Usually, we only accept folks who are already registered as a freelancer (or running their own company) to our community. For the foreseeable future, though, due to the ongoing war in Ukraine and the situation of refugees arriving in Germany, we will gladly welcome any Ukrainian citizen working in IT/

To start the new year with a boost, we are launching our first "Double the Coins" campaign - until the end of February, our members can earn twice as much (up to 1.000€) as usual for referring new clients to Uplink! Usually, when you refer a client, you get

We started inviting selected recruiters to post their jobs on our platform a bit more than a year ago and, despite our concerns about the response of the community, the feedback was mostly positive! Of course, the descriptions of most recruiter jobs could be improved, and the hourly rate is

Today, we're launching referral links, which enable our members to easily refer clients and freelancers to Uplink. We're also increasing the reward for referring clients, and introducing a reward for referring freelancers. Read on for the details! Our members' feedback and recommendations, whether it's potential clients, new freelancers, meetup locations,

One of the features, that many members of our community have asked for over the years, was a way to "bookmark" certain posts from our Slack workspace to make it possible to find them again later. We are happy to announce that this functionality has finally arrived in the form

With our "Remote Community Meetup" concept we are already entering the 8th round. We came up with the idea, as it was no longer possible for us to meet face-to-face due to the Corona situation. We are very happy that freelancers can network with each other remotely and that we

Organizing a webinar on a topic relevant to IT freelancers was something we have had in our backlog for a long time, and now we finally got around to it! 🎉 Our first webinar took place on April 30 and featured Claus Lahner, a lawyer experienced in the fields of IT

Update June 2020 - #jobs-community is now also open for Uplink members, who started their own startup and are looking for co-founders or a CTO in exchange for shares! Every now and then, a freelancer from our community approaches us to ask how and where they can share their own

Some of the most common questions we have seen over the years in our Slack workspace had to do with recruiter contracts and how hard it is for a freelancer to know whether they are fair or not. A typical recruiter contract has 12-15 pages (often separated into a framework

A few weeks ago we started experimenting with a mentoring format at Uplink which is very popular in the United States: Mastermind groups. From Wikipedia: A mastermind group is a peer-to-peer mentoring concept used to help members solve their problems with input and advice from the other group members.Sounds