10 sites for finding freelance jobs

Freelance jobs have been undertaken a lot lately because of its convenience both for the professional and the employer. The professional can work in the comfort of his home and and at his convenience and it is cost effective for the employer. Yet when we are close to finalizing a freelance job, there are things that we need to be cautious about.

You need to make sure that such a company does exist
Such a project exists
Your terms and conditions should be documented
Here is a list of websites for finding freelance jobs.
1. Freelancer
Sign-In to Freelancer.com and you can search for projects and bid for the ones you are interested in. When bidding never underestimate your skills!


2. vWorker or Virtual Worker (New name for RentACoder)
This is great site for Freelance jobs and it does ensure that there are no frauds happening here by their policies.

3. Get A Coder

Its a place for Freelance programmers, Web designers and Freelance writer to find a great job and for the employers to find cost effective talents. To understand the reliability of the company offering the job, there is a “Feedback Score” and the “Award Reliability”, which shows you the number of jobs posted by that company and the ones that have been paid so far.

4. iFreelance

It includes a greater spectrum of job seekers ranging from artists and photographers to programmers and writers. Here the job seekers can advertise directly to the buyers or submit their bids to various projects.

5. Guru

Its yet another marketplace for freelancers. It uses Safepay Escrow service to make the payment if the job providers are satisfied.

6. Project 4 Hire

In Project4Hire the employer can post their jobs for free and the job seekers can bid on the projects and once the deal is fixed a certain commission should be paid by the job seeker before he starts to work on it.

7. EUFreelance

EUFreelance has the job providers from the EU searching for skilled talents from all over the globe. It has an advantage of testing the site initially, without risking any money and then later stage the user can be a Premium member.

8. People Per Hour

Its another marketplace to hire talented Freelancers from almost all disciplines – Accounting, Legal, Admin, Organizing, Design, IT, Marketing, Writing, Research and many more. The amount of bids you can place in based on the membership you have taken.

9. Scriptlance

Scriptlance caters to website programming, design, writing and marketing projects. It also encourages the job providers to use Escrow to make payments.

10. Elance

Elance has professionals varying from writing code, crafting a marketing plan, designing your website, managing your day-to-day schedule and a thousand other projects. It uses various tools to get the job done efficiently.
Do you freelance? Which are the sites that you visit to find the freelance jobs? What are its advantages? What the challenges you face, when you freelance? Let me know about it!

5 Apr 2013