Intensive Professional Course
Contracts & Negotiation for Independents
Build and enforce contracts that protect your work and your payment.
6 weeks · Next intake to be confirmed
Programs · Intensive Professional Course
Program overview
Freelance to Firm™
Move from gig work to a registered business with scalable income.
Overview
Key facts
- Qualification
- Intensive Professional Course
- Duration
- 6 weeks
- Entry requirement
- Open entry
- Format
- Hybrid
- Credential
- Certificate
- Accreditation
- Credence Institute certification
About this program
Freelance to Firm covers the transition from gig work to a registered business with scalable income. It works through entity registration and tax status, separating personal and business finances, contracting and invoicing properly, subcontracting and first hires, productising services and the mindset and pricing shift required when you stop selling your hours and start selling your firm’s output.
(opens full size in a new tab)Who should apply
- Gig workers
- Gig workers
What you leave with
A registered, properly structured business, from entity registration and tax status to contracting, invoicing and pricing.
Where it can take you
- Running a registered business with scalable income
- Making first hires and subcontracting
- Selling your firm’s output instead of your hours
The award
On passing the assessment you receive a certificate for this Intensive Professional Course program. Verification arrangements for this program are stated at enrollment. Issued under Credence Institute certification.
Who teaches it
If you want to know who leads this program before you apply, ask us and we will tell you.
Paying for someone else?
If you are funding someone else’s studies, here is what you are paying for. Freelance to Firm™ is an Intensive Professional Course program taking 6 weeks, examined and credentialed, and issued with a certificate that any employer can verify publicly at any time. It prepares the learner for running a registered business with scalable income, making first hires and subcontracting, and selling your firm’s output instead of your hours. With the learner’s consent we will confirm enrollment, attendance and completion to you in writing at each stage.
Intakes
Next intakes
Dates for the next cohorts are being confirmed. An advisor can tell you when this program next runs, and put you on the list for it.
Ask an advisor about datesFees and payment
Multiple payment options are available, with installments on programs of six weeks and longer. Employers can be invoiced directly against a purchase order or a letter of undertaking.
Keep exploring
Related programs
Advanced Professional Certificate
Gig Economy Playbook™
Win paid work on African and global platforms and earn in foreign currency from anywhere.
26 weeks · Next intake to be confirmed
Intensive Professional Course
Booked Solid™
Master client acquisition, marketing and retention for continuous freelance work.
6 weeks · Next intake to be confirmed