Freelance Writer Resume

People who want extra-income in addition to their regular jobs or need dedicated jobs with work-from-home facility may opt for freelance writer jobs. The foremost expectation from a freelance writer is, to write on "any topic, in time".

The freelance writes are provided with certain topics and are expected to write articles of it, following specified word count limits. Some write articles for magazines, periodicals, journals, etc. whereas most of freelance writers write website content.

The key skills of a freelance writer are,

• Knowledge of a number of fields (not in-depth)
• Capability to search for details of the given topic
• Skill to organize the subject matter
• Ability to summarize the whole content

The following freelance writer resume example will make the things more clear! 

Miguel Rogers
1223, X Street, Y Avenue,
Georgetown, SC-29442
(123) 456-7890
miguel@email.com

Objective : Generate quality content with absolute correctness and accuracy for organizations / agencies and move ahead my freelance writer career

Summary of Qualifications:

• Huge writing experience with great variety in topics and consistency in content quality
• Uncommon work completion qualities maintaining both the superiority of the text as well as the specified deadlines
• Extra ordinary ability to wander through contradictory subject matters simultaneously, such as medical science, sociology, economics, computers etc.
• Great skill of elaboration as well as concision of content as per the article needs
• Perfect hand at MS tools such as WORD, EXCEL and tremendous search traits at the web platform
• Very high speed typing and reading capabilities

Professional Experience:

Freelance writer (2005-Present)
[List of magazines, periodicals]

• Receiving list of article topics and their expansion limits by the editors
• Searching for the current and past references of the subject topic
• Gathering information and content material regarding the subject topic
• Planning and Preparing the overall format of the article
• Organizing the collected information and the subject matter and writing the article
• Submitting completed articles to the editors

Freelance website content writer (2003-2005)
[List of websites]

• Studying and understanding orientation of the website under consideration and relevancy of the current topic with it
• Searching the web for related information and data
• Searching for the keywords useful to achieve excellent "Search engine optimization" of that website
• Writing articles using the gathered information and inserting the keywords as per the context
• Submitting completed articles online

Academic education:

• Graduated in Arts with English literature as specialization subject from Coastal Carolina University, Georgetown, SC (2001)
• Completed post graduation in Arts, specializing in Modern English literature from Costal Carolina University, Georgetown, SC (2003)

Extra Curricular:

• Finished a professional training course in "Special writing skills" at MNO professional training institute
• Contacted the eminent news editors across South Carolina to seek guidance in building a personal specialized writing style

References: Will be available on request