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Outsourcing for IT Support Made Easier

A new service rolling out Europe-wide will be offering affordable IT outsourcing services for small to medium size businesses through an international network of freelance professionals, operating in a self regulating and flexible eBay-style job-market system. Eurofreelancer has created an open marketplace that ensures value for money pricing on services offered by freelance IT professionals.

At the core of the system is the open-market strategy and fundamental economic problem: the lack of perfect information ? a company wishing to outsource an IT project will be presented with masses of options online, from outsourcing to India to sending the project to the farthest reaches of Nicaragua. Unfortunately for the company, they must rely on information provided by the vendor to justify the pricing and work quality offered.

At Eurofreelancer, the shoe is on the other foot ? freelancer?s work is rated by employers on carefully balanced psychometric scales designed by psychologists. Their pricing performance with regard to sticking to budget is double checked and measured over time as a statistical ratio. Through a carefully planned tracking system which measures freelancer performance much like a stock or share is valued, Eurofreelancer can give a potential employer more than enough information to make a sound business decision.