Outsourcing Profiles (Book Excerpts)

Outsourcing Profiles (Book Excerpts)

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Curious about outsourcing profiles? 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:

• It’s not your responsibility to ensure a coder properly manages his/her time — but it is your responsibility to select a coder that isn’t already under pressure and likely to waste your time and money as a consequence. We show you how to find available coders later on in “Analyzing Coder Profiles.” (page 32)
• To minimize your risks, that is – to ensure your project will be completed by a competent coder, you’ll need to spend sufficient time evaluating profiles and portfolios. (page 100)
• The RentACoder website generates a profile for everyone who creates an account. Each coder gets a profile and so does each buyer. All of these profiles are publically accessible – even to individuals who don’t have a RentACoder account or use the website at all. (page 119)
• Take the time to study each coder’s profile before you grant access to your NDA protected project. (Later on we discuss the proper way to evaluate coders, so hold on to your hat!) You’ll find a link to a coder’s profile inside RentACoder’s NDA email message. (page 205)
• There’s a lot of information in the coder profile, so we explain what all the little icons, labels, and numbers mean. Those icons, labels and numbers describe a coder’s ranking, rate, and reviews — three important tools you’ll want to understand as part of your coder analysis. (page 210)
• Now that you’ve filtered through the riff-raff, you can start qualifying coders by their profiles. The profile gives you a little background on the coders that you’re interested in and it’s formatted within a pretty neat-looking database. (page 228)
• Another important part of the profile is the Jobs in Progress field. Buyers generally don’t like to see a large number in this field because it could mean the coder is too busy to provide quality service – especially if the coder is a single freelancer. (page 230)
• To see if a coder you’re interested in is Expert Rating certified, click on the coder’s bio or profile link and then click the “Expert Ratings” tab at the top of the bio database. (page 243)
• To demonstrate the strength of RentACoder’s search function, we queried the search engine for “JavaScript programming.” The search engine gave us a list of coder bios or profiles that mention “JavaScript programming.” (page 250)
• Another way to add coders to your Custom Coder List is through their profiles or bios. Click the Control Panel tab on a coder’s bio and then click the “Add Coder to my custom list of favorite coders” link. (page 318)
• RentACoder noted on both the coder’s profile and the buyer’s profile that we agreed to self-mediate without formal intervention by a Rent a Coder arbitrator and that: (page 333)
• Of course if neither you nor your coder wants to self-mediate, or if it becomes evident that self-mediation is inappropriate, RentACoder will escalate the case to arbitration. Either way, RentACoder documents results on the profiles of both the coder and buyer. (page 340)
• Your rating will show on the coder’s profile as soon as that coder rates you. If for some reason a coder chooses not to rate you, RentACoder will display the rating you issued anyway after two weeks. (page 356)
• Look for bid requests that read “REPOST” and then check out the reason for the repost (if given). Click the buyer’s name to reach his/her profile, click the corresponding Work History tab, and then look for the original bid request. (page 365)
• Be sure to review the coder’s profile and ensure that they have done a project similar to yours or at least using the same technologies and that it was completed successfully. (page 407)

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