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Re:ODesk vs Elance vs Freelancer vs Guru by carlosrt on Sunday September 08, 2013 @11:41PM (#6351707)
< "I think there is a large opportunity to impress the market by shaving off the amount of time to find quality devs and firms". >

Elance could make it easier to find top providers if search results could be sorted by skills test results.

For whatever reason they choose not enable that feature.

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Re:ODesk vs Elance vs Freelancer vs Guru by auctiontheory on Monday September 09, 2013 @11:55AM (#6354197)
Elance could make it easier to find top providers if search results could be sorted by skills test results.

This would not solve the problem of (1) slacking off - poor work ethic, and (2) bait and switch - putting a less capable person on your job.

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