Outsourcing Jobs (Book Excerpts)

Outsourcing Jobs (Book Excerpts)

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Curious about outsourcing jobs? 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. For details, head on over to this page and order the outsourcing book.

Outsourcing Through RentACoder (now, RentACoder) is a 418 page step-by-step user guide for entrepreneurs who want to reduce their workload and increase productivity at the same time.

Outsourcing Book Excerpts:

• As part of a middle-management team, this employee wants to know how outsourcing can close large spending gaps and prevent the loss of company jobs. (page 15)
• Creating a contractor account and bidding on a few jobs will give you a real idea of things from the “coder point of view! (page 31)
• Instead of seeking out contractors through a newspaper ad for instance, employers (a.k.a. ‘buyers’) seek contractors (a.k.a. ‘coders’ or ‘sellers’) through RentACoder’s auction-type bulletin board — a platform in which buyers post a temporary job opportunity and a maximum amount that they’re willing to pay for that job’s completion. (page 41)
• Common law workers are typical employees. They travel to a designated workplace, they perform a specific job at the designated workplace, and then they work for a specific amount of time for a specific amount of pay. (page 55)
• All of the jobs transacted through RentACoder (now, RentACoder) are outsourced jobs. (page 62)
• At the time of this writing, RentACoder (now, RentACoder) hosts over 260,000 contract workers with varying skills. 4,900 of these coders are “Top Coders,” indicating excellent customer satisfaction and a 100% job completion rate. (page 76)
• RentACoder doesn’t charge its hiring force for non-action. What it does instead is penalize individuals who make job opportunities available, but then refuse to select a winner. (page 89)
• The best back up plan you can have is a simple list of alternative contractors. That is unless you can dedicate the necessary time, finances, and resources to complete an outsourced job yourself… Most likely, you can’t – which is why you decided to outsource in the first place. (page 94)
• RentACoder doesn’t accept every bid request it receives and we describe some types of unacceptable bid requests in a later chapter. For now, it’s important to know that because RentACoder (now, RentACoder) may refuse your particular job request, it’s a potential risk. (page 101)
• Don’t bother garnering support from individuals positioned anywhere outside of upper-management. They may not support your efforts for fear that they’ll lose their job. They may even sabotage your plans as a result. (page 113)
• Because RentACoder (now, RentACoder) syndicates its bid requests through RSS feeds, job requests are additionally available through the websites that integrate those feeds. (page 122)
• You might find these experts already working at your current job. If so, consider yourself a lucky bug. Some corporations have to hire on additional people exclusively for this type of venture, and you may have to do the same if your outsourcing project is immense and your resources are limited. (page 131)
• Processes specific to your business are unique to your job, and while our Tasks_97.xls list provides several good suggestions, they’re admittedly superficial. (page 144)
• Even with our years of experience, we’ve been tricked into providing non-compensated services on more than one occasion (shame on us). In the last case, a contract was used as bait, and we were promised the whole job if we proved we could demonstrate just a small part of the work required. (page 155)
• Non-compete agreements don’t have to end when a service agreement ends, and just like with the nondisclosure or confidentiality agreement, they can last 3 – 5 years after a job has ended. (page 162)
• By the time you’re finished with this section, you could have about 12 coders vying for your job opportunity within just 24 hours. That’s IF you create a bid request while reading the content. You don’t have to… (page 171)
• One of the things that separates RentACoder (now, RentACoder) from ‘job board’ websites is its arbitration service. RentACoder’s arbitration service is critical to ensuring successful resolutions (and compensation in some cases). (page 181)
• RentACoder gives experienced buyers the option of bypassing the Requirements Interview with the “Other” option, but we don’t recommend skipping this step at all. If you do, you invite ambiguity and confusion – two things that seemingly just beg for arbitration. Take the time to specify a job type instead and answer some important questions. (page 193)

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