PeoplePerHour.com (http://www.peopleperhour.com/) – Europe’s biggest online business marketplace – today reported a 261 percent increase in the number of students securing work on its site in the last 12 months to gain employable skills in a rejection of low paid and badly organized traditional internships.
The figures also reveal that these students are earning more than before as well with a 515 percent increase in the amount invoiced by students in the last year.
The figures reveal that remote working is also providing alternatives to low paid summer jobs.
The new figures reveal that the majority of these students are gaining work in the digital sector, with the most popular category is design (3D design and web design), which accounts for 37 percent of billing, followed by IT and Web programming (web development) securing 31 percent of billing, with Writing and Translation (translation and journalism) securing 22 percent of billing.
According to PeoplePerHour.com founder and CEO Xenios Thrasyvoulou these latest figures show that tech-savvy students in the UK are exploiting new ways of working to secure real jobs in the digital sector.
“Our figures show that students are embracing remote working through the internet to gain skills and earn income,” says Thrasyvoulou. “It is not surprising that students fed-up with being taken advantage of by big firms promising them the earth with fools’ gold internships are using their knowledge of technology to create their own remote internships, which not only provide real work but pays real money.
Remote working is also providing a real alternative to poorly paid summer jobs. In previous times students would have to spend their summer holidays working in a pub or in a factory gaining few long-term employable skills. But today thanks to remote working sites like PeoplePerHour.Com students are able to become professionals quicker, by trading their skills online with employers.
“Not only do our figures show that the students are earning more money than before, but that working remotely and undertaking proper paid work is giving them the confidence and real skills to make them more employable at a time when graduate jobs are scarce,” said Thrasyvoulou.
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PeoplePerHour.com Background Information
PeoplePerHour.com connects businesses with skilled individuals to get work done remotely.
The site serves the small business sector and has over 45,000 registered users growing at 15% per month, of whom 70% are micro-businesses (five or less employees) and 20% are between five and 20 employees.
The company started in 2007 and has been grown consistently, unabated by the recession. This growth has been fuelled by companies’ need to drive down costs and find more innovative, cost-effective and flexible ways of getting jobs done.
Main service categories on the site are IT& Web, Graphic Design, Telesales, Marketing and PR, Copywriting and Translation services.
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