Experiments With The 4-Hour Workweek
Finding a writer in the Philippines using bestjobs.ph
5Nov2009 Filed under: 3. Automation (Muse and Outsourcing) Author: Rasmus
A couple of months ago I found a writer that should write my first ebook. It didn’t turn out quite right and I am som experiences richer.
So I am on it again.
During my new round of hiring I have been in contact with several writers I found on bestjobs.ph. Many of them (up to 50%) are only doing freelance work and are not available for full time work. This means that I am finding it harder to find qualified people who are actually willing to work for you full time. Have anyone else seen this trend.
Unfortunely you cannot register yourself on bestjobs.ph if you live outside the Philippines (so it helps if you can get someone in the Philippines to create the account for you 
).
I have also heard of people talk of Craigslist (the Manilla flavor ) but I haven’t had any success with this. Does anyone have other ideas to where you could find qualified fulltime workers in the Philippines?
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Hi, my name is Rasmus and I live in Denmark. In January 2008 I read the book 
I am in the IT business and saw that some of the stuff Tim mentioned in his book, was clearly possible. And while I will never be as hardcore as Tim is, there were certainly ideas in the book that I could see myself using.
This blog is all about my experiments with Living The Four Hour Work Week - although my weeks are currently longer :)
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Daniel Graversen
November 6th, 2009 at 3:52 am
Hi,
I have some programmers. It have not had any programmers, how was able to work only on my project. Not optimal, but they do work hard.
/daniel
Rasmus
November 9th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Daniel you rule Philippine outsourcing
I am beginning to thing that you have more Philippines employed than John Jonas!
Bob Moldashel
November 22nd, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Hi Rasmus,
Great job on the blog here. Found you through John Jonas’ blog while “fishing” around.
Regarding a writer in the Philippines I have been struggling with this for the past 6 months.
Presently I have 2 web guys and a VA in the Philippines. I have hired and terminated 8 writers to date. More than half have been terminated for plagerism even though I told them up front that they were expected to provide original material. The others were let go because they either failed to meet repeated deadlines or just disappeared in the middle of the project and never returned.
One of the things I do now is ask them to submit an example of their writing and then I take a paragraph or two and plug it into Google and do a search. It amazes me what you can find with Google.
My web guys and my VA are great though. I don’t know how I ever got by without the VA. She is great and does everything.
For now I am putting the writer position on the back burner to concentrate on a few other projects and will try again after the new year.
Good luck with your search and let us know how you make out.
Best Regards
Bob
Rasmus
November 23rd, 2009 at 12:20 am
Hi Bob
I am also on my second writer, being screwed over by the first. This second one has some great articles, but I am unsure if she can do an entire ebook.
I have had my web guy do all the research for the ebook (plus I have bought an existing book on the subject). This way the writer should really just focus on writing and this will hopefully make the task a bit easier. But I have yet to show a result with this method
Good luck with your projects!
Mikkel Andersen
December 14th, 2009 at 7:37 am
Hi
I read your blog with great joy.
But I was wondering how I would go about finding a programmer for freelance tasks on my Magento Online Shop?
I’ve tried bestjobs.ph, but it seems it’s not very user friendly. Do I absolutely have to create an add looking for a programmer? Seems weird that I’m not able to simply browse through programmers looking for jobs?
Thanks in advance
Rasmus
December 14th, 2009 at 8:06 am
Hi
No you cannot create an add since you live outside the Philippines (and you are not allowed either, so if you get a username for the site, you should never post an add).
You can browse CVs online but can only see the contact details if you are logged in (and this is the tricky part as you cannot register yourself outside the Philippines).