now as bellow:

Lack of proper training. Lack of English. Lack of internet connection, electricity at rural area of Bangladesh. Lack of knowledge on freelancing/outsourcing. Lack of women involvement at this sector. Financial problem.

Present Status of Bangladeshi freelancer:

Bangladeshi freelancers are working on various freelancing sites like upwork.com (Odesk + Elance), freelancer.com, 99designs.com, guru.com, staff.com, Fiver.com etc. On Basis of upwork report now total registered user from Bangladesh at upwork.com are 95000 but active users who are 45000 that means 45% people create account but doing no activity and now rank of Bangladesh is 12 where at 2012 Bangladesh was 3rd. This is why we create Freelancer association of Bangladesh to take action that are inactive and give better support to those who are active on various freelancing sites.

Motive of Freelancer association of Bangladesh:

Give various training on various skill for doing freelancing/outsourcing via various freelancing sites.

Better skill development by giving proper training. Create help centre at every district to help who are doing freelancing and who want to do

freelancing. Make strong community of freelancer where our main theme is “quality work never ends”. Organize various training continuous basis at every district of Bangladesh. Create perfect freelancer. Introduce new technology.

What type of work done by Bangladeshi freelancer?

Various type of project done by Bangladeshi freelancer Like: Data Entry, Personal / Virtual Assistant, Project Management, Web Research, Other - Admin Support, Lead Generation, Email & Marketing Automation, SEM - Search Engine Marketing, SEO - Search Engine Optimization, SMM - Social Media Marketing, Article & Blog Writing , Web Content, Other - Sales & Marketing etc.

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Programming and design related work like: Desktop Software Development, Ecommerce Development, Game Development, Mobile Development, Product Management, QA & Testing , Scripts & Utilities, Web Development, Web & Mobile Design, Other - Software Development.

Freelancer association of Bangladesh will train on this entire topic on continuous basis. Also we will cover:

How to create account on freelancing sites. How to verify freelancing worker account with national id card. Basic English. How to write cover letter and answer of additional question. How to track hour and give report to client. How to communicate with client.

Look how many people from all over the world registered on freelancer.com and how many job posted today 24 Nov 2015:

Here is sample report of upwork.com for Bangladesh.

Source: http://masummultimedia.com/blog/2015/10/26/freelancing-marketplace-report-bangladesh-2015/

Bangladesh has already achieved good reputation on freelancing marketplace. About 96000 freelancers work on freelancing marketplace ( Upwork 2015 ) .

This post will help you to learn about freelancing marketplace report for Bangladesh 2015. This report is made based on Upwork marketplace.

Disclaimer: This report has some limitations. This is prepared based on Upwork ( Odesk-elance ) only. 6 divisions are covered. Getting very much accurate report is not possible because some freelancers work in multiple category. You can get a basic concept of Bangladeshi freelancers.

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Bangladesh freelancers by skill category

Bangladeshi freelancers on upwork by skill category

The snapshot shows 12 skill category and total number of freelancers.

Web development: 34930 IT and Networking: 7095

Data science and analytics: 3630

Engineering and architecture: 6353

Design and creative: 36377

Writing: 34178

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Translation: 8097

Legal: 485

Admin support: 51440

Customer service: 13029

Sales and maketing: 45391

Accounting and consulting: 8848

 Bangladesh freelancers by job success

Bangladeshi freelancers by job success

The snapshot shows freelancers by job success

Any job success: 96600

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80% job success +up: 6358

90% job success +up: 4337

 

Bangladesh freelancers by experience

Bangladesh freelancers by experience level

The snapshot shows freelancers by experience level

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Upwork.com

Entry level: 38285 Intermediate level: 4505

Expert level: 1735

 

Bangladeshi freelancers by hours billed

Bangladeshi freelancers by hours billed

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The snapshot shows freelancers with total hours billed

At least 1hr billed: 18407 At least 100hr billed: 9801

At least 1000hr billed: 3644

 

Bangladeshi freelancers by hourly rate

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Bangladeshi freelancers by hourly rate

The snapshot shows freelancers by their hourly rate

$10 and below: 79753 $10-$30: 14588

$30-$60: 1369

$60 and above: 890

 

Bangladeshi freelancers by activity

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Bangladeshi freelancers by activity

The snapshot shows freelancers by their activity. It shows how much regular and responsive they are

Last active within 2 weeks: 15252 Last active within 1 month: 19389

Last active within 2 months: 25852

 

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Bangladeshi freelancers by type

Bangladeshi freelancers by type

The snapshot shows freelancers with their account type.

Independent freelancers: 86601 Agency freelancers: 10000

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Why freelancing activity became low at 2014-2015 Than before:

Freelancing activity became low at 2014-2015 Than previous years at Bangladesh. The reasons are as bellow:

a) Upwork.com make some changes on submitting proposal and feedback and lack of these information freelancer from Bangladesh getting more less job than previous year and some of them losing interest of doing freelancing.

b) Lack of proper training on various job skill and lack of latest technology knowledge.c) Some people creating account on for doing freelancing but without proper guidelines they are

losing interest of doing freelancing.d) Some people getting job and without having proper knowledge of work they being unsuccessful

and losing interest of doing freelancing.e) Still internet and electricity problem.f) Bangladesh Government running various project but all are one times no refurbishment or no

review training to keep their skill active and for those who are taking training are losing at freelancing sector.

Conclusion:

Still Bangladesh have huge probability of gaining economic and developing Bangladesh as development country from these sector by giving proper training at continuous basis those who are doing freelancing and want to do freelancing. Bangladesh can reduce unemployment problem from these sector and Freelancer association of Bangladesh will go forward to reduce all kind of problem for doing freelancing.

ThanksMd Amirul Islam RajibPhone: +8801719421526, +8801777738798www.rangpurSoft.comRangpur,Bangladeshwww.facebook.com/RangpurSoftWeb development & Design & SEO & Admin related service ProviderSkype: Websolution.amirul

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