It may be lot more easier to be a successful freelancer if you profile yourself on vetted hiring platforms. Especially, go to platforms that understand the industry you are in. Here are some.
- Toptal
- Catalant
- 10x Management
- Unusual Hire
- Fiverr Pro
- Lemon.io
- CloudDevs
- Flexiple
- FieldEngineer
- Staffzen
- Gun.io
- X-Team
- 99designs
- Upwork Enterprise
You should also consider being part of prebuilt teams.
And be ready to answer these kind of questions.
Here are some top companies using freelancers:
- Shell built their own on-demand talent platform internally: people with cutting-edge skills like robotics and machine learning could work on projects outside their own department.
- Unilever experimented with 50+ pilot projects first, before committing to anything: external and internal talent platforms, freelancing marketplaces and crowdsourcing innovation platforms.
- General Electric partnered up with Upwork to create a qualified external talent pool. Less than 1 day to find talent, projects performed 50% faster.
- Sidekick used freelancers from Toptal to build a mobile app in 3 weeks and a database 10x faster.
More Resources
- Guide to Hiring Freelancers – Real-world advice for hiring and working with freelancers.
- Lancer Review – In-depth reviews of talent platforms, including high-skilled ones.
- High-skilled freelance platforms – Why trust-building matters when complex projects are awarded to high-skilled professionals.
Blended models of employment are here. In the future companies will maintain a small core workforce consisting of key players, and hire the rest on-demand.
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