Top 10 Ways Skills Central Can Improve Your Game
Did you notice the new “tab” at the top of every page on Elance?
The new addition – Skills Central – is a resource where you can explore the inner workings of the Elance talent market, especially facts and data about the skills in demand and the skills for hire on Elance.
Cool, right? Better than cool, Skills Central is actually useful in helping make you a better elancer, too. Here’s how …
Top 10 Ways Elance’s Skills Central Can Improve Your Game
1. Impress your friends with fun facts.
“Hey, did you know that there were 263 iPhone application projects posted on Elance in the last 30 days?”
2. Be the first to spot fast growing categories.
Have you noticed the steep monthly growth in demand for .NET experts?
3. Size up the competition.
Are you among the top rated XML experts on Elance?
4. Find a provider to hire with the precise skill you need.
Did you know you can hire any one of the 2,200+ business writing experts on Elance?
5. Identify relevant skills you need to learn.
Just take a quick peek at the growth in Facebook projects and earnings on Elance and get excited about all of the opportunities available to you if you learn the Facebook API and become a Facebook expert.
6. Get ranked as a top scoring provider for your skills.
The top 10 scoring providers on each skills test are ranked in order on Skills Central, so what are you waiting for? Get your skills tested and get additional exposure. Learn how.
7. Quickly find top budgeted jobs in your area.
Did you know that the top 10 budgeted projects for CSS experts are all over $50,000 each?
8. Find a top notch marketer for your business.
Whether you’re a potential employer or Elance provider, every business can use a great marketer to drive sales. Take a look at the marketing category on Skills Central, and you’ll see that the growth in this category is incredible. Everyone is hiring freelance marketers – why not you?
9. Size the earnings opportunity in your category.
Did you know that over $360,000 worth of work has been completed on Elance by Flash experts in the last six months?
10. Join in.
We came up with nine ways Skills Central can improve your game, and now it’s up to you to provide #10. Check out Skills Central and come back to share the insights you discovered inside, or just tell everyone what you think. Leave a comment.
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Oct 2, 2008 8:31pm
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It would be more of an advantage if at the end of the test you were provided with the questions that were wrong. I find the self-testing process frustrating. I believe I that hands on experience should have some value and most of the skilled test are by far too technical. Just my opinion. |
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Oct 4, 2008 1:22am
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Looks pretty cool - keyword skill lookups aren't working, though. Try ABAP or VBA in Web & Programming. |
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Oct 14, 2008 8:33pm
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Hi djsoffice, Thank you for your comment. We agree with you about the value of hands-on experience. We offer skills tests as another opportunity for you to further prove your expertise and knowledge in addition to building your profile to showcase your experience and samples of your work. We don't plan on providing information for which questions were answered incorrectly on our skills tests. However, we do allow unlimited test retakes so you can certainly review the content covered in the test before taking the test again. I would also encourage you to leave us feedback on the tests while you are taking them (which you can do for each question). This helps us incorporate your input and improve the tests for the Elance community . Regards, |
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