How Does Online Outsourcing Work?
When you are outsourcing jobs online, you are essentially finding people to do the job for you and then paying them over the Internet. There is no physical communication. This works for most marketers because physical communication in some cases might only be a waste of time for them. Online outsourcing also makes it able to find the right professional for a particular task and also plan things on an economical footing.
So, how does the system work? The Internet has various websites where providers and employers network with each other. These websites are very much like conventional jobsites, but with the only difference that they handle the job and the payment itself and not just post classifieds for people to contact with the employers.
People who are looking at getting jobs done will post their requirements on these websites. These requirements will be concise – they will say in a few words what the nature of the job is, what its budget will be, what qualifications are needed for a worker to take up this job and what the timeframe for completion and delivery of the job is.
Looking at these details, service providers on these websites will post their bids. They will state how much they will be ready to work for, what time they can complete the job in and even give brief résumés and samples of their work. The project poster will then sift through these bids and samples and shortlist the ones that fit the bill. He or she can then communicate with the bidder through private message boards if further information is sought. When it is sure that both the project creator and the bidder are on the same page, the selection is done.
The jobsite deducts some charges when the selection is done. The charges may be taken from the project creator or bidder or both. But the jobsite is not just a matchmaker here; it will take some responsibilities.
The first responsibility is that it will retain an escrow amount from the project creator and release it to the worker when the creator indicates that the job has been accomplished. Thus, it acts as a kind of guarantor. Most of them will also arbitrate if the job posting and selection of the employee has been done according to the norms of the website and escrow payments have been made to signify good intent on part of the job poster.