How to become a content creator with no experience — Srishti's story
By Srishti Chaurawal
Content creator5 min read
Right after school, everyone asks what is next. Nobody warns you that you might not have an answer.
Srishti Chaurawal is a content creator who found her first paid work through Taskly. She finished a digital marketing course, heard “we're looking for someone with experience” in interview after interview, and could not get a first project to break the loop — so she stopped waiting to be picked and built her own social page instead. That page is what got her chosen. This is her account, in her own words.
The loop nobody gets you out of
I still remember the exact kind of lost that hits you right after twelfth grade. Not the dramatic kind — the quiet kind, where everyone around you is asking “so what's next?” and you do not even have a next.
I had a dream. I just did not have a direction. I wanted to build something of my own one day — a brand, an empire, whatever you want to call it — but nobody hands you a map for that. You are just supposed to know. I did not.
My brother was the one who said it first: try digital marketing. So I did. I signed up for an online course and started filling notebooks with things like SEO, keyword research, content creation and ads — a whole language I did not speak yet but was determined to learn. I finished the course thinking the hard part was over. It was not. It was just starting.
I gave interview after interview, and I heard the same sentence back so many times it stopped even stinging.
“We're looking for someone with experience.” Nobody tells you what to do with that sentence when your only real crime is being new.
So I stopped waiting to be picked
The next year I did what felt like the responsible thing and enrolled in a BBA. A degree, I told myself, would open the door the course alone could not. But somewhere in that 9-to-3 schedule I felt my life quietly pause. Classes, notes, exams — and underneath all of it, the same question I had not answered since twelfth grade, just wearing a new outfit.
I did not want to stop studying. I just did not want to stop growing either. So I went looking for freelance work on the side, something to keep my skills moving while my degree caught up. Nobody gave me any. Not one project. When you have no track record, nobody wants to be the first to trust you with theirs.
So I stopped waiting to be picked. I started my own social media page — my own space to create, to post, and to actually show what I could do instead of just telling people about it.
Four lines in a group chat
Then, on an ordinary day, a message landed in a WhatsApp group I was part of.
“Hi there, if you have any skills, you can work at Taskly. We provide service-based work. If you're interested, you can apply.”
I almost scrolled past it the way you scroll past a hundred messages in a group chat. I did not. I replied instead, and that is how I met Rishabh, who patiently explained what Taskly was and what it stood for. A few days later he set up something I had not expected so soon: an interview with Mohit himself, Mohit sir.
An interview with no resume
I walked into that call with no resume. Just one social media page I had built with my own hands, and the creative work sitting on it. He did not ask for a CV. He asked to see what I had made. So I opened my page and let him scroll through it — the captions, the content, the small creative choices only I knew the reasoning behind.
He saw it. Not just the posts — the person making them.
That is the part nobody tells you about being seen: it does not always come with a fancy title or a big office. Sometimes it comes through a phone screen, from someone willing to look past the gaps in your resume and notice the work in front of him instead.
Mohit sir took me on as a content creator through Taskly. And here is what I did not expect — I did not just get work. I got a mentor. Someone who explains things patiently, who teaches rather than just instructs, who somehow makes leading feel like teaching and being led feel like learning.
He didn't ask for a CV. He asked to see what I'd made.
I think about that message sometimes. How close I was to not replying. How an entire chapter of my life was sitting inside four lines of text from a stranger, waiting for me to say yes.
Frequently asked
How do you become a content creator with no experience?
By building a body of public work instead of waiting for permission. Srishti Chaurawal could not get a first freelance project because she had no track record, so she started her own social page and posted the work she wanted to be paid for. That page, not a resume, is what she was eventually chosen on.
What is Taskly?
Taskly is a task marketplace: people post what they need done, and the people who can do it send an offer with their own price. The money is held by Taskly until the work is finished, and the person doing the work keeps about 80% of it. It covers hands-on work such as cleaning, handyman jobs and moving, as well as knowledge work like content, design and tutoring.
Does Taskly hire the people who apply as Taskers?
No. Taskly is a marketplace, not an employer. Srishti Chaurawal is a Tasker: she is chosen for the content work she does and paid for it, keeping about 80% of what she is paid. The part that repeats for anyone is being judged on work you can show, rather than on experience you have not been allowed to get yet.