Shadyside-based
Guru.com, touting itself as the world’s largest online marketplace for freelance talent, will double its size this year from 19 to 40 employees as it prepares to launch an innovative new web site.
Next month, Guru.com will make blogging and video available for its more than 629,000 professional clients. Free to prospective employers, Guru.com helps thousands of free agents in the world to find work locally, nationally, and globally through a unique platform of job postings that, among many features, allows employers to interact with prospective employees.
“We’re an eBay for freelance projects,” explains Eric Spaulding, company spokesperson. “It’s an interesting job landscape. We do everything from graphic design and professional outsourcing to contractors bidding on jobs for kitchens. We’ve helped people find landscapers.”
Take the professional from Massachusettes who was hired by the creators of the audio script “Inspired By…The Bible Experience” in California. More than 200 Hollywood stars worked on the production and the resulting CD won
Audio Book of the Year for 2007. Guru.com brought them together.
“The person to person offshoring industry grows as employers and professionals reap the benefits of using a transparent, online freelance marketplace to conduct business,” says, Inder Guglani, CEO and founder.
What sets Guru.com apart from sites like
Craigslist and
elance.com is that Guru has a the largest base of freelancers, is the first to market with innovations such as social media and web profiles, and offers arbitration services if a project goes through mediation.
In the next two years, Guru.com expects to hire staff in the areas of IT web design, senior technicians, information security, and client information management.
Writer:
Deb SmitSource: Inder Guglani, Eric Spalding, Guru.com
Video capture image courtesy of Guru.com