Yesterday, Guru.com launched their skill tests feature in partnership with ExpertRating:
“Skill Tests prove to Employers that you have the exact talent they’re looking for and that you are up-to-date in your area of expertise. When you receive 60% or above on a test, you can post it to the Skills section of your profile, and it will appear with an ExpertRating Certified Professional icon.”

Each test will cost ‘only’ $4.95 (and apparently this is the ‘discounted rate’)

This is rather late is you ask me as Elance had this for a long time now, and for free! Instead of trying to get more money Guru should have launched this as a free service, as I am not sure who would want to pay for this… I would have liked to see an external service like BrainBench (or even ExpertRating) integration with all these freelaning sites so you don’t have to take tests for each site individually.

One of the most valuable tools a freelancer can find these days is a good freelance marketplace site. Many successful freelances that were able to quit their daytime jobs to work as full time freelances have build their client portfolio from such sites. A few years ago there were not so many, but now you can find an ever increasing list of such sites that are trying to make their name into the business.

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