Perfect Way to Find the Right Talent for Your Short-term Project
June 29, 2017
Perfect Way to Find the Right Talent for Your Short-term Project
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Upwork
Upwork is used in our company as a quick way to outsource when all departments are overloaded with enormous numbers of tasks or projects. This allows us to focus on developing more strategy or more important tasks in order to maintain business objectives. This also helps us if we are in short of some particular skills needed to finish the job (for example, content translation to a different language).
- Reaching out to talent for short-term projects: It is a quick an easy way to have extra manpower for your project, all you have to do is create an account on Upwork and post your project online.
- Easy to manage your freelancer's performance: once you have found the right freelancer, you would need to direct them to finish your project as you require. Using Upwork, you will be able to monitor your freelancer's work online. Working hours are recorded and screenshots can be requested through Upwork's software (need to install Upwork on your computer).
- Easy to make a payment to your freelancer: You can make payment to a freelancer half way around the world through Upwork which makes it extremely convenient for both freelancers and project owners.
- More payment methods: at the moment, an online transfer is available as the only payment method to freelancer. It would be nice if both project owners/freelancers could choose other payment methods (such as gift card or discount of a particular product/service).
- It would be great if Upwork can have a quick test for project owners to use to test the potential freelancer (for example, quick language test to make sure the freelancer is capable of translating a particular document).
- Giving points to freelancer: some freelancer that do particularly well on a task could be rewarded by project owners and those points could be converted into some prizes to encourage a freelancer (currently only reviews are available).
- Quickly translating our English website into Tagalog version (which is necessary for the Philippines market).
- Supporting marketing tasks such as drafting creative social media content so our marketing staff has more time to develop effective marketing plans.
- Provide consultancy about developing a mobile app which is necessary when we tackle the mobile market.
Upwork provides a platform (a software that you can install on your computer) and you are able to manage all of your projects and freelancers on it instead of having to log in and log out to the website every time you want to check on your project status. It is even more convenient when offering the mobile app so you can monitor your projects/freelancers on the go.