oDesk

Build out your Distributed Team

Post a Job: oDesk users can post either Fixed Price or Hourly jobs and gain access to a network of hundreds of thousands of certified and ranked professionals around the world.

Manage Team with Full Visibility: The proprietary oDesk Work Diary provides managers of remote contractors with unprecedented visibility into the work performed, including screenshots, work memos, and activity logs. The Work Diary guarantees that work was performed.

Pay Contractors Around the World: oDesk’s infrastructure and payment system allow businesses to pay via check or credit card direct. oDesk takes care of paying contractors in any of over 150 countries worldwide.

Why oDesk and CollabNet?

oDesk Buyers are often engineering managers at small-medium sized businesses or IT consultants. They come to oDesk to find, hire, manage, and pay contractors anywhere in the world for skills such as PHP, Java, Ajax, Python, QA, Graphic Design, and more. These managers often need additional tools for collaboration including source code management.

Managers receive a basic Subversion repository upon hiring their first resource through the marketplace. oDesk has identified CollabNet as the leader in Subversion resources and training and recommends that users turn to CollabNet for the best of breed in Subversion resources.

Key Benefits of oDesk

oDesk allows managers of IT consultancies, web design agencies, and software development companies to take advantage of the global workforce in the most efficient way possible. The proprietary Work Diary gives complete control and guaranteed work to the manager.

Access to Global Talent

oDesk has hundreds of thousands of professionals in over 100 countries, including India, Russia, Ukraine, Pakistan, Philippines, United States, and Canada. Providers are available in categories including web development, software development, QA, writing, graphic design, online marketing, data entry, and more. Best of all, oDesk offers skill certification tests in over 150 skills so that you can ensure you’re getting qualified professionals. You can also look at feedback scores and comments from any previous work experience on the oDesk network.

Guaranteed Work

The visibility provided in the Work Diary guarantees that work was performed on your behalf. Here’s how it works:

1. Post a job and hire a provider to an hourly job
2. Assign work and the provider will log time thru the oDesk system
3. oDesk captures screenshots, work memos,
   and activitylogs every 10 minutes
4. Review the work performed online to see the work performed

Secure Payment and IP Protection

Buyers pay for all work performed to oDesk and don’t need to worry about taxes, W9, NDAs, or IP protection. All contracts and international contractor payments are handled by oDesk utilizing multiple different payment methods to over 100 countries.