Found a great contract work site

themagicone

Work Market

You sign up and then you can join groups who can offer you jobs. I signed up yesterday and already did $600 in work today. They had a bunch of little printers that needed to be fixed and each was like $80. Really saved my butt, I needed some work ASAP.

powerfool

Nice! I wish the LinkedIn integration was working, but oh well. I am going to give this a tumble... I could sure use some side cash right about now.

andy4tech

hello themagicone,after i signed up to Word market i was prompt to include my certifications and to include my certifications number and to attached my certificates.

themagicone

You don't need to add them if you want. Just some groups, like cisco engineers, require certifications verified before joining.

andy4tech

Thank you themagicone,i will give it a try.

Dakinggamer87

Thanks I'll be definitely checking this out!!

instant000

I signed up also. I'll see what happens. I want to put a photo on mine, couldn't be any more harmful than cbuilder, monster, dice, linkedin, et. al.

Question: did you set up your bank on the site? just wanting to check with someone not representing that site.

instant000

I looked and saw the other people in my area on the site, I may be undercut on my rates, not sure what to charge.
Onsite
Hourly Rate: $150 /hour
Flat Rate: $500 /assignment

Offsite/Virtual
Hourly Rate: $50 /hour
Flat Rate: $100 /assignment

^^^ This is what I chose.

And I see another profile in the area, has this:
(no certs)
Onsite
Hourly Rate: $18 /hour
Flat Rate: $175 /assignment

Offsite/Virtual
Hourly Rate: $15 /hour
Flat Rate: $50 /assignment


I see another guy has this:
(He has A+)
Onsite
Hourly Rate: $75 /hour
Flat Rate: $75 /assignment

Offsite/Virtual
Hourly Rate: $45 /hour
Flat Rate: $45 /assignment
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Hah, I'm not sure how serious to take this site just yet.

I'm thinking I really wouldn't want to hire someone without a drug/background check, but I'm looking through here, and I don't see tons of people getting assignments, and considering I'd have to pay for the drug/background check ..... you can see my obvious apprehension.


OP: Did you have to do the drug/background check before you got your gig? I wouldn't mind doing it *after* I actually got something going off the site, or was even offered work pending that, but don't want to sink money into this up front, if you know what I mean.

themagicone

I haven't got the background check yet. How I found the site was I was refereed by a job that didn't hire me. And basically I got a gig covering their overflow but I'm hopeful that some other places will pick me up. I added my checking account to get paid but haven't finished setting it up yet.

Most contract sites require background checks and you're required to pay. It's part of the game. I've done work for Electronics Field Service | Independent Field Service Technicians | FieldSolutions but in order to get work you have to had to some special favors or something. The only ones I get a chance at don't pay anything and I pass them by.

2E151

Is this a one time background check, or are we talking about having to get one for every gig?

nethacker

instant000 wrote: »

I signed up also. I'll see what happens. I want to put a photo on mine, couldn't be any more harmful than cbuilder, monster, dice, linkedin, et. al.

Question: did you set up your bank on the site? just wanting to check with someone not representing that site.

i was wondering if putting bank information there will be safe.

SteveLord

I am a little hesitant to willingly give out my bank information to a company I couldn't find any information or any feedback on.

Zartanasaurus

How much of the stuff they ask for is required before you can search for gigs? I certainly have no intention of paying $100 for the background check/drug test or giving out my bank account info.

reppgoa

I signed up for it last week when I saw this post. Since then I have gotten 3 job offers. 2 were printer repair gigs and one was a malware removal. I didnt accept any of them, but I have since taken the site a bit more seriously. I opted to go for the background check as its 40 bucks and one gig can easily pay for it. The drug test is also 40, but I dont think I will do that.

I called the support center about the linkdin integration, and they know about it and are working on it. I think this site is a great idea, and I am hoping for some easy money. I dont think im gonna be making 500 a job, but maybe couple extra hundred a month would be nice. Its all in your expectations, if you expect unreasonable results, you are disappointed when you dont see them.

And yes, I shared my banking information with them, cmon people its 2011, if something happens to your bank account, its not like its actually gone. The bank simply reimburses you and you have full access to your stuff in less than a day. Bit too much fear mongering going on around online transactions.

SteveLord

reppgoa wrote: »

cmon people its 2011, if something happens to your bank account, its not like its actually gone.

Yeah, its 2011...where your SSN, bank information and credit cards are all easily obtained and less protected than you think. Just last year, someone somehow got a hold of my debit card information and was buying World of Warcraft accounts or items with it.

Ever had all that happen when the rent, mortgage or car payments are due? Know how much work is involved in changing your checking account number from doing something as simple as losing your checkbook?

Do you not research anything that sounds too good to be true? I don't jump into something because I read it on an internet forum.

I am in 2011.

themagicone

reppgoa wrote: »

I signed up for it last week when I saw this post. Since then I have gotten 3 job offers. 2 were printer repair gigs and one was a malware removal. I didnt accept any of them, but I have since taken the site a bit more seriously. I opted to go for the background check as its 40 bucks and one gig can easily pay for it. The drug test is also 40, but I dont think I will do that.

Glad you got some offers. I haven't gotten anything since the first day . Not sure what printers you go an offer on but if they are the Catalina ones they are easy and usually pay around $80 to $100 per site. Once you figure it out a site doesn't take more than 10-15 mins.

whatthehell

Anyone know if it is mandatory to give your bank account info in order to use this service?

UniqueAgEnT

whatthehell wrote: »

Anyone know if it is mandatory to give your bank account info in order to use this service?

It seems like if they paid you directly it would not be needed, but the site is the middle man that collects and distributes. I have had a few offers so far but have declined. Seems to be a cool site, but would need more info before entering bank acct.

Zartanasaurus

Nice requirements list here for a group:

Has all required certifications

• Has ENS - Implementing Advanced Security
• Has MCSA: Security on Windows 2000
• Has GCFW (GIAC Firewall Analyst)
• Has MCSA: Security on Windows Server 2003
• Has GCSC (GCSE Certified Security Consultant)
• Has GCIA (GCSE Instrusion Analyst)
• Has CCNA - Network Security
• Has SSCP (Systems Security Certified Practioner)
• Has CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)
• Has Cisco Advanced Security Field Specialist
• Has Cisco Firewall Specialist
• Has Security+
• Has CCENT - Network Security
• Has F5 Application Security Manager
• Has GSE (GIAC Security Expert)
• Has GCSE (GIAC Security Essentials)
• Has CNSP
• Has GISF (GCSE Information Security Fundamentals)

vCole

How long does it take for your profile to be approved?

whatthehell

Thanks for the recommendation, but think I will definitely research this more before giving my bank info!

Either way, good reference IMHO.

Everyone

Interesting... Checking it out now. Anyone done any Offsite/Virtual work through it yet? I'm working from home full time now with my new job, but I have to travel for 1 to 2 weeks once per quarter. It would be nice to pick up some other remote work for extra money here and there.

blargoe

Zartanasaurus wrote: »

How much of the stuff they ask for is required before you can search for gigs? I certainly have no intention of paying $100 for the background check/drug test or giving out my bank account info.

Anyone know the answer to this? What is required to just search for what kind of work is available out there?

2E151

I'm under the impression that you can't search for work, that the employers just search for the contractors.

Everyone

2E151 wrote: »

I'm under the impression that you can't search for work, that the employers just search for the contractors.

That's the impression I'm getting too. Seems kinda like the opposite of freelancer.com, on that site, people post projects, then guys like us bid on the projects. This workmarket.com site seems to work the opposite way, people like us put up profiles, and people needing work done solicit us for it.

reppgoa

correct, you cannot search for work.

Everyone

Hmm, an hour after signing up, I got an assignment sent to me, flat fee of $200 to run 3 CAT5e drops of approximatey 120ft each in a town about an hour drive from me. They want me to provide the cable too... pfft.

Not my kind of work, so I declined.

2E151

Everyone wrote: »

Hmm, an hour after signing up, I got an assignment sent to me, flat fee of $200 to run 3 CAT5e drops of approximatey 120ft each in a town about an hour drive from me. They want me to provide the cable too... pfft.

How much of your profile did you fill out?

Everyone

2E151 wrote: »

How much of your profile did you fill out?

48% at that point, still have a few things left to do, got busy with work.

esswok

they just asked me to work on some POS gear for $239.00, I found schematics of the exact stuff real fast and started to read it,

seemed fair enough if I was able to do it on the way to a prior scheduled stop. (Great)


Then I proceeded to the next accepting screen and a second task appeared, possibly for the same amount, (?) but it was located 100 some odd mile in the other direction. (?) Wow?

I am not sure if I am clear but driving a minimum of 6 hours?

And doing their advertised 8 hours’ work, for $239.00

Buying fuel, using your own car and tools, 14 hours work, I wonder if they could pay me in Chinese Yuan <-> RMB ?

Jeeze’z.

How do you get

Illegal immigrant, papers <-> I'm throwing away my ccnp and my mcitp

I worked dam hard to get Cisco certs and Microsoft certs, I have 20 years in IT.

2E151

Anyone have a clue how much Work Market takes off the top for commission? No way they are doing this for free...