Which freelancing platform are you using?

I've been working as an QA more than 3 years, all are full-time employee and not ever thinking about freelance world how would it be.

Then I found some interesting sides supporting freelancers and was tried on oDesk couple times. The first impression is it has a good tracking system for both freelancers and clients. But most of jobs posted are just easy task in a short-term and needless to say they're not well-paid. And seems more difficult to find a job that really interest me.

Then I heard about TopTal from my friends and decide to give a shot for some reasons:

Only top 3% talents went through screening process: it's a real challenge, and it's not just sending application, make up experience and wait for a chance that helps you catch a client. Too bad if client hired a freelancer that not sufficient to the job - all to blame on his bad luck! With TopTal it seems different,the screening process waranted only top 3% application passed to the network. So the freelancers who passed the interview looks like got a badge to prove his experience and quality at work, which is really a great help for both freelancers and clients.

Connecting people and sharing experience: the Blog! First thing really impressed me and really got me, this is the place where you could work and learn in the same time without googling the whole internet. See the blog posts also help us have a vision on trending of market and technologies innovation.

Long-term works: I'm not joined TopTal yet, but it promised that giving freelancers oppotunities for long-term contracts. So you wouldn't waste a whole day(s) just for finding new project.

Finally, I applied my application recently and waiting for the call. Wish me luck!

Saturday, January 23, 2016