Apply at http://www.toptal.com and please say I referred you!
You'll have some challenges to solve in order to enter but IMO it's worth it
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#12Hey, I work at Hired and we are adding contract and potentially part-time work into the product. I'd love to meet up (if you are in SF) or hop on the phone. Feel free to reach me at matt.pierce@hired.com to get something scheduled.
Cheers,
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#13I think that it is a great idea. It might be already served by a site like http://www.internships.com/computer-science. I say this because really what you should be doing as a student is doing an internship. If you didn't want to treat it as an internship, and build your own site, you do still need to provide some way for prospective employers to see your school transcript. I think this company provides such a service: http://www.ellucian.com/. See
http://www.ellucian.com/News/Ellucian-and-National-Student-C.... I assume that using their API has a fee, so your students are either going to have to pay to enroll in your service, or you are going to have to have the capital to pay for the API calls.
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#14The problem with these sites like oDesk is it ends up turning you into a marginalized commodity and its hard to stand out from that view point of the usually numb-nutted clientele that trolls there. You want to get in front of dollars, not squalor, yah heard me (hands up).
What worked for me is instead create an open-source project or even mini-project like some JS plugin, make a LinkedIn account, get your StackOverflow account, make sure each refers to the other, then (drum roll), you'll get offers flying in and you'll have to fend them off or start ignoring them as they will get annoying and that's a better problem to have.
The funny thing is, if you create that site, you'll probably get great offers because of that rather than a listing itself but beware of making another odesk that marginalizes its workers and try to attract big dollar companies to look at that rather than chump-changers.
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#15A service like this would be great. I recently had a spike in expenses due to some home repairs and some part time work would have been great to deal with it.
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#16Hey, I work at Hired and we are adding contract and potentially part-time work into the product. I'd love to meet up (if you are in SF) or hop on the phone. Feel free to reach me at matt.pierce@hired.com to get something scheduled. Cheers,
Contract work or part-time would be awesome. Hired seems really cool, but would rather finish school before I go full-time somewhere for more than a summer.
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#17Creating a social site is not easy. It's hard to attract jobs without candidates and even harder to attract candidates without having open jobs. Worst of all in your case is that you content(job post) has a short lifespan. It's possible but don't do it unless you're passionate about it. Try these for PT work. http://gun.io http://codementor.io http://meetup.com Assuming you live in a major city, there are lots of Mee…
I'm a codementor mentor. I enjoy the work, but don't really get enough that I don't need to look for other work.
Also it's frustrating that many of the "mentees" are students who are desperate to turn in a homework assignment the very next day after they post for codementor.
I enjoy teaching the younguns, but please don't leave it until the very last minute.
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#18Try asking around some hackerspace in your city. SF has noisebridge.net and NYC has hackmanhattan.com and meetup.com
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#19Apply at http://www.toptal.com and please say I referred you! You'll have some challenges to solve in order to enter but IMO it's worth it
How well do they pay?
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#20Apply at http://www.toptal.com and please say I referred you! You'll have some challenges to solve in order to enter but IMO it's worth it
How well do they pay?
Sorry I didn't respond earlier. You can set your rate however you want, however, your toptal guy will have to think it's credible.
I believe it pays way more than elance / odesk (however, I didn't really try hard there because prices are so low it would have barely sustained me) but my rate is still way below a good consultant rate of say 1k$ per day.
But it's good enough to live well even in an expensive city such as Luxembourg.
Just mind it's an investment so you should be good at what you're doing and have a few spare days spread throughout the next weeks in order to jump through all their coding / interview hoops.