First let me say Guru.com is a very well respected com­pany that per­forms a vital ser­vice to com­pa­nies, con­trac­tors and free­lancers.  Most of the time you sign up with the ser­vice, pay a monthly fee and then post your resume online. You can sign up and post your resume for free, but you will not be allowed to post on alot of projects unless you pay a monthly fee. Then com­pa­nies place projects on the site for your to bid on. Which that is a valid way for Guru to make money.

Pro

1. Guru has an enor­mous amount of projects to bid on.
2. They have a great sys­tem for payment.
3. They use a very com­pre­hen­sive rat­ing sys­tem for both employer and freelancer.
4. There are alot com­pa­nies and free­lancers that have made money from Guru’s services.

Con

1. You pay a monthly fee and then still have to bid against pos­si­bly hun­dreds of other freelancers.
2. Alot of the free­lancers under bid projects that make it impos­si­ble to be profitable.

Some final thoughts

• Guru is like any­thing else in life. “You have to crawl before you can walk.” You have to have

  cre­den­tials and a port­fo­lio. You must do a great job of mar­ket­ing your­self in you resume.

• You must spend time on the site like in social networking.

• Our com­pany has used tal­ent from Guru.com. We are a lit­tle dif­fer­ent than most com­pa­nies look­ing to out­source a con­tract. We look for bids in the mid­dle or top two-thirds of the bids and have used them. We have been sat­is­fied so far.  We have moved most of our out­souc­ing to LinkedIn. But that is another post.

What are your exper­inces with Guru and LinkedIn?

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