Years ago, Intuit, a business and financial software company embarked on a research to ascertain the future of work in the next decade. The report of the research later showed that by 2020, people’s attention will be panned to becoming more of freelancers, remote workers, contractors and temporary employees coupled with more sophisticated and tech based work force. This assertion was informed due to recent increase in artificial intelligence and machine learning which is likely to displace a great human workforce and increase collaboration between large and small businesses.
In addition, a recent increase in tech based business, freelance service and micro jobs marketplace websites is ‘a dream comes true’ for this prophecy. People are largely embracing freelancing as a career path as it has inspired talents to share what they do for money and work at their leisure.
Meanwhile, there are a number of factors to consider before signing up to a freelance websites. These factors vary with the niche of the freelance service, the terms and condition of service, the location of the service and the currency. Let’s take them one after the other.
Factors to consider before signing up to a freelance service
The location and currency
The country and currency that’s permissible in a particular freelance service influences the condition of service for the freelance website. While some big freelance sites, particularly those outside Nigeria for instance, may prefer to pay in dollars and are likely to delay due to the period of conversion, the Nigeria freelance services may not take so long to pay.
How user friendly and accessible is it?
While it may be quite easy and quick to create a user account and create gigs on some freelance websites, it may relatively take a longer routine or process trying to register with another freelance website. Websites like oyerr.com takes less than three minutes to sign up and less than twenty minutes to create a gig.
How long does it take to pay?
Before you sign up to a freelancer website, also consider the number of days it takes to get a freelancer paid after a task must have been completed and delivered. A glance through the terms of service will help provide necessary answers.
What chances does my gig have to get accepted?
Due to so much traffic caused on large freelance websites, new members now have very slim chances of having their gigs published after creating there accounts. Don’t get this twisted, not like the gig quality is wrong or not-up-to standard, just that too many gigs have been created under that category .
We cannot all deny of the challenges and margins that advances in technology has drawn. It only requires a strategic method to conform to these changes even freelancing, as a matter of fact.
