ProFinder: LinkedIn’s Game Changing Freelancing Service

Working from home and trying to find new clients? Have a few extra hours and want to fill it in with a small gig? Just need some extra cash? Well, the solution to this problem is out there in another new fashion thanks to LinkedIn! Welcome back to #TechTuesday, where we want to introduce you to ProFinder, LinkedIn’s Freelancing Solution.

Work For The Wanderer

With freelance work coming into a much larger majority in a variety of work fields, such as the sudden growth in the Healthcare and Technology freelance avenues, people are constantly asking how they can more easily find work. Sure, there are services such as Fiverr, which offers small jobs that most people will complete for about five bucks or less. Or there is the classic Craigslist avenue, but we all know how undependable or just downright unsafe some of those odd jobs can prove to be there. We need a platform that is simple to use, broad, and professional. Cue LinkedIn’s ProFinder. The ProFinder is the combination of those exact features. Sleek, dependable, professional, and offered in a large range of freelance job field opportunities. Hosted and developed by the biggest professional social network available, LinkedIn, this service connects you with professionals in any range you want to customize to seek opportunities for that extra bit of income. Employers can post these requests on the board, a timetable, and how much they are looking to pay, which any freelancer then can respond to with their proposal for free. This also gives the employer the opportunity to read the potential recruit’s profile, so they know the skillset they are working with, as well as to help develop a potential long term relationship. With the growth of the freelance workforce in the past few years, this service proves to be an invaluable addition in our opinion. Its a nice way to make anything from a bit of extra pocket cash, to a stable sizeable addition to your income every month, while also presenting the opportunity for a long term position if an employer really enjoys your work. All of the requests are from reliable, real sources that have tangibility, not like the back alley deal feeling of many Craigslist postings. While the service is rather fresh, only being rolled out in about 140 areas in the U.S. so far, its growing quickly and definitely holds a lot of promise.