Be a Guru!

I signed up for Guru around 2007 or 2008. The site is designed as a freelance market place where people create a profile offering their skills as a freelance employee to employers around the world. You get a set number of bids for a time period and use those bids to apply for jobs on the site that you feel you are able to do. Your profile has to promote your skills and abilities well enough that the employer will want to choose you over the other applicants which can be difficult when you do not have feedback scores and ratings while others on the site a established.

The work that I did on the site ranged from telemarketing to administrative assistant work such as researching flight times. Payments can be direct deposited to your bank account or through PayPal and are processed through the Guru website so you are not giving personal information out online. I was scammed once through the site and did not get paid for two weeks worth of administrative work. Another telemarketing job only paid if the you were successful in generating leads to be forwarded up the chain. The site is legitimate but would work best for people who have unique skills such as graphic artists or programmers.