Magento Hosting : How to find a Magento developer? or How to look for a job?

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This magento discussion was started by Yudi on 03 july 2009

New to Magento? Looking for a freelance programmer or developer for your Magento site? Perhaps you are a freelancer looking for a job? Here are my experiences:

You can search for Magento partners from the “Partner” link in the menu above. You also probably saw the job board (top right corner – near log-in). The job board is a good way to go if it is a big job and worth paying the $75. However small jobs won’t be worth paying $75. On the other hand, it is often small jobs that bring the big jobs and therefore it’s a good way for programmers to start.

Then there is Maglance. The problem with Maglance is that out of 164 maglancers, only 2 of them have any feedback from clients! So it takes a lot of fishing around to figure out who you trust and who has the knowledge you need.

There is also another way. That is Elance.com. Lately there has been a lot of job opportunities on elance. I have used Elance a number of times and I just posted another job on Elance here.

To find jobs or providers on Elance, just go to Hire > Search. Type into search bar “Magento” and from there search for providers or jobs. The advantage of Elance is 1) that you have a third party (elance team) to process the payments and to help mediate should there be a conflict (just be sure to always use the PMB) and 2) you can review the provider’s credentials and feedback from other clients. Best of all, it is free to post a job! Strongly recommended!

Anyone else have good solutions? Did anyone have positive results with the Magento job board?

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