When people start their journey as freelancer or digital entrepreneur to prove their skills, experience they say everytime I am new here but I am experienced.
Sometimes people say I have worked on many projects while I was doing job.
Ultimately people face big question that they can give any reference? Can they show similar projects? Why should anyone trust you when you are newbie? As they are not able to show any testimonials, recommendations and referrals.
It’s always good to have a authentic recommendations, testimonials on LinkedIn, at your website and other platforms such as GitHub, stack overflow. Also try to get recommendations, referrals with whom you did the projects during your job. It is always nice to have a various credits & testimonials from your company’s CEO, CTO and reputed people with whom you have worked.
Once you have authentic recommendations, referrals you can say confidently I am skilled, experienced and if any ask about the proof, authenticity you can show your recommendations & testimonials which will help you get good projects in the starting.
It’s good to focus not only on the quality work with a review from co workers, project owner with ratings everytime.
I hope now onwards you will get recommendations, referrals.