As promised, let’s visit oDesk.com first.
oDesk shines apart from other online job marketplaces, due to its outstanding oDesk Team software. This was designed to closely monitor the activities and works done by remote employees through screenshots, mouse clicks and keyboard use.
Registration is free. You can download the team pack software without cost. oDesk earns 10% fee added on the wages earned by service providers from buyers. oDesk supports both fixed-rate and hourly payments on projects, but guarantees payment for hourly fees only.
oDesk is a leader in homeshoring, according to Business Week Magazine. The company is a finalist in Small Business Awards for 2006 by PC Magazine, and one of the 13 Launch Pad companies featured at 2006 Web 2.0 Summit.
oDesk is a global marketplace for oursourcing jobs, where state-of-the art tools are used on management of remote workers. Founders Odysseas Tsatalos and Stratis Karamanlakis got the company’s name ‘oDesk’ from the phrase ‘no desk.’ The original vision of people able to work anywhere and anytime was put to reality in 2003, when remote workers were hired and got paid for every hour of work by companies, even when both (employers and employees) came from different countries.
Here are some points that will help you build a fruitful career in oDesk.
On your Profile Page:
1. Pay attention to every detail of your profile page—because it will be your ‘face’. Upload a nice picture or image related to your skills.
2. Put taglines of skills as your ‘title’.
3. Take the oDesk Readiness Test and other oDesk Skill Tests. Add any certification like a Brainbench certificate. These will help complete your profile and also give you more chances to bid on job posts.
4. Provide educational background, an employment record, and a comprehensive portfolio of past projects with urls/links. Add your skills, hobbies, and interests.
5. Think of a good statement to put on your objective because this will appear beside your portrait on ‘Find Providers’ pages, where prospective buyers do an advanced search of service providers to interview.
6. Put the lowest hourly pay rate that you can afford and your weekly time availability. Don’t forget to rate your English and put the years of working experience you have.
After completing your resume and primping your Profile Page, you are ready to go to ‘Find Jobs’ to, well, yes, find jobs.
First thing to do, you must subscribe to get daily notifications for jobs matching your categories and sub-categories through email. For example: Category – Administrative Support and Sub-Category – Data Entry.
Next blog: How to create a perfect cover letter for oDesk
