—Bosnia and Herzegovina— I need 5 websites for recruiting freelance electrical engineers in Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Status: Closed
  • Premie: $25
  • Mottatte bidrag: 7
  • Vinner: sisicirnes

Konkurransesammendrag

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CLARIFICATION
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This is a research contest. This contest requires that you *FIND* five websites that meet my criteria (my specifications).

You do *not* need to build any websites whatsoever for this contest. I chose a bad title for this contest.


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PRIZES
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I will award three prizes:

25 USD for first prize.
15 USD for second prize.
10 USD for third prize.

USD= US dollars

Sure. You probably know that USD= US dollars. But some people reading this might not know that.


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WHAT YOU NEED TO SUBMIT
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Contestants need to submit the following two things:

—ONE—
Five URLs (websites) for conventional and unconventional ways for finding independent freelance electrical engineers in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

I do not want twenty or thirty mediocre URLs (websites). That is why I am restricting you to only five URLs (websites). Please do not submit more than five URLs (websites).

and

—TWO—
No more than a total of two hundred words describing how you suggest I use the five URLs (websites).

Why I am restricting the number of words? Please see my comments below.

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NO DUPLICATES
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If an applicant has already submitted a particular URL such as:

www.XYZ/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina_electrical_engineers.com

for this contest you may not submit that same URL.


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BACKGROUND
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I am looking to recruit independent freelance electrical engineers to help me create an Internet of Things (IoT) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things product.

If you live in Bosnia and Herzegovina you know all of the following. I am trying to persuade you that I have a sense of the difficult economic realities that electrical engineers face in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

As you know, like many countries in the Balkans, wages for engineers in Bosnia and Herzegovina are relatively low. Yet, as you would likely surmise, many talented electrical engineers live in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Many electrical engineers in Bosnia and Herzegovina work at jobs that pay them perhaps 600 USD to 1000 USD per month. No they and their family are not starving. But they are unlikely to be saving much money either.

In order amass money (save money) to buy—for example—a car or an apartment or a house, many talented electrical engineers are eager to earn extra money. Of course, they know about freelancing.

But even if they try using sites like Freelancer.com and Upwork.com they are probably discouraged. Very discouraged. Typically these guys are neither salespeople nor business people. But to succeed on sites like Freelancer.com and Upwork.com sales and business savvy are necessary.


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SCHEDULE
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I am very flexible when it comes to the number of hours an electrical engineer would need to work. I do not intend to have one electrical engineer complete the entire project. Rather, I intend to have several electrical engineers simultaneously working on the project. As a result an electrical engineer might twenty hours one week but then zero hours the next two weeks. It will depend largely on each electrical engineer’s availability.


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WHERE I HAVE ADVERTISED IN THE PAST
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I have advertised on:

- Freelancer.com (obviously)
- Upwork.com
- Guru.com
- Fiverr.com.

I have been in contact with scores of electrical engineers. I have tested dozens of them. Most of them have not passed the test but I have given them. Therefore I am still looking for more electrical engineers.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Please see the attachment called, “Additional information for 5 websites.txt.”

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“Irenes won first prize in my contest. He did an excellent job of researching for me. He seems like the kind of person who has a lot of energy and wants to "get things done" quickly and effectively. I am more of a thinker than a doer. I need "doers" like Irnes to help me get things done otherwise my plans never actually materialize.”

Profilbilde Shtm, United States.

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  • Shtm
    Konkurranseholder
    • 6 år siden

    I rated the submission from freelancer named "Senad M"

    Total Score 6= 0+4+7+?+0-5

    -5 for violating “(No more than a total of two hundred words describing how you suggest I use the five URLs (websites). “ in contest rules.

    Below is my feedback for the submission from the freelancer named “Matija”...

    1. https://jobrack.eu/pricing/

    0 out of 10 (zero points)

    In… “Additional information for 5 websites.txt” I indicated

    I am willing to pay a maximum of $10 to post each advertisement (job posting) for a *freelance* electrical engineer.

    I'm *not* interested in websites that require me to pay any monthly fee whatsoever such as:

    https://www.workhoppers.com/en/plans...

    • 6 år siden
  • Shtm
    Konkurranseholder
    • 6 år siden

    ...2. https://www.olx.ba/pretraga?trazilica=posao&t=&kategorija=2302

    4 out of 10

    I saw many more jobs for electricians than electrical engineers. Perhaps I'm wrong but I doubt the electrical engineers I'm looking for use this website to find work.

    3. https://www.job.ba

    7 out of 10

    This site does not have many jobs but it does have some electrical engineering jobs....

    • 6 år siden
  • Shtm
    Konkurranseholder
    • 6 år siden

    ...4. https://www.klix.ba/dojavi-vijest

    Dojavi vijest i postani Klix čitatelj-reporter!

    Ako ste svjedočili nekom događaju i želite podijeliti informacije, fotografije ili video javite se portalu Klix.ba.

    I did not evaluate this webpage.

    I did not intend to sign up for this website merely to view this web page but you may submit a PDF to me so that I can easily judge this web page.

    5. Personal Contact

    0 out of 10 (zero points)

    This is irrelevant to this contest.

    • 6 år siden
  • Shtm
    Konkurranseholder
    • 6 år siden

    I rated the submission from freelancer named "Matija"

    Total Score 8= 0+0+0+0+8

    Below is my feedback for the submission from the freelancer named “Matija”...


    1. http://bhkcigre.ba/

    zero out of 10

    This appears to be an association related large-scale power generation such as public utilities that sell electricity to residences and businesses. This does not appear to be even tangentially related to electrical engineers I am looking to recruit....

    • 6 år siden
  • Shtm
    Konkurranseholder
    • 6 år siden

    ...2. and 3. and 5. https://www.posao.ba/#!searchjobs;job=104164 and http://www.boljiposao.com/djelatnosti/elektrotehnika-i-strojarstvo/ and
    http://www.poslovi.ba/job/luminos-doo/inzinjer-elektrotehnike-26356


    zero out of 10 for all three websites

    boljiposao.com are listed in the document I created and attached to this contest which I named “Additional information for 5 websites.txt”

    I copied and pasted the following text from “Additional information for 5 websites.txt”...

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    MUCH EXTRA INFORMATION
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    I am aware of sites likes:

    - poslovi.ba
    - posao.ba
    - boljiposao.com...

    4.
    https://ba.jooble.org/posao-in%C5%BEenjer-elektrotehnike

    8 out of 10

    Although this website does not specialize in jobs for electrical engineers it appears that electrical engineers probably do look at this website when they are interested in finding employment....

    • 6 år siden
  • Shtm
    Konkurranseholder
    • 6 år siden

    I rated the submission from freelancer named "Aida"

    Total Score 11= 4+4+3+0+0

    Below is my feedback for the submission from the freelancer named “Aida”...


    1. www.fzzz.ba/

    4 out of 10

    Perhaps I'm wrong but I doubt that electrical engineers look at this website to find employment. Despite all of their claims in my experience government websites usually do not help people find jobs. I suppose that These websites like this are potentially public relations stunts designs to persuade citizens of the government is actually working diligently to help them find employment.

    I did notice the links http://www.fzzz.ba/stranica-linkovi...

    • 6 år siden
  • Shtm
    Konkurranseholder
    • 6 år siden

    ...2. www.zzrs.org/

    4 out of 10

    This website seems similar to www.fzzz.ba/ therefore my score and review are similar.


    3. http://uiers.org/index.php/lat/

    3 out of 10

    The last update to this website looks like it was July 2016. It looks like a zombie website. Also this page has no outgoing links http://uiers.org/index.php/lat/korisni-linkovi That is a bad sign....

    • 6 år siden
  • Shtm
    Konkurranseholder
    • 6 år siden

    ... 4. https://forum.klix.ba (not www.forum.klix.ba)

    zero out of 10 (no points whatsoever)

    The freelancer named "Irnes S". had previously submitted https://forum.klix.ba/etf_inzenjer_stanje-u-bosni-t90727.html


    5. www.skyscrapercity.com

    zero out of 10 (no points whatsoever)

    Perhaps I misunderstood something, but this website does not seem to be relevant whatsoever to electrical engineers looking for employment.

    • 6 år siden
  • lsmircic
    lsmircic
    • 6 år siden

    Hi, please get in contact with me, I thnik I can help you with this.

    • 6 år siden
    1. Shtm
      Konkurranseholder
      • 6 år siden

      You are welcome to enter this contest but because you are an electrical engineer I infer you might want to work with me as electrical engineer. I am not interested in working with Croatians. Those beautiful beaches bring in many tourists and much foreign currency. That drive up wages compared to other Balkan countries.

      • 6 år siden
  • Shtm
    Konkurranseholder
    • 6 år siden

    I rated the submission from freelancer named "Rijad S."

    Total Score 30= 0+0+10+10+10

    Below is my feedback for the submission from the freelancer named “Rijad S”...

    1. https://www.facebook.com/BHMakers/
    zero out of 10 (no points whatsoever)

    The page was last updated March 2016. It seems essentially useless to me.


    2. https://www.facebook.com/pg/BihSky/about/
    zero out of 10 (no points whatsoever)

    Searching on Google for “facebook 181507731952982” brought up https://www.facebook.com/pg/BihSky/about/ It seems essentially useless to me...

    • 6 år siden
  • Shtm
    Konkurranseholder
    • 6 år siden

    ... 3. https://www.facebook.com/pg/escetf/about/?ref=page_internal
    10 out of 10

    This URL appears to be *precisely* the sort of website I am looking for!


    4. https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/Internet-of-Things-Sarajevo/
    10 out of 10

    This URL appears to be *precisely* the sort of website I am looking for!


    5. https://www.facebook.com/IBUesd/
    10 out 10

    This URL appears to be *precisely* the sort of website I am looking for!

    • 6 år siden
  • Shtm
    Konkurranseholder
    • 6 år siden

    I am not interested in universities. Please do not recommend a university to me. But I am interested in university student groups. What is the difference? Universities are usually bureaucratic and difficult to deal with whereas university student groups are usually a group of students who have a common interest and are eager to find part-time work.

    • 6 år siden
  • Shtm
    Konkurranseholder
    • 6 år siden

    I rated the submission from freelancer named "mirzahaskic."

    Total Score 14= 0+0+7+2+5

    Below is my feedback for the submission from the freelancer named “mirzahaskic”...

    1. boljiposao.com
    zero out of 10

    2. poslovi.ba
    zero out of 10 (no points whatsoever)

    Both boljiposao.com and poslovi.ba sites are listed in the document I created and attached to this contest which I named “Additional information for 5 websites.txt”

    I copied and pasted the following text from “Additional information for 5 websites.txt”...

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    MUCH EXTRA INFORMATION
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    I am aware of sites likes:

    - poslovi.ba
    - posao.ba
    - boljiposao.com...

    • 6 år siden
  • Shtm
    Konkurranseholder
    • 6 år siden

    ... 3. https://www.klikdoposla.ba/
    7 out of 10
    I like the site but it is not targeted at engineers.

    4. http://www.agencijaspektar.com/cat/trazite-radnike/ 2 out of 10
    This site seems to offer newspaper ads. I doubt the electrical engineers I am targeting look in newspapers for jobs. Perhaps I am wrong. I don’t know.

    5. mojakarijera.info
    5 out 10
    This site seems like a general job website. I suppose some of the electrical engineers I am targeting look here for full-time employment.

    • 6 år siden
  • Shtm
    Konkurranseholder
    • 6 år siden

    To enter the contest please submit a JPG, PNG and GIF. In addition to avoid requiring that I transcribe the links (manually type them in) I would appreciate it if you would also copy and paste them into a message. In other words, submit two things: JPG, PNG and GIF and text.

    • 6 år siden
  • Shtm
    Konkurranseholder
    • 6 år siden

    Below is my feedback I posted to the freelancer named "Irnes S"...

    • 6 år siden
    1. Shtm
      Konkurranseholder
      • 6 år siden

      ... If I were to be allowed to post my freelance gig (freelance job) on this forum I suppose I would likely receive several replies from interested and qualified applicants.

      3) https://www.ibu.edu.ba/en/burch-news/2017/burch-students-won-the-1st-place-on-regional-energy-forum.html

      This was my fault. I should have excluded universities. Generally I'm not very interested in dealing with universities. They tend to be your bureaucratic and officious. I might be wrong but I assume that they are generally uninterested in working with small business people looking to hire freelancers for gigs.

      On a scale 1 to 10 I rate it an 4 for my needs but I will increase your score for this to 8 because I failed to exclude universities....

      • 6 år siden
    2. Shtm
      Konkurranseholder
      • 6 år siden

      ... On a scale 1 to 10 I rate it an 4 for my needs but I will increase your score for this to 8 because I failed to exclude universities.

      4) https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?facetGeoRegion=%5B%22ba%3A0%22%5D&keywords=Electrical%20Engineer&origin=FACETED_SEARCH&page=1

      On a scale 1 to 10 I rate it an 1 for my needs.

      This appears to be merely the result of the LinkedIn search. I could have easily performed this search on my own.


      5) http://www.elitesecurity.org/f51-Elektronika

      On a scale 1 to 10 I rate it a 10 for my needs!

      See my comments about 2) www.elektronika.ba/forum above. They appear to apply to this as well.

      Thanks,

      Ken

      • 6 år siden
  • Shtm
    Konkurranseholder
    • 6 år siden

    This project is best suited to people who were born and raised in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I do not want you to waste your time on this project. Therefore, if you were not born and raised in Bosnia and Herzegovina please do not submit anything to this contest. Frankly, I thought that was obvious but I received a submission from a freelancer from Latvia who was apparently not born and raised in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Therefore, I decided to clearly stipulate this point.

    • 6 år siden
  • Shtm
    Konkurranseholder
    • 6 år siden

    Naturally I want many freelancers to submit entries for this contest. I am concerned that if some clever freelancers were to assume that other contestants would be likely to spend much time typing up verbose (wordy, lengthy) entries, these clever freelancers might be disinclined to enter this contest because they might erroneously hypothesize that I am looking for verbiage (words) instead of URLs (websites). Actually I am primarily interested in the URLs (websites) not the verbiage (words). Therefore, please do not submit more than 200 words.

    • 6 år siden
  • OoMuu
    OoMuu
    • 6 år siden

    Ummm....Sorry man, good luck but we are people too, who have bills, and families. A website for (possibly) 25 Dollars? Most respectable web designers wont even get out of bed for that.

    • 6 år siden
    1. Shtm
      Konkurranseholder
      • 6 år siden

      Thanks for you feedback. You misunderstood the project. I do not want you to *build* any websites whatsoever. I want you to *find* 5 websites that meet my criteria.

      • 6 år siden

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