The freelance market is one that should naturally seem to be unaffected by the pandemic. With its reliance on work from home, one could speculate the rapid increase in the freelancing market. Recently, it was reported that the Government of Pakistan are launching a Freelancing training program.
The Government of Pakistan have launched a program in collaboration with the Ministry of Information Technology & Telecom to launch a National Level Freelancing training program. The program is known as the National Freelance Training Program which can be seen as similar to the E-Rozgar Program previously launched by the Government of Punjab. This program is applicable to every Pakistani in the country who can apply for it. The program is free of cost and the training is completely online.
As per the details of the program, it is divided into 3 major fronts. As per the program, each course is lasts for a duration of 3 months where the major areas that they plan to teach are: technical domain, content marketing, and advertising, and creative design. For more specifications, the technical area covers PHP Development, JavaScript Development, Web Design, HTML5 Development, Word Press, Responsive HTML, MySQL, and Domain & Hosting. The Content Marketing & Advertising area covers Content Writing, Proposal Writing, Digital Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Internet research., Virtual Assistant, Email Marketing, Recruitment, Data Entry, Blogging, Affiliate Marketing, E-commerce, Search Engine Optimization. Finally, Creative Design area covers Graphic Design, Logo Design, UI/UX Design, Books/Ebooks, Corporate Identity Kit, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Banner Design, and Coral Draw.
If one is interested in applying for the National Level Freelancing Training Program, the admissions for the program are now open across all areas of the country for their first online batch. The first batch of training will be conducted online Once can apply to the program for free through this link https://nftp.pitb.gov.pk/registration.
