If you’re looking for freelance work, plenty of sites exist on the Web to provide you with potential jobs. However, finding freelance work is a numbers game, and you’ll get the most benefit from focusing on the most popular sites, where there are plenty of jobs to consider. While hundreds of freelance job sites exist, these are the most popular, and where you should concentrate your efforts:
Job Bidding Sites
Job bidding sites are designed to enable people who need a freelancer for a project to connect with freelancers who can provide the work. Job bidding sites enable employers to post projects, and freelancers to place bids. The employer then chooses the most suitable proposal.
Elance is one of the most popular job bidding sites, with 30,000 jobs posted per month, and over 100,000 providers available for work.
Guru is Elance’s closest competitor, with thousands of jobs posted each month, and many providers in a range of categories. Both clients and providers cross-post projects and profiles between Elance and Guru, so keep an eye out for duplicate listings.
Freelancer, formerly GetaFreelancer.com, is another competitive job bidding site with a broad selection of jobs. It’s probably the closest competitor to Elance and Guru.
AllFreelanceWork is a freelance job board and community. AllFreelanceWork contains job postings, freelance job aggregators, links to articles and community resources.
Contracted work is a professional services bidding site, which enables clients to connect with professionals to complete their projects.
Job Aggregating Web Sites
Job aggregating Web sites pull job listings from around the Web. Many of these jobs are full-time jobs, but some are freelance contract jobs.
Freelance Job Search is an aggregate site, but it aggregates specifically from freelance sites – not all job listing sites. This means that the only jobs on Freelance Job Search are freelance jobs aggregated from other sites; there are no full-time jobs mixed in with the results.
Joblighted is a job aggregator that gathers listings from other sites. Joblighted has tracked nearly 50,000 jobs.
Job Pile is another job aggregator that gathers job postings from around the Web. Job Pile typically discovers dozens of new sites every day.
Most Hired is also a job aggregator that lists a few dozen jobs per day.
Indeed is a job search engine that lists roughly a million jobs per week.
Job Boards and Listing Sites
While job boards are traditionally the realm of full-time jobs, some job boards also include listings for freelance gigs.
SoloGig.com is, in part, a hybrid site. SoloGig includes some freelance and consulting jobs, but also some full-time job listings. Professionals must ‘apply’ for jobs on SoloGigs as with a traditional job board.
GoFreelance is another hybrid site, where clients can post their jobs and freelancers must ‘apply’ for the job.
Authentic Jobs is small, but growing. It contains a combination of full-time jobs and freelance jobs.
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