Ideas

There are a few of such services online that have this type of bid for the job kind of systems.

Thanks for the reading about "my idea", and taking the time to leave a
comment. I have seen one site that allows people to bid on work. I want my idea to be more than that. Therefore, my idea isn't just creating a bidding system, but to have potential employees prove their individual creativity. Maybe I need to revise my idea.

Somehow it seams to be too difficult

Yes, it would difficult for me to do. Therefore, I'm curious to know if there are any CambrianHouse members who know if my envision is possible. I want to bring brillant minds together. Technology has progressed so much. Maybe a potential employee could be given an assignment and someone could film them while they are completing the assignment. The company could see first hand how they work. However, isn't that already done on YouTube?

You mean like http://www.odesk.com ?? I know on there they even have exams of the potential employees to take that would have an impromptu certification in whatever area.

Eww film them while they work, that seems a bit Orwellian don't you think?

I went to http://www.odesk.com and was impressed. Maybe I should edit "my idea" a bit, since it isn't all of my own. AVOTARO would provide potential employees all the software to show a company that they may be the right fit. For instance, odesk has this job listing, "product designed in autocad." AVOTARO will provide autocad. The job seeker would then be able to demonstrate an example of their work on their computer.

Ok, omit the filming part.

Would the hiring company pay a fee to cover the expense of having the skill testing software online/available, plus other expenses and profit? If it did, I could see this as a useful service for the small business market.

thats no small task what kind of skills do you have to make this happen?

have you ever considered scaling it down?

For stevesitv- Yes, the hiring company will pay a fee. Brenden, to be honest with you, the only skills I have are office skills. I want to find professionals who have the expertise in bringing AVOTARO to life. Scaling it down is a valid consideration.

I stated that AVOTARO would supply any software needed to complete a project. The software companies can pay us a % of their cost, if someone purchases their product through the AVOTARO site, since we are advertising their company.

I think you can approach it in a way as an outsourcing network rather than a virtual office.
I mean, many companies work by having employees in an office somewhere working for them.
What I think is "wrong" with this is that employees loose tons of time and money travelling to the offices than actually working and sometimes only half of the employees are working while the work they perform can be done at home.

The idea of outsourcing would be kind of beneficial since you only contact the people you need to, they work at home efficiently, the companies save a lot of money this way and they are not limited to employees living in the same town since they can even live in another country.

So you can build an exposure network where everyone looking for job would state their skills, portfolio or resume, including an active or inactive function (so employers know which candidates are available to work at the moment) and a ranking for each candidate (something like ebay)
Also when a candidate receives a job it goes to inactive mode until both sides (employer and employee) accept the satisfactory end of a project and only at that time that candidate is available to receive a new job.

Don’t know if this could be helpful to your idea.

Yes, that was very helpful!

Maybe I should change the name to FOTARO- which stands for From Outsourcing to a Real Office. Let me emphasize that I just don't want my site to list job seeker's skills, resumes, and/or portfolios, and hope that companies found our site. I want to help the job candidates by submitting their credentials to companies and each candidate will have their own
personal job coach.
With the high price of gas and the economy, some companies will need to have their employees work at home.

Outsource to India:
http://www.outsource2india.com/

Thanks for the url address.