Thanks for your patience.

If you answered “yes” to any of the questions I posed above, then EasyHire might just be the service that you need.  With EasyHire, you just tell us the job opening you are hiring for, the kind of worker you are looking for, and the skill set you’d want them to have and we do the hiring for you.  We will choose workers that fit your requirements, give them tests, and interview them.  All  you do is sit back and wait a few days for us to choose the perfect online worker for you.

EasyHire is a very practical and affordable service.  At $350 for first time customers and $200 for repeat customers, the service is well worth it if it means that you don’t have to go through the hassles of the recruitment process that naturally goes with outsourcing.  Use EasyHire and experience outsourcing made easy!

To learn more about EasyHire, visit our EasyHire page.  Should you have questions, feel free to contact us.

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Too many IP addresses accessing one secure area!
Please contact Support if you require assistance.

We use a member management plugin called s2member, and it was restricting access to users who had viewed the site from multiple IP addresses (several computers or networks). We deactivated the plugin last week so users could still log in. I re-enabled the plugin today and reset the “IP Restriction Logs” and everything should be working correctly now.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

1. Upgrade to WordPress 3.1 and BuddyPress 1.2.5.

We upgraded the site to the newest versions of WordPress and BuddyPress. It took a significant amount of work to get the site ready to upgrade to the new version of BuddyPress, but it’s well worth it. This new version has many improvements and we’re now on the upgrade path to future updates as they come out. Later in the year you should expect improvements to privacy, search and messaging as these updates are rolled out in the “BuddyPress core.”

2. Favorites list replaces the Friends list.

We used to have a reciprocal friends list, much like Facebook. We came to the conclusion that this isn’t the ideal way to manage user connections on a job site, and so we removed it. Instead you will now see an “Add to Favorites” link on all user profiles, and if you click it the user will be added to your Favorites list. This is a private, one-way relationship. Users do not know they have been added to your list. The purpose is to let you build up a list of people to contact and refer back to whenever you want.

You can access your Favorites list (if you’ve added people) by clicking Hire Workers and then clicking the Favorites tab.

You can also see your Favorites in a new section in the right sidebar.

3. Improved sorting of workers and jobs.

We moved the search bar and categories to the top of the screen on the Hire Workers and Get an Online Job pages to make them easier to access. We added sort filters to these pages so you can easily sort by date added, recently active, etc. We also are now displaying the categories for each job in its description.

4. Improved job interaction

We redesigned the job admin area to make it easier to manage your applicants, and also to delete the job and update its settings. We also added an Activity page to each job showing all updates for that job. Any user can add a comment into this activity stream. We believe this feature will help to facilitate conversation around each job, and will let workers more easily determine if a job is still active.

Note: We are aware that there is a bug in the activity stream for jobs which is causing comments to occasionally display twice. We are currently working on a fix for this bug. Edit: This is now fixed.

5. Monthly Rate added

We added a new field for workers – Monthly Rate. This is now a required field so as people start updating their profiles you will see it displaying more and more often. Workers, please go ahead and update your profiles with your preferred monthly rate.

6. Complete cross-browser support

The old site experienced some display issues in certain browsers, particularly older versions of Internet Explorer (every web developer’s worst enemy!). This new design has been tested in Firefox, Safari, Chrome, IE6, IE7 and IE8 and found to be compatible with all of these browsers. If you discover any display issues please let us know.

I was fortunate that readers and followers to Kathy’s blog were also interested to hear our opinion on the issues that surround the topic of outsourcing to the Philippines.  You can read my article on A Filipino freelancer’s thoughts on outsourcing by clicking on the link.

If you also have a topic you would want me to write about on Kathy’s blog, please give your suggestions on the comments section.

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Don’t be left behind, know what’s new on EasyOutsource by connecting with us on facebook and twitter.

Our site’s version number corresponds with the BuddyPress version number we are using. We are currently at EasyOutsource 1.1, built on BuddyPress 1.1.3. A major update to EasyOutsource (1.2) is right around the corner and will be using BuddyPress 1.2.5.

BuddyPress Roadmap: http://buddypress.org/about/roadmap

BuddyPress Development Updates: http://bpdevel.wordpress.com

Updates for EasyOutsource 1.2

Favorites List:

We are doing away with the Friends system entirely as it doesn’t make much sense on a job hiring site. We will be replacing it with the ability to add users to your Favorites list. It will work similarly to the existing Friends list, with the main difference being that Favorites are one-way (do not require a confirmation) and are private.

Sorting of search results:

You will be able to easily sort workers by Last Active, Newly Registered and Alphabetical. You will be able to sort jobs by Last Active, Most Applicants, Newly Created and Alphabetical.

Updated Design:

We will take advantage of the new and improved theming system introduced in BuddyPress 1.2. The new design will be more intuitive to navigate, will make content more accessible, and will have better cross-browser support. The basic look and feel will be similar to the current design.

Probable updates for EasyOutsource 1.3.

• Search by profile fields such as Rate and Availability
• Better privacy settings
• Better integration with WordPress 3.0 (under the hood improvements)

Possible updates for EasyOutsource 1.4.

BuddyPress v1.4 is still in the brainstorming stage

• File attachments in messages
• Ability to archive messages
• Advanced profile field searching