My experience with Onforce

Iristheangel

Hello everyone,

I have been on Onforce for a few weeks now and I thought I would share my experiences since there is a lot of people looking for extra experience or to just make a few extra bucks.

I heard about Onforce about two years ago and tried to sign up then (at that point, I had just CompTIA certifications and about a year and a half of IT job experience). My profile never was approved due to lack of experience or certifications. They never really give you the whole excuse but the point is that I moved on and didn't think about Onforce again for some time.

Cue to about a month ago when I decided to start seriously saving for a house. I now have about three and a half years of IT experience and some Cisco and Microsoft certifications under my belt so I decided to try to apply for Onforce again. I submitted my profile and waited to see if it would be approved.... only to be declined again. I was discouraged to say the least and figured that I might as well start posting Craigslist ads for extra work when, out of the blue, I received an email two days later stating that my profile was approved. WTF? I figured I'd go with it. I had to do a phone interview with one of Onforce's people and do a quick online training on how to use their ticketing system.

Now let me quickly give you an explanation of Onforce - Other companies outsource to Onforce to do their technical work. You could get jobs that are from all ranges: AV setup, virus removal, OS install, router failures, etc and I have yet to been assigned a job that was less than $75/hr. I'm getting ahead of myself though. When you first start out, you don't get a lot of jobs. I got one for my first week and decided to try some of Onforce's recommendations to improve my odds at getting more work orders. I paid $50 for my background check, paid another $50 for a drug test, set my service area to a 50 mile radius from my location, and I completed two online training courses so I could be added to two popular vendor's Preferred Private Networks (PPNs). Thanks to doing all those things, I'm getting routed an average of 3 work orders a day. It must be the vendor's PPNs that I joined but the jobs I'm getting are usually malware removal, PC optimization, and OS install and they are all about $110/hr for the work. Another important detail is that when you are assigned an order, it's also routed to other technicians in your area so it's first come, first serve. I just keep the Onforce page up on my desktop while at work and have text message notification of new orders so I can quickly accept. I've lost maybe 10% of the orders to quicker techs but I end up getting the majority of them.

So I went from getting almost no orders to making about $200-300 extra a day. I wanted to share my experience with everyone because I know a lot of us are hard up for cash or wanting to pick up a little extra experience. Anyways, feel free to ask me any questions. I've only been doing this for about 3 weeks now but I'd be happy to share any experiences I've been having both positive and negative.

ptilsen

@Iris, I may have to join Onforce to see how it compares. My experience with WM has also been that most work orders are gone quickly, and that's for crappy ones less than $30/hr -- which is just annoying because I put $60/hour or something in that region as my minimum.

@sratakhinm, that makes a lot of sense actually. As I said, most orders I see get picked up quickly, and they're for pretty cheap jobs, so it does stand to reason that there are lots of other techs in my area who will work for less. I also get a fair amount outside my advertised range -- once again, really annoying (I'm not driving 40+ miles for $75. No thanks).