The On Demand Global Workforce - oDesk

Thursday, February 26, 2009

LOOKING FOR A JOB THAT SUITS YOUR NEEDS?

oDesk.com - The Marketplace for Online Workteams and Freelancers

The best approach to online work is the one that creates success for both buyers and providers. As the first and only service to guarantee that an hour billed is an hour worked and that an hour worked is an hour paid, oDesk has long held these Manifesto principles dear.

Please consider the Manifesto a declaration: Don't settle for less than you deserve.

As a provider, you have the right to:

  • Get guaranteed payment for the time you work
  • Avoid the hassle of creating invoices and time sheets
  • Live where you want, work when you want, on the jobs you want
  • Set your own hourly rate based on your skills, experience and reputation
  • Access jobs around the world
  • Prove and market your skills via free online testing
  • Post a profile, apply, and interview for jobs without paying a membership fee
  • Build your own business online

As a buyer, you have the right to:

  • Audit the people and hours worked
  • Access talent from around the world
  • Know the identity, skills and experience of every team member
  • Pay your global online team without the hassle of payroll and taxes
  • Pay competitive rates worldwide
  • Offer work online without paying a membership fee or a posting fee
  • Build your own online workteam
I personally think of this as a good job opportunity for those service providers who are looking for part-time employment around the globe without the need to travel/transfer to another location. They can do the job at home and work anytime they want. 

It might be hard to look for an job and get hired at first but there are plenty of new openings every month. The best thing about it is that oDesk.com does the work of listing the jobs and categorize them according to the skills you can provide. You can subscribe to their email service, which sends you the jobs and skills you enlisted for, or you can look on the website for them.

AS LONG AS THERE ARE BUYERS, SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL EXIST!!!

Ponder on that for a moment and see for yourself. This might be your door to having a part-time job that might turn out to be your job for the next days, months, or years to come.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

The Poem That Started It All

Invictus

by Sir William Ernest Henley; 1849-1903

OUT of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbow'd.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.