Outsourcing Criteria

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Curious about outsourcing’s criteria? Our book, “Outsourcing Through RentACoder” explains it all. Below are a few selected snippets that describe its importance and why you, as an outsourcer, should care.

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Excerpts:

• Through RentACoder, coders essentially bid on a job and buyers select a coder based on specific criteria – similar to the way independent contractors bid on a construction job of some sort and companies hire one based on the same standards. (page 41)
• When you run into a bid that does not meet the criteria previously described, return to the Messages summary page and tick its check box in the Hide/Unhide column. Then click the Hide/Unhide button. That will hide the bid from your view so that you can concentrate on the more feasible bids in the next step. (page 229)
• You’re free to use any criteria. But you’ve really got to know what you’re doing with this search engine because if you don’t, you’re liable to get a bunch of irrelevant results. And irrelevant results could mislead you into thinking you’ve found a list of suitable coders (when you really just found a bunch of coders!). (page 250)
• Scorecards analyze a project’s progress according to some criteria. It identifies key milestones, and then “scores” the quality of each milestone met with a number. (page 299)
• At the top of the My Bid Requests table, you can filter bids with a set of pre-defined criteria and quickly zero in on bids of a particular characteristic. (See illustration below for criteria). (page 308)

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