That's one compelling option to work around the limitations of your local labor market, but if you're a smaller firm and providing such training would stretch your resources, a new survey from online hiring
platform Elance suggests another solution — broaden the talent pool in which you're fishing by hiring online contractors.
Fabio Rosati, CEO of the online freelancing
platform Elance - oDesk, says these dynamics are moving us from the era of employment to one of newfangled «employability.»
Evidence that short - term, informal work models are becoming more accepted include last year's merger of freelancer
platforms Elance and oDesk and the growth of companies such as Gigwalk and TaskRabbit.
Not exact matches
Elance and other online
platforms have made possible a global marketplace for so - called fractional work.
Elance, a web
platform that connects freelancers with contractors, surveyed its members and 39 % listed writing and editing as their main skill set.
This is achievable start on
platform like
elance search jobs that come for freelancing based on your skilled set, if you are an accountant see if you can do book keeping for someone.
You can find excellent proofreaders starting around $ 0.01 per word on
platforms like
Elance, Fiverr, and Writer.ly — ready and willing to go through your book with a fine - toothed comb and find all the errors.
You can check out oDesk or
Elance, two of the biggest global online employment
platforms nowadays.
The result of a merger between two mega-sites (
eLance and oDesk), Upwork is probably the world's largest such
platform.
And it's easier than ever to be discovered as a freelancer with communities like Reddit and
platforms like
Elance and Freelancer.com.