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FreelanceSwitch Job Board
Design, Development, Writing, Illustration, Flash, Misc.
Cost: $7 a month

This Job Board is part of the Great Community of Freelancers. You can start your whole freelance carrier here, as you will be able to find all advice and information necessary for the good start. It has a blog, where you can search for advice and opinion from other freelancers.
Handy tools for the freelance newbie and for the professionals.

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WebProJobs

Design, Programing, Copywriting, Marketing, Other
Cost: a 180-day listing is only $50 for full-time, $25 for freelance

Web Pro Jobs is a job board for web professionals and the companies looking to work with them. The main difference that you can find not only freelance, but full time jobs as well. If you post your job here, your job gets automatically listed on various websites.

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Programmer Meet Designer
Programmers, web developers, designers, entrepreneurs, writers
Cost: joining is free

You can search the site to your exact needs, filling out a simple form, or you can browse by the hundreds of tags, each indicating how many jobs available with that tag. Latest listings and Top tags are listed on the main page for your convenience.

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Krop

Design, Programming, Other
Cost: Free for the freelancer. The price is paid by the companies.

Krop is a company based in Los Angeles, CA. For your $ 199 you will get one credit. One credit = 1 job listing. There is no categories, you will have to use the search engine, which will found you the jobs you want. The available positions will be listed by location in alphabetic order, indicating the position they are offering, and the company name.

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SoloGig
Technical, Graphic Design, Web Design, Writing, Accounting, Etc.
Cost: Free

Great source for contract jobs, consulting jobs, freelance, and part time jobs.
You can search by keywords, city, state, or distance from your current location. You can sign up for free, and not for only a trial period. No bidding either, you contact the employer directly with your profile.

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No Agencies Please
Web design/development, media, Flash, Programming
Cost: Free

This simple site’s goal is to skip the middle link between companies and the freelancers. The companies can choose to post either a job, or a project. The freelancer decides which is more suitable for him/her and search accordingly.

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Authentic Jobs
Web Design, Web Development
Cost: free for the freelancer

The site requires no registration. You can freely browse the full-time or freelance jobs, both locally, or anywhere around the world.

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Simply Hired
No registration fee.
Administration, Architecture, Arts & Entertainment, Business, Computer & Math, Consruction, Facilities, Healthcare, Law, Management, Manufacturing, Military, Non-Profit & Social Work, Science, Teaching, Transportation, Sales.

You can search the site by job title, salary, company, job type, education, work experience, company size, company revenue, or date posted. Freelance and local jobs in a wide range of fields. Local jobs available only in the US. The special search filter includes criteria like: dog-friendly, or 50+ friendly companies.

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Fresh Web Jobs

Design, Programming, Other
Cost: $75 for 30 days listing

Small job site, currently with 72 available positions. Three cathegories altogether, so you won’t get lost in the site. Full time jobs presented in bigger percentage here.

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37Signals
Design, Programming, Business, Other
Cost: $300 for 30 days listing

Concentrates on the web professionals, programmers, program developers. The companies are mostly looking for local employees, for full time jobs. The location is highlighted in every job ad, to make selection easy for the job seeker .

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Design Crowd

Web design, programming
Registration: free

A site built by freelancers, in a forum format. After a detailed registration process, you will be able to use all the forums features. The applicant is supposed to follow the link provided in the postings by the companies, not replying directly to the thread.

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Guru
Writing, Design, Programming, Flash, Illustration, Everything
Cost: Free to $129 per quarter

A larger freelance job bidding website. Much like Elance, Guru has categories for everything from virtual assistants to search engine optimization. Sign up for a free account to look around and get a better idea of how the site works. The jobs vary in locations, some are location specific, while other are telecommuting.

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Freelancers Network
General web
Cost: free

Freelancers.net is UK focused and lists many jobs and projects open to UK freelancers, but those of outside of UK can find can find something occasionally. You will have an own domain where you can put your portfolio and profile. The site has wizards to create a professional portfolio if you are in need of one.

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FreelanceBBS
All types of jobs
Registration is required but free

This simple working site provides searching options for both parties: freelancers and employers. You can search, browse by available projects, profession, or use the advanced search for more specific needs.

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Go Freelance
Writing, Editing, Graphic Design & Illustration, Web Design & Development, Programming, Administrative, Consulting, Photo&Video, Sales&Marketing, Other
Cost: $2.95 (7 days trial) $39.95 per month

Be aware that if you do not cancel your membership after the 7 days trial, it will automatically renewed for 39.95 per month. With joining the site offers a bonus book and video about successful freelancing. You can browse the categories from the main site without the registration though.

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With Cake

Developers, CakePHP
Free

The site and it’s goal is simple: to help CakePHP Developers and those who are in need one, find each other. There is two sections, one for the companies and one for the developers. You can grab the RSS feed, to be updated regularly.

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Altpick
Photographers, Designers, Illustrators, Animators, Graphich related business
$299 for one year of unlimited access

Artists will have their own Altpick site, where they can upload their potfolio. With the registration fee they can update their own site whenever it is needed. Besides waiting for the customer to find them, they can check the latest job listings on the site.

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Coroflot
Designers, General Creatives
Free

With Coroflot you can sign up for RSS feed job alerts. You can browse, or search for specific jobs. Upload your profile to maximize the chance of getting the perfect opportunity. Creating a portfolio is free. You will have an own URL with your profile.

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Craigslist
Local jobs, all areas
Free

We all know Craigslist. But did you know that you can look for jobs there? In a forum format, in a daily listing, you can browse all kind of jobs, all over the US, should it be local, or freelance.

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GeekUp Job Board

Business, Design, Development, Other
Free

The site is specialized in web industry jobs in the UK’s North-West. Registration is a must, but free.

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AWN Career Connections
Computer graphics, web development, other
Free

The site is part of the Animation World Network. You can search the jobs by keyword, job function, job type, business type, state, country. Jobs are collected from various sites.

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Creative Heads
Video Game, Animation, 3D Technology
Free

You can create your profile in a few minutes, and you can choose from the three visibility status: ‘visible’, ‘anonymous’, or ‘invisible’. Interesting feature: You can prevent specific companies from ever finding or viewing your profile, while you stay visible to the rest of the market. Or you can choose from the wide selection of jobs, updated continuously. The list contains quality jobs from the top creative companies.

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Flay
3D artists
Free

Type in your keyword, or browse the categories. The site also provides news and resources for the 3D artist. A lot of useful tutorials and Lightwave Plug-in Database is also awailable here.

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VFX Talk
Digital composition & VFX
Free

This site is also an informational site, with a job section. Forums, news, tutorials, and gallery for the computer graphic professional. The jobs are listed in a forum format.

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Job Serve UK, USA, Australia

All types
Free

The candidate registration process is designed to be as simple or as thorough as you want to make it.
If you want to register quickly then all you need to do is provide your email address, a password, select those markets in which you wish to work and then press the finish button. Alternatively, you can proceed through the full registration process which will take a bit more time, but will speed up the process of applying for jobs later.
With one registration you can sign up for all the three main sites.

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Chin Wag
Online marketing, design, technical, business
Free

Currently nearly one thousand jobs available, which you can search with a simple search window, or by tags, locations, top companies. Registration is fast, free, and easy.

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Job Burner
IT, Engineering
Free

With the free registration you will be able to use the detailed job hunting tool the site provides, enable more advanced features – like watching jobs closer to your location.
You can keep a personal history of your searches, and preview some beta features.

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All Freelance Work

All types of jobs
Registration is required but free

The site covers the whole field of job categories. The site helps you to create a professional portfolio, also for free. Browse the whole list of jobs, or use the more detailed search engine.

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All Data Jobs
Data Architecture, Data Modeling, Data Analysis, Data Integration, Business Intelligence, DBA, Database Administration, ETL, Metadata, Data Mining, Master Data Management jobs
Free

Connect with top employers with data hiring needs. Sign up and apply for data jobs by simply cutting and pasting your resume. Set up job alerts and hide your resume from all you want to.

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Filter

Business
Free

Register to be able to get the top jobs. Copy and paste your resume text for keyword searching. Upload pictures of your work. This simple. Covers only the USA West Coast.

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Freelance Seattle
All kind of jobs in and around Seattle
Free

Non-profit, volunteer association, run by freelancers. The creaters aim is to make the job research easy and cost-effective both for freelancers and companies. The freelancer needs a registration first.

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People 4 Business, People 4 Charity
All types
Anywhere in the UK

The registration process includes a CV section, rate and availability description. Professionals registered as Sellers on the two sister sites have experience in a wide range of industries, both in the public and non-profit sectors. They are now ale to select a ’charity rate’, which is a discount on their hourly rates.

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Job Agg
Web design and development
Free

Aggregating Web Design and Development job boards. You can make sure you will find exactly what you are looking for, without wasting too much time to sort out the things you are not interested in. This list collect all the relevant jobs for you, from Authentic, 37 Signals, CS Beauty, Freshwebjobs.

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Job Pile
Web design and development
Free

Collect the available jobs from the following sites: Authentic, 37 Signals, Krop, Metafilter, Freshwebjobs, Slashdot, CS Beauty, Coroflot, Ministry Camp.

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Job Lighted
Software and web-related jobs
Free

The site’s main page features a handy map, which indicates the available jobs with a little bulb in every country. If you click on the bulb, you will get the further details about the job. If you want to go specific, there is search available by distance, or keywords as well.
Collects from Joel On Software, 37 Signals, Crunch Board, Slashdot, Authentic Jobs, Venture Beat, Tech Gigger, Metafilter, Python, Krop, Coroflot, Fresh Web Jobs, Smashing Jobs.

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Most Hired
Business, Development, Design
Free

Collects information from 37 Signals, Krop, Venture Beat, Authentic Jobs, Giga OM, Joelonsoftware.com, Crunch Board. On the main page the site lists all jobs, where you can search by keyword, or use the board search.

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Yosumo
Free

This site simply lists the boards it aggregates the jobs from: Joel on Software, 37 Signals, Crunchboard, Authentic, Slashdot, Vitamin, Fresh Web Job Gizmodo, CSS Monstor, PLOPT

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Indeed
All types of jobs
Free

A search engine for jobs. Free access to millions of employment opportunities from thousands of websites. The site includes all the job listings from major job boards, newspapers, associations and company career pages.

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Get a Freelancer

Web Designers

Gold membership: $12/month

After a simple sign up procedure you can find web design, programming, copywriting all over the world. However, if you are looking exclusive project, or higher ranking, you may wish to subscribe for a Gold membership.

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Elance

General web, writers, designers, developers, general
Start-up is free

Elance is a growing market for everyone who is trying to find work they can do online. Both individuals and companies can join Elance, create an online profile, and immediately join the community. With a free registration you have the right to bid on the available jobs in one of the categories, and a set number of ‘Connects’, which is the official currency of the site. You can buy more Connects, and be able to bid on more categories, on more jobs.

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iFreelance

General Web, Illustrators, Writers, Designers
Free

Post your profile today and get access to thousands of buyers in need of your services. Advertise to buyers, bid on projects, and earn money doing what you love to do.

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Rent A Coder
General web, development
Free

Subscribe to the newsletter and receive daily bid requests from the registered buyers, or brows in the currently open bid requests.

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Script Lance

Programmers
Free

The site offers a service that connects programmers with buyers that need custom programming done for their websites. Much like an auction, programming projects are posted and interested programmers bid on them.

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Get A Coder
Programming, Web Design, Writing.
Free

The site offers a service that connects programmers with buyers, throughout the world. Much like an auction, programming projects are posted and interested programmers bid on them.

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Agaveblue

Design, programming, development, online marketing, etc.
Free

Create a provider profile describing you unique expertise. Attract employers with an online portfolio highlighting your top work samples. Agaveblue automatically notifies providers when new projects are listed in their selected categories, inviting them to bid on projects that best match their professional capabilities.

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Freelance Job Search

General web, USA only
$5/credit

After registration, you will be able to purchase credits. You can then use these credits to purchase the contact information for the client. After you purchase the contact information, you should call or e-mail the company to get more information to create your bid. Each project allows up to 8 bids.

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Freelance Auction

Web development, programming, design
Signup: $59.99 + $ 10 % commission after every bid won.

Browse the list of projects posted by businesses for the ones you would be interested in, or have Freelance Auction send you an e-mail whenever a new project is posted. Then you can decide to place a bid on the project, as well as provide details of the work you can do. Update or retract your bid anytime you want.

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Project 4 Hire
Web design, graphic design, programming, writing
Registration: Free

Although registering and bidding is free, you will have to pay a commission after every bid you won.

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  3. Anstar says: Mar 6, 2009

    Great listing. I also suggest you add http://hotfreelancejobs.com to this list - on this site you can find freelance projects from many freelance sites (
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  4. Rebecca says: Jul 6, 2009

    Hi! Great post - some really awesome resources. I didn’t notice oDesk on your list so I thought I might suggest it as an additional tool for your readers who are looking for freelance opportunities.

    Thanks again for taking the time to post this! :-)

  5. Freelance Flash Webs says: Jul 29, 2009

    Great resource and list, will certainly be bookmarking this page.I’m glad everyone is finding this useful,Thank For Post….

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