If you are a newbie then start with faucets, you'll get near to nothing from them, understand the forum and go for giveaways and bounty's. Build your profile and then start with signature campaigns and social media campaigns. Hold those cryptocurrencies and try to trade.
Faucets is not recommended even if he is a newbie and better choice would be to earn bitcoins by solving captchas as it will surely give him better and higher earnings in compare to faucets and if he have some skills then he can offer services and start earning bitcoins.