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Freelancing: Freelance and outsourcing Jobs

Updated on August 22, 2011

With the emergency of internet technology today people are finding freelance jobs and employers are outsourcing freelancer to work for.Being a freelancer makes you save a lot of time that you could lost during commuting from office to home.

What are the benefits of freelance jobs?

1.       Set your own working time

Once a freelancer has secured a job, he or she is able to define their working hours as opposed to office work where you have to report and leave for home at a given time. Freelance jobs gives time flexibility and helps in time management

2. Variety of freelance jobs

The beauty with online freelance jobs is that you have many outsourcing companies to choose from, you have the ability to choose what types of jobs you want to perform. There are so many outsourcing companies that offer freelance jobs

3. You can freelancing anywhere

The advantages of freelance jobs are that you can work wherever you are in the world, with internet connectivity jobs are now available worldwide and you do not have to travel from your home to the office to seek for jobs. Freelance jobs has made it possible for freelancer to have their virtual office in the internet

4. Flexible payment methods

Outsourcing freelance companies have different methods of payments which a freelancer can choose from, and among the payments includes checks, debit card etc

Disadvantages of freelance jobs

As any other job, freelance jobs also have got their disadvantages, remember you are working for somebody you have never met, chances are that sometimes payments may not be guaranteed. A freelancer might complete a job only to be told that his work has been rejected, since you are paid after completion of your work, in the event that your work is not successful you will have either to repeat the work or forgo payment

There are so many companies that offers freelance jobs online, but I have selected the most trusted and successful companies that guarantees work and payments. The selected freelance companies offer free registration to start doing freelance jobs

oDesk

This is the most trusted freelance outsourcing companies on the internet, it has go guarantees jobs that one has to bid and once you are successful you will do the job and get paid, “Hire, manage, and pay a distributed work team as if everyone were in your office”. Odesk pays it’s freelancer by either check, or debit card

Elance

Is also one of the trusted freelance outsourcing companies found online, with many freelance jobs to choose from, “Hire, manage and pay experts to do your work?

Guru

Is also one of the trusted online outsourcing companies that offers freelance jobs, guru also have a variety of jobs to choose from as in the case of oDesk and Elance provider. One has to bid for these freelance jobs and only if you are successful is when the you are contacted to do the job


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