Garden Route guest speakers can and should be members of association and guilds although it can be quite expensive though, especially for people who aren't too serious about becoming a guest speaker. To join a guest speaker Guild of America, it can cost you $100 for a yearly membership. However, for this price, you have access to other colleagues who you can get advice and learn from, you also have access to a job database, and there is an employer's database that they can use to contact members to hire. You can also publish articles for view by employers, to enhance your attractiveness to people who wish to hire you.

Offer to speak for free

The best thing that you could do while waiting for an employed opportunity as Garden Route guest speakers is; I have to say, to speak for free. Yes, free. It's a great way to practise your professional speaking skills where people do not have too much of a high expectation of you. It's a good way to enhance your skills, as you can get people to video you and you can see for yourself how you act on stage and how to improve. You can also set up a portfolio that includes evidence of all the free speaking work that you have done, including your videos, press releases that mention your talks, to show to prospective employers. They will be impressed that you have done so much, without even being paid for it. It shows them that you are dedicated to your cause and not afraid of hard work - that is why they approach you as one of the Garden Route guest speakers!