Freelance on the side as a video editor.
You already do social cuts, promo videos, podcast editing, motion graphics and subtitling for a living. Career Bridge lets you do the same work for clients in the evenings, with your employment verified on your profile and your employer kept out of it.
The job you have is the portfolio you need.
A new freelance profile normally says nothing: joined this week, no reviews, no history. For video editors and motion designers that is absurd. You have years of real work behind you; it just lives inside an employer instead of on a marketplace.
Career Bridge lets you add that job as an employment record and prove it: a code sent to your work email, a two-question reference answered by a manager or colleague, an invite from a colleague who is already verified, your LinkedIn data export, or a pay slip with the amounts blacked out. Strong proofs verify instantly; document-only proofs and senior titles are checked by a person. Then your profile carries a Verified professional badge that reads "Verified employment, new here" until your first completed job. Honest, and a long way from zero.
You bring Premiere, DaVinci Resolve or After Effects. WorkOfficially adds the contracts, escrow on fixed-price work, invoices and a time tracker around them.
Three steps, none of them a leap.
1. Add and prove your job
Employer, title, dates, industry, company size. Attach the strongest proof you have. A work email code or a colleague invite verifies on the spot.
2. Pick Moonlighter and set your cap
Evenings and weekends, a weekly hours cap you choose, small fixed-price gigs first, employer-safe mode on. Publish the starter kit written from your record: a headline, an overview and three packages.
3. Take a set of social cuts from existing footage
Your first-client list shows evening-sized jobs that fit around a working week. Finish one and the badge drops "new here"; a real review starts the reputation that outgrows the boost.
What clients post
Clients can mark a job Evenings and weekends or Part-time friendly, and many post small fixed budgets for exactly the kind of work video editors and motion designers do best on the side: social cuts, promo videos, podcast editing, motion graphics and subtitling. In talent search, clients can filter to verified professionals, so a proven job history is something they look for rather than something they have to guess at.
Not quite your field?
Keep the job. Start the career you own.
Verified employment · Evenings and weekends · Your employer kept out of it