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Freelancers: What’s new?

May 9, 2016
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Smart phones were invented in 1992. It was called the Simon Personal Communicator and it was created by IBM. Although the Simon Personal Communicator did not become a household word, by 1995 the term “smartphone” had become a word we used with frequency. However, despite this, the iPhone, which arguably was the first smart phone to revolutionize things, was not introduced until 12 years later in 2007.

Once upon a time it seemed that the Blackberry was the most dominant smart phone; however today we now know that the two dominant platforms are the iPhone and the Android. After the smart phones came the tablets, and other emerging devices such as smart watches and exercise helpers such as the FitBit. Our world keeps changing.

What do things all have in common? Well what they have in common is that all of these devices need someone to write the code upon which they will run. What these things and the other things to come will have in common is that they will need programmers, web developers and professionals who write code such as the professionals found on IndiaFreelancers.com.

The future tech of things to come will be from a large range of devices such as smartwatches, new home automation devices and things such drones. The one element which is common to all of these future developments is that someone will need to write the code. Just like the new so-called “Internet of Things” (IoT) which promises to wire our homes. All of this will need people to write code for them such as the excellent code writers we have on IndiaFreelancers.com.

So please look to the future. Be aware that the future will need more of IndiaFreelancers.com and not less and join our growing family.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers: Companies want you

April 26, 2016
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How much is an employee worth? This may sound like a simple question. One only needs to calculate how much that person is paid plus any benefits such as health insurance or other benefits and consider that as the cost of that employee right? No.

An employee – a really good employee – may be priceless to the company. A great employee is much more than the salary that is paid to that employee. A great employee provides leadership to his or her peers. A great employee provides reliable quality and inspiration to the company as well as to the rest of the staff. A great employee will be invaluable to the company.

This is why in an article in September 2015 in the Times of India it was reported that t he latest big problem at India’s top internet companies is attrition – particularly in the senior ranks.

Prized, quality employees are tremendously sought out by all companies. There are even stories of a company BUYING another company JUST so that the acquiring company can get an key employee who works for the acquired company. Indeed, Sunit Mehra, who is a managing partner at an executive recruitment company in India by the name of Hunt Partners stated that Internet companies in India “are growing so rapidly that they haven’t built the fundamental concept of retaining people, especially at the top-level.”

This is where IndiaFreelancers.com comes in. On IndiaFreelancers.com we have some of the very best programmers, web developers, database engineers and technical professionals in India. Thus, it is not unusual for people to hire a programmer on IndiaFreelancers.com as a “test” and then hire him or her away from IndiaFreelancers.com to their company.

We at IndiaFreelancers.com know this and, actually, we are happy about it. We do not want to stand in anyone’s way to their happiness. If we on IndiaFreelancers.com can give a person his or her start in the world of IT, then we are happier for it.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers: Best places to work

April 17, 2016
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Many of us are not so lucky as to have a choice of where to work. Many of us are just happy to have a job.

But for those of us who have skills in high demand in the marketplace, the possibility of choice of where to work comes to play. And, as with most things in life, with choice come decisions to be made.

According to the recently published 2nd annual list of the Best Workplaces in Asia-Pacific, the Indian divisions of Multi National Corporations (MNCs) such as the package delivery service DHL, Marriott Hotels and the search engine giant Google were ranked to be among the top places in Asia where to work. The better news is that also on the list were 10 India-in-origin companies such as Lupin Pharmaceuticals headquartered in Mumbai, M&M automobile manufacturing corporation headquartered in Maharashtra and InterGlobe Enterprises headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana which made it to the list of the 25 Best Places to Work in the Large Places category.

The key with all of this is that there are some good and nice places where to work in India – be it an India Origin company (such as Lupin, M&M or InterGlobe) or an India division of a Multinational Corporation. But as nice as they are (after all, they did just qualify for the Best Workplaces in Asia-Pacific list), they are all employed positions. What this means is that when you work for one of these places – as nice as they are – you are still employed by them and you must do as they say.

Doing as the boss says is ok for many people, but for some among us the ability to be your own boss is a strong calling. The ability to set one’s own hours and one’s own free time is quite alluring. For those of us who have technical skills which are in strong demand these days and who feel the tug on our emotional heart strings to be our own boss, there is IndiaFreelancers.com.

On IndiaFreelancers.com you can chose which projects you accept. Choose when you will work and at what hours of the day. You can go to the park in the morning and work in the evening – or vice/versa. You can take care of the children until they are asleep and then work during their nap times. The flexibility is tremendous.

Thus, even though there are wonderful places where to work – and they have qualified for the 2nd annual list of the Best Workplaces in Asia-Pacific as noted above – please remember that if you have technical skills such as a web site designer, computer programmer or other technical professional, you  can chose to work for yourself on IndiaFreelancers.com and have the freedom and exhilaration that comes from working for yourself on your own schedule.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers: How much do you know Google?

April 14, 2016
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On September 4, 1998 people learned of a new Internet company called “Google”. I remember those days. People told me that “there must be some catch.” People would tell me “if you use that Google thing, next thing you know is that you will be receiving tons of emails and advertisements.” People would say things like “It can’t be any good if they are giving it away for free.”

But, as history has taught us, it sure can be and is quite good. In fact, it is so good that in 1998 when Google was initially launched, people were making about 500,000 searches per day on Google and today people are making 2.3 million searches PER SECOND on Google. Did I just say “2.3 million per second?” Yes sir, I did. That is nothing short of unbelievable, but true.

Google is so prevalent on the Internet that in 2013 when Google went down for for 5 minutes the GLOBAL INTERNET traffic dropped by 40%! Now that is power. Did you know that when you ask Google something, it actually takes OVER 200 THINGS into account about your question before giving you an answer – and it does all of that in about 1/8th of one second!

This is, of course, why Google is one of the world’s most formidable companies. It is even more amazing, when you think of it, that such a formidable company is now headed by someone of Indian decent. Yes Sundar Pichar, of Indian decent, is the Chief of Google.

As I have written previously in this blog, we in India need to feel quite proud of our countrymen who have left India and have created excellent names for themselves. We also should feel equally proud of the countrymen who did NOT leave India and who are doing great things here in our home land.

IndiaFreelancers.com is just such an achievement. On IndiaFreelancers.com we have some of the best and the brightest web designers, programmers, database engineers and technical professionals in all of India. The quality that the world has come to expect from those of us in India, is here on IndiaFreelancers.com.

So the next time that you use Google remember two things: 1) A person of Indian origin is chief of that tremendous company and 2) Maybe the next genius who can make something as great as Google may be the programmer or web designer or database expert who you hire or work with on IndiaFreelancers.com.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers: Women professionals welcome

April 11, 2016
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400 years is a long time. Think about it. 400 years ago in America, the colony of Jamestown was established. This was 170 years before the country of America/USA itself even existed. 400 years ago in India the states of Maharastra, Andhra Pradesh and karnataka, among others, did not exist.

Therefore, 400 years is a long time; however, as long as that is, that is how long it has been before the entry for women into the sanctum of the Shani temple had been permitted. The ban on women has been in place for four centuries. Women have not been allowed to step onto the high platform on which stands the black stone which symbolizes Lord Shanidev, the personification of planet Saturn – until now. But this four-century-old tradition was changed last Friday April April 9th, 2016 when a Bombay high court, stimulated by equal rights activists helped to bring the Shani Shingnapur temple trust to agree to break 400 years of not allowing women into the high platform and announced that it will allow women into the sanctum sanctorum of the shrine.

These developments have been amazing in a few ways. Amazing that such a tradition of four centuries can change – as well as amazing that it has taken 4 centuries for the tradition to change. Both are impressive.

But by contrast, although the world of traditions take a long time to change, the world of IT changes rapidly. Women make up a substantial proportion of our excellent programmers, web developers and tech professionals on IndiaFreelancers.com. Not only do we not discriminate against women, we at IndiaFreelancers.com encourage women to please come to be a part of our excellent website and platform.

There are many applications and program requirements which benefit from the point of view of a woman. Equally important, woman as as gifted and as excellent in these programming and technical skills as their male counterparts – and we wish to encourage more and more women to join our ranks.

Therefore, although it may have taken 400 years for women to be allowed into the sanctum of the Shani Shingnapur temple, it only takes a minute or two to find excellent and outstanding female programmers, web designers and technical professionals on IndiaFreelancers.com. We are very proud of women’s achievements on IndiaFreelancers.com.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers: Vidyalakshmi

April 7, 2016
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The world values Indian’s IT capabilities and now our government in India is showing us that it very much values out IT as well.

The India Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) today, April 8, 2016, proposed that all IIT students, at the time when they are admitted to the school, are to be given the possible access to INTEREST-FREE loans for their entire tuition, under the government’s “Vidyalakshmi” program. Now, as attractive as that sounds, we have to remember that it is particularly difficult to obtain admission to an IIT school in India. Indeed, the JEE (Joint Entrance Examinations) can be the “make or break” for the dreams of a young person who dreams of being an IT student. Indeed, just to qualify to take the examination students need to have a minimum 75% passing scores in their examinations and /or be in the top 20 percentile in the class XII examination. It is no easy accomplishment for a young person to obtain entrance to IIT.

But, with hard work and perseverance, a young person is able to obtain entrance to IIT – and their government will reward them with an interest-free loan as part of this new “Vidyalakshmi” program.

Why is this so significant? Indian IT is becoming a world class IT. As I have mentioned many times in this blog, we have India countrymen who are heading up some of the most prominent IT companies in the world such as Google and Microsoft to name a few. Entrance to IIT may be a young person’s chance to lift his or her family out of poverty and into the growing middle and upper class in India.

Once finished with IIT schooling, a young graduate can work with IndiaFreelancers.com and earn an amazing income – even while he or she ponders what will be the next step in his or her career.

The future of the world is in IT and with this “Vidyalakshmi” program our government in India recognizes that in India we have some of the best IT personnel in the world – and they are helping to continue this trend. Websites such as IndiaFreelancers.com are leading the way. We have some of the very best IT experts, web programmers, Internet experts, web developers in India working in IndiaFreelancers.com – and we applaud the government’s “Vidyalakshmi” program as a step to continuing the growth of this excellent class of professionals in India.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers: Dangers abroad – stay home and Freelance!

April 5, 2016
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In today’s Times of India paper, April 6, 2016, there is an article that an IT engineer from Kerala has been abducted in Libya by an unidentified militia. To our knowledge, according to the stories we have read, the 43 year old Regi Joseph of Koorachundu in the Kozhikode district was not doing anything political or wrong. He was working on IT. His project was to help implement a national citizen database. He was an infrastructure engineer living in Tripoli with his wife Shinuja who is a nurse and their three daughters. For goodness’ sake. An infrastructure IT engineer, a nurse and three young daughters. How much more innocent can you be? Yet he was abducted.

Events like these illustrate the perils and dangers of leaving home. We highlighted in a previous blog entry that many of our Indian countrymen are leaving our beloved India for distant places. They leave in search of a better life for themselves and their families – and the numbers are impressive. Every day Doctors, computer programmers, engineers and other professionals leave India in search of better opportunities for themselves and for their families elsewhere. As I mentioned in my previous blog post, government data show that there are about 2.8 million Indians working in Saudi Arabia, approximately 3.3 million Indians in America, about 1.2 million Indians in Canada and about 1.5 million Indians in the United Kingdom (see this wikipedia page for more details).

Why is this  information critical on this blog? Its critical because with websites such as IndiaFreelancers.com it is now possible to stay home in India and have the foreigners come to you! Every day on IndiaFreelancers.com hundreds of employers come to seek out computer programmers, developers, website specialists and database programmers. Every day computer experts – all top-notch in their areas of specialty – are sought after on IndiaFreelancers.com by employers from abroad. People come to IndiaFreelancers.com from America, Europe, Asia and Australia – to name but a few places.

The quality of our technological experts is starting to be strongly and well known throughout the world. That is why one of our India countrymen was hired to go to Libya to work on their IT project there in the first place – because our experts are good!

But now with IndiaFreelancers.com it is possible to stay home and have the foreigners come to you! They know how excellent is our quality here in India and they will come to IndiaFreelancers.com to find you. So please, think again before leaving home. IndiaFreelancers.com gives you the opportunity to stay home and be among your families and friends – and still make an outstanding income and living.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

 

Freelancers: To Expatriate or to Freelance?

April 3, 2016
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Every day, thousands of Indians leave our homeland seeking employment outside of India. Doctors, computer programmers, engineers and other professionals leave India daily in search of better opportunities for themselves and for their families elsewhere.

Government data show that there are about 2.8 million Indians working in Saudi Arabia, approximately 3.3 million Indians in America, about 1.2 million Indians in Canada and about 1.5 million Indians in the United Kingdom (see wikipedia).

Why so many of our citizens are leaving India to seek a better life elsewhere? Well, once upon a  time India did not have as much to keep us as it is now developing. But that is the past. Almost on a daily basis India is growing and becoming a stronger and wealthier country. Our infrastructure grows along with our financial strength as does the ability of our native India to offer our citizens a higher quality of life.

The question will someday soon not be: “Should I leave India in search of a better life elsewhere?” but instead “Why in the world should I leave India? Things are great here”

People of all skills and educational backgrounds are finding great employment opportunities in India. This is especially true for those with technical skills such as programmers, web designers and computer knowledgeable professionals. These excellent professionals can stay in India and have the work come from abroad to them by taking part in websites such as IndiaFreelancers.com.

And foreign countries know this. They know how absolutely excellent people of Indian heritage are – and they value them accordingly. Saudi Arabia, for example, announced today April 4, 2016 that expatriate workers from India who arrive in Saudi Arabia in search of work, will be given free pre-paid SIM cards on their arrival to the kingdom. Free SIM Cards! Think of it. Saudi Arabia knows what amazing quality it receives when they receive our expatriates. They know it so well that they are willing to give our citizens free pre-paid SIM cards on their arrival. It will not be long before the rest of the world knows and appreciates this as well.

Therefore, if you are a young Indian person with technical, computer, programming or Internet knowledge and skills, consider not leaving your wonderful homeland in search of a better life elsewhere. Consider working with IndiaFreelancers.com and having the world come to you!

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers and Fast Trains: Gaitman Express

April 2, 2016
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A friend recently traveled from Delhi to Agra via train. He mentioned that it took him well over 7 hours to travel that distance and that the train was very late. He also mentioned that the train made many stops (a total of 27 of them) at which stops many passengers spent a long time getting on or get off – making the journey even longer.

Well, the Gaitman Express is coming to help my friend’s misery. In two days, on April 5, this amazing train, which runs on state-of-the-art equipment and technology will make the journey –  which took my friend well over 7 hours – in just 1 hour and 40 minutes! This amazing train will run at speeds of 160 kmph. This is an amazing speed for a train. It will also have NO STOPS between Delhi and Agra.

It seems that everywhere we turn in India, improvements and better quality is happening everywhere in India. Now we have updated train service. The airport in Chennai looks like a dream! India has arrived on the world’s stage and we are making a wonderful entrance!

The key to this new and wonderful train will be technology. It will depend on programming to make sure that the gates are on time and that the programs that run the service are all synchronized. Where will these programs come from? They will come from the excellent programmers now available on IndiaFreelancers.com and from programmers who are IndiaFreelancers.com “graduates” if you will.

The number of young programmers who “cut their teeth” and obtained their first few programming jobs on IndiaFreelancers.com is amazing. Our “graduates” have gone on to be part of some of the most impressive and powerful companies in India – and worldwide! No wonder that it is very possible that one of our excellent programmers from IndiaFreelancers.com is now possibly involved in creating the software which will run the revolutionary Gaitman Express train.

IndiaFreelancers.com is the gate through which so many of our excellent and wonderful programmers in India pass and go on to make a name for India in the world.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers and Health Care: Diabetes

March 31, 2016
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Diabetes. There is a good chance that most of us know someone who has this disease. It is everywhere – or so it seems to be.

The World Health Organization (WHO) today reported that in 2015 in India of people between the ages of 30-70 approximately 80,000 males and 50,000 females died due to complication of  diabetes, whereas if we look at people above the age of 70,  approximately 50,000 males and 45,000 females died of the disease. This was in 2015 alone – and things are getting worse.

In the last 16 years the incidence of diabetes in India has doubled! There were about 32 million diabetics in India in the year 2000 and that number has grown to well over 60 million diabetics in India as of 2013. That is a 100% growth in the last 13 years!

Why is this happening? Well, unfortunately the answer is progress. Progress? How in the world can progress be responsible for some many more diabetics in India? Well, again, the unfortunate answer is not just progress but financial progress.

You see, as we get more and more rick in India; as the number of Indians who live in hi-rise expensive buildings and have extra money to buy luxury things increases, so does the number of Indians who are able to snack and eat things which they would otherwise not eat if they did not have such an amount of discretionary money.

This is no different than what is happening in other countries such as America. In Paris a few days ago a Global Survey has now discovered that today one out of every 8 adults is obese. That’s right obese. Obesity is the brother of diabetes. The more people weigh, the greater the chances of becoming diabetic.

To combat this, technology is coming up with things such as continuous monitoring patches which tell the patient and the doctors what the person’s blood sugar is at all times. There are more and more sophisticated glucose meters every day. It is only a matter of time before someone asks one of our excellent programmers on IndiaFreelancers.com to build, design or program something for diabetics. When that happens, we want for our excellent, outstanding programmers on IndiaFreelancers.com to be ready. To know what diabetes is here in India and worldwide and to be prepared to write the best program or application for this disease – in order to again put the name of India on the world’s stage as one of the places on earth where the best minds are creating the best products to help the human race. I would not all be surprised if the next big breakthrough in creating a program or an App for diabetes care comes from India. Further, I would fully expect that that great development will come from one of our excellent programmers or web developers on IndiaFreelancers.com.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

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