The job on-line agency Guru.com is going to end its service end of this month. That’s one of the doors closed for freelancers. Once in a while, there were many sites open for job/work exchange. And they did bring lots of companies to seriously look into outsourcing option. Engineers came from place like India giving much lower price to contracted software, it’s pretty attractive especially the software in small scale.
However, according to the article, there are less work exchange nowadays. What really happen? It seem globally sinked economy’s side effect. While the global environment start back to normal slowly, small companies choose not to spend, big-corp choose secured partners. Is this the cause? I don’t know. Free-lancing market in Malaysia is still OK, but freelancers really can’t expect much at the mean time, unless they did have pretty good contacts.
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in my experience, Guru.com was a place where desperate people bid incredibly low prices for companies trying to get the lowest possible price for development in the shortest time possible. The only good thing I ever got from Guru.com was my robe.
Freelancing is alive and well (and paying my bills for well over a year now) but people mostly use trusted channels to get developers and jobs, not website classified ads.
posted 11:58 PM on June 5, 2003 · comment by sirshannon · #
Agree. The design of existing work exchange sites mostly lead to a way that too focusing on price bidding, which isn't help companies to find the right skill and understand what they actually need. And lower and lower price isn't healthy for the market too.
People turned back to their traditional trusted channels. It's failure of on-line job bidding.