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This site is designed to be a virtual portolio, a snap shot of my various skills and interests, including an avenue by which I may be contacted for freelancing opportunities. In these pages, the real focus of this blog, you will find my latest resume, samples of my work, and a little bit about me, both personally and professionally.
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I'm the "Vivian" in "VivianWrites". This site is all about how I work from the comfort of home, integrating life and work into one big joyous (ha!) union. Yep, fun stuff...
I think that “if you are not confident that you can do this, than it’s better to hire people who have expertise in that field”. From last 1-2 decades the % of outsourcing or hiring people has tremendously increased. and i have done same thing. For last few months i was working on the concept of “hiring people”.As our organization have some projects in hand and we don’t want to loss them because of lack of skilled employees.And the question is “HOW TO HIRE”? as far as i know there are two basic and trendy ways to hire virtual employees
1. Freelancers/Bidding sites
2. Job sites
But i have selected different path.i mean to say that i haven’t go through the freelancers or any bidding site.i preferred to search directly a good and reliable virtual service providing companies. The actual reason behind this is “searching and selecting freelancers or bidding site is quite time consuming”. And after placing your requisite over there it will definitely take around 1-2 months to get the required virtual employees. it means that over all process will might take 2-3 months.
And the bottom line is wastage of time as well as money.
So, i moved to marketraise (www.marketraise.com) virtual service providing company. And i am fully satisfied with there services. so i will suggest you all to carefully hire the people for virtual services along with keeping in mind the most important factors “time and money”.
Sophia
Thank you for your thoughts, Sophia. I have known lots of business folks who found freelancers the ways you mentioned, both through bidding sites as well as companies who specialize in virtual services. I tend to get enough word of mouth to keep pretty busy, so I have not used either to get work. I also do primarily ongoing projects and develop client relations over a long period of time (years!), which means I don’t need to market myself on bidding sites or pay a portion of my income to another agency in order to get the work that I need.
Many virtual assistants work this way and its a viable option once you have the confidence to establish yourself on your own.