Types of JOBS on oDesk

If you are a freelancer on oDesk then this article might be helpful for you. While applying to jobs on oDesk you must have noticed that jobs on oDesk are being categorized into hourly based and fixed price jobs. The main difference between the two is risk factor; payments for hourly-based jobs are guaranteed and vice versa. If you are newbie on oDesk just try to get your first job regardless of the job type because you‘ll narrow your chances of getting your first job if you become choosy. But if you have a good experience and worthy profile on oDesk then try to go for hourly-based jobs only because it promise you guaranteed payment. The oDesk let you track your working time through oDesk team software for Hourly-Based jobs only, and once time is being tracked via oDesk Team your payments will be guaranteed unless and until your employer creates a dispute report against you. Then oDesk will look into the matter and sentence the case against the cheater. All these dispute issues are very rare and if you aren’t cheating your client then don’t bother about it. Well talking about the fixed price jobs, payment after the completion of job is totally on client discretion. If client don’t like your work he can end your job without paying you, oDesk will not be responsible for all this. Sometimes, few clients cheat you and after getting their work done they don’t pay you for that. So its better not to send the final version of your work to the client, either place some watermark or make the file password protected till you got the payment. 

Well, fortunately most of the clients pay you for your good work and very rarely cheats you. In my 4 year freelancing experience I got cheated by only 1 client so don’t worry much about it but be careful in high budget jobs to avoid any bad experience. We can check if the client is trust worthy or not by seeing the feedback score they have; oDesk gives chance to both contractors and employers to give feedback to each other. If the client cheats us we can give him bad feedback score and bad comments too. Also client will give us the feedback score after the completion of job and a good feedback is very necessary for worthy profile. If you have good profile you often got invitation for interviews and more jobs will be awarded to you.