Now let's go over a study I found that is very applicable to becoming a freelance developer and looking
at the overall trajectory of where this industry is going.
And that study interviewed a bunch of us students that were aged 16 to 23 and over half of them, 58%
exactly said that coding skills are as vital to them as learning foreign language skills.
That's very important because you're starting to see that coding, developing engineering is a growing
industry and it's not slowing down any time soon.
And even the young population is learning that and they're starting to apply themselves to provide those
skills in the future.
35% that cannot currently code say that the lack of the educational access to learn those coding skills
is the primary barrier holding them back.
And 50% of those students said that they plan on learning a computer programming language at some point.
So it's no secret that more people are catching on to the demand of the coding and the developing industry,
and they're starting to apply themselves in learning those skills.
Now let's discuss the freelance developer sales process.
I'm going to lay down a brief overview of the freelance developer sales process as well as what we will
be covering in the future lessons coming up in this section.
It all starts with learning to code.
Of course, you're not going to be able to get a job, build a profile, or build your resume if you
don't have that foundation to build it around.
So you do need to figure out what skill set of being a developer makes sense for you.
We will go over some of the top different skill sets as it relates to being a developer in the next
lesson.
So stay tuned for that.
But that is your first step.
You need to get some understanding, some real world experience in and work on some projects so you
actually have that skill set under your belt.
Now, of course, you're always going to be advancing it, but that is the first step.
After that, that's when it's time to build your resume and to build your freelance profiles.
This is where you take everything that you've learned your experience, and then you bundle it up into
an attractive resume or profile because that is going to be what different clients and companies see
when you do the next few steps.
After that, you are going to find jobs.
This is where you are going on different freelancing websites and job boards, which we will also discuss
in much more detail.
And that is all about finding the right jobs or the right clients that make sense for you based on your
skill set.
Once you have found a job that you want to apply to.
It's all about sending a proposal.
If it is a freelance project or if it's a remote job or a normal working job, you would actually send
an application out.
But a lot of those are very similar and it's going to include your resume, your profile, a cover letter
and other things that we will go over as well.
Lastly, once you send that proposal or that job application out and the client or the company is interested
in interviewing you, it's up to you to nail that interview, to prepare for it, to be ready for it,
and then to go in there and to crush the interview and land that job.
I'll see you in the next lesson.