A few years ago, if someone asked me about freelancing in India, I would have said “You need to tie up with a BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) company, create a contract and outsource your work” and that’s how it worked. Definitely a cost-effective proposal but this BPOs would charge based on hours spent – both productive or otherwise! People were more comfortable joining a firm rather than going by themselves and selling their skills…..But TODAY, things have changed & Freelancing Have Evolved!
Freelancers are Beneficial :
India today hosts some of the finest Freelancing websites in the world. Most of them are new, fresh, and caters to a large variety of domains and skills. Hiring Freelancers in India could never have been easier as talents are just a click away, offering a ton of services at a very affordable cost. If you are a business owner, run an enterprise or a start-up, requiring to get a project done than hiring a freelancer would always be a wiser decision than investing in a full-time human resource.
There are various options for hiring a freelancer in India:
- Hire them to work off-line and remotely from their home locations
- Hire them to work at your place
- Hire them to work at a different location
- The charges vary based on the need and effort but never-the-less it saves you a lot in total cost.
Hire Them To Work Off-Line
Today, Freelancers in India are more mature and professional as they understand that their “Clients Satisfaction” is what gets them rolling. It’s a business partnership and their reputation depends on how they deliver to those services. Many of the freelancing websites have put a rating on individual freelancer’s profiles to help various clients look for the right candidate to hire. Any client with a nominal fee one could get access to a freelancer’s contact and connect with them directly (if need be) but this feature is available only in a few of the Freelancing websites, as a special feature. Most freelancing websites allow posting your requirements for hiring and allows the freelancers to respond to those job postings.
Hire Them To Work At Your Place
India is an emerging market and the fastest one within a vision to become a $ 5 Trillion economy in the next 5 years and with the world’s largest population of youth offers great depth in terms of the skill sets and pace. The government in India had been ever supporting individuals wanting to earn utilizing their own domain of skills and likings. This has led to the emergence of freelancers across the country providing various services within India and abroad. Just to give an example, one of my close acquaintances had left his high-paying job in an MNC last year and become a freelancer setting up various small scale factories around the globe. Another friend has created a name in providing network support out of a small town in Southern India.
Language and cultural diversity are some key factors that go a long way in hiring a freelancer in India (from India) as they come from various parts of the country with different backgrounds and languages providing a huge database of options to hire from. And with English being spoken widely within the freelancing community, hiring a freelancer in India becomes so much easier!
So, in the end, if I had to list down the advantages of Hiring Freelancers in India:
- Huge variety of domains and skillsets available across various service sectors
- Many freelancing websites facilitating the hiring of the right candidates
- Help driving cost down for a business entity
- The market has evolved with large no. of youths willing to freelance
- Government supportive of freelancing as a means of earning for an individual
- Diverse languages and cultures, giving multiple choices to the clients
- Low cost of hiring through the freelancing sites
- English is widely spoken and understood, to support foreign hiring
Never Too Early to Hire One and Never Too Late to be One Happy Freelancing
