If you are a freelancer on Upworks or Freelancer.com, you should have a piece of Cake on your profile! This will enable you to highlight more of your skills and best assets, which will surely encourage potential employers or even other users to hire you and avail of whatever service you offer and provide. How Cake answers Freelancers’ quest for the best resumes? Better Readability Cake is focusing on content and leveraging the art of the typefaces as well as visual hierarchy in order to make the reader feel at ease while reading a particular resume. You can also check on the status of how many people have viewed your Cake, through the daily reports that will be seen on your resume.Track Your Results There's visitor stats right on dashboard, so you will be able to monitor how far your resume reached, by keeping track of the number of unique page-views on your resume.Responsive Design This is very much convenient to freelancers for it is optimized for mobile devices, meaning the Cake will responsively adjust to its own layout in order to look awesome to any size of screen you have.Building Your Resume as Freelancer Building your own resume is made easier through the Cake! You can find more than 40 beautifully designed resume snippets to use. No need to search and download for it is made ready with the simply drag and drop feature, you can put them onto your resume in no time.As a freelancer, you depend on no one but to yourself, so you need to look for ways on how to build up yourself in a creative and professional way. With Cake, you can create a resume that will look creative and impressive like no other. This is made possible through the limitless content and highly-customized design allowing you to introduce yourself in you own unique ways.Sharing your resume will enable you to reach potential employers or people who would be glad to work with you. This is because you will get your standalone page for Cake that will enable you to share it as your personal website and include it in your profile in Freelancer.com. By doing so, whatever craft you are engaging in as a freelancer might not just your pastime or hobby but a job that awaits more opportunities for your successful career. Cake has provided opportunities to number of job hunters and job enthusiast toward achieving their goals in life, which is to become hired and to earn trust from potential employers and customers.Being self-employed does not mean that you do not need to create your resume anymore. Cake is different from your usual concept of what resume is. It is made not just to show what you can do to contribute in particular company but also tells more about the stuff you love and just being yourself that makes you unique! Further Reading:Cake vs. Resume: The Resume to Land Your Dream Job

Our team is thrilled to announce the launch of Cake Meet, the new go-to networking platform where professionals connect and collaborate. Background Story: How We Came Up with The Idea In today's competitive job market, networking is not just a random buzzword but more like a necessity. Recent statistics show that nearly 40% of job seekers found their career opportunities through networking. This underscores the importance of cultivating a robust professional network for both job opportunities and career advancement.But why is building a network often challenging? Various factors, such as your upbringing, educational background, culture, or workplace environment, can significantly influence your networking opportunities. LinkedIn recently reported that while 79% of professionals recognize the importance of networking for career progression, only 48% maintain regular contact with their network. The leading cause? A reported 49% of professionals cited a lack of time as the primary reason. Additionally, other factors such as reluctance to talk to strangers, lack of confidence, and fear of being seen as pushy can also hinder networking efforts. Moreover, since the pandemic happened in 2020, networking has become even more challenging. Before COVID-19, many professionals relied on local networking events to expand their connections. However, post-pandemic, over 77% of event planners have struggled to attract attendees to in-person networking events. Effective networking goes beyond mere connections; it's about cultivating genuine relationships and leveraging them for career advancement.Realizing these challenges and the growing demand for innovative networking solution, our team at Cake is excited to releaseCake Meet—a user-friendly platform created to facilitate seamless connections among professionals of all backgrounds. What is Cake Meet? Cake Meet is a professional networking platform, inspired by speed dating apps, allowing users easily swipe left or right to connect with anyone they want—from employers and headhunters to job seekers, mentors, and students. The platform is integrated right into theCake Job Search App, you can now find jobs while networking, convenient right?Why Cake Meet?Expand Your Reach:Break free from geographical and social boundaries. You now connect instantly with professionals who are previously out of reach.Quality Networking: We believe in quality over quantity. Every profile undergoes manual review to ensure a network of trustworthy and high-caliber professionals.Adaptive Learning and Growth: Customize your network and learning scope to align with your goals. Connect with professionals across fields, share experiences, and gain fresh perspectives to elevate your professional skills.Mutual Connections: It's a two-way street. Both parties must swipe right for a match, ensuring genuine connections and meaningful conversations. How to Join Cake Meet You can join Cake Meet by clickinghereor the link (https://www.cakeresume.com/meet/referral-program/1ed3e8) to receive the invitation.Once you've received your invitation, hop into the Cake App and find the "Meet" tab between "Search" and "Message." Hit "Join" and breeze through our profile setup process, where you'll select from various networking categories, including meeting with Employer, Headhunter, Job Seeker, Mentor, Professional, or Student/Intern. But that's not all. You can also choose the topics you are interested in learning and sharing! For more details about Cake Meet, how you can use it, our profile review guideline, etc, check out our latest guidelinehere. So, what are you waiting for? Join Cake Meet today and let the networking adventures begin! 🚀 Happy networking, The Cake team