Freelancers of the future

Training program that enables women to acquire state-of-the-art education and escape mass unemployment through technological advancements. The participants will acquire the necessary skills to launch their careers as freelancers and compete globally.

The Freelance economy is growing consolidating an on-demand labor model. In this way, more companies around the world are increasing the number of independent contractors and not creating new jobs. The availability of technology is helping in the transition towards a flexible workforce. The current educational model is only training for the workforce of the past and freelancing is part of the future. This opens the opportunity for everyone around the world to offer their services and in the future become entrepreneurs.

The program is based on the theory of self efficacy of Albert Bandura, which is related to the belief of succeeding in accomplishing a goal. The second theory is that blended learning is the most effective system to provide training. The participant women will be able to support each other in achieving their goals. Therefore, the goal of becoming a freelancer is not an individual endeavour but a collective approach. By becoming freelancers the women will be able to acquire experience, learn how to do business, increase confidence, acquire new skills and prepare better to become entrepreneurs.

We have created a blended training model that helps individuals to become international freelancers. Through our model combining curated online content, with exercises on site the participants can acquire the skills they need. This will help because people will be able to transform themselves into their own businesses and start making money. With the real world experience they will be better prepared to become entrepreneurs.

Track online program completion

- 100.000 women trained in our online program

Track blended program completion

- 10.000 women trained in our blended program

Business opportunities for the freelancers - More than 1.000.000 dollars

We are combining three elements: Curated online content, usage of available physical spaces and our what2learn freelance methodology.

Women will be able to identify areas of opportunities, understand their skills and improve them, develop their brand, build a portfolio and launch their career as freelancers.

With the support of a network of 10.000 freelancers we have been able to identify the best content. We will help the physical spaces to become training centers. We will help the people to understand how to sale their services to major portals around the world.

We are not trying to impose some technology in the women. We are going to show them how to take advantage of current technology to serve their needs. They will first identify what are they good at and what they like to do. Based on this we will be able to help them to build a career. Technology will be at the service of them for the skills training but also to market their own brands. The key is to help them match their motivation with the Freelance economy opportunities.

People will be able to complete two types of programs. The online program will be accessible for everyone. The program will be free for women but anyone else has to pay. The blended learning program will be in collaboration with the learning centers we identify at each country. In this case, the people will be able to register and attend to the program.

We are partnering with big corporations, with them we would be able to leverage the financial resources through Corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs and the governmental relationships that they already have in place at state and district level.

We are also launching a paid version of the online program which will be able to sustain the blending learning efforts.

The key factor could be the lack of motivation to complete the program by most participants. The second will be the reluctance of training centers to allow for the blended learning to occur. The third will be how crowded is the freelance space that people will not find suitable jobs to start completing their portfolio.

The key is to showcase the innovation in our training methodology. That is the reason we want to find partners in developing, in implementing and in testing the model in more countries around the world. With the help of Solve´s funding partners some of the team members could work full time in the project and increase the expansion. We believe in this program and we need to step in the heads of giants to make it globally.

Interns Go in Belgium, Enredo in Colombia and other local partners through in the countries we are working through our connections of Erasmus Mundus, Aiesec, Ieee and the Global Shapers Community. We are part of the Transparency at work campaign to empower 1 million young people to access better jobs.

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