I've been job hunting for 6 months, and initially I was getting a decent amount of interviews, but no offers. Now, however, it's been pretty dead. I've a done a little freelancing for the past 10 years so I added that to my LinkedIn profile so I don't look totally unemployed. My question, will that help or hurt my job search? Is freelancing looked upon favorably?

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When I was self employed and hired as an employee it was looked at favourably because I had experiencing serving clients rather than an employer, a very diverse portfolio of projects and industries, and experience running my own business. Frame it like that!

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Having recent work on your resume (freelancing or otherwise) is far better than no work at all. Otherwise the first question that'll come to their minds is "what's he been doing the last 6 months?".

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