Mechanical Turk Vs oDesk

                             Hello friends, I hope you all heard about these sites, they are the top online job providers in Internet. As I say they are top, because they have their own unique methods and ways for providing job. In this post I compare these sites and giving you a brief study about how this works.

                             

Amazon Mechanical Turk: Artificial Artificial Intelligence

                Amazon Mechanical turk which usually called by its nick name “mturk”, it is a crowd sourcing internet marketplace. Mturk is completely different from oDesk, in each part (else we receive money from both). It is too easy to learn and make money from it. But you have to spend some time on it. It has only few things to look up, and a few mistakes won’t affect your future jobs. But only problem is we get paid as a little amount from each job, about .01$ to 1$. In mturk we call jobs as HIT’s (Human Intelligence Task) and there are no selection procedures for HITs in mturk. If you are qualified for a HIT you can do that HIT, it is as simple as that. If you are a constant user in this you can make minimum of 2$ per day, it is 60$ a month. There are no limits for jobs; you can do as much as you can. They will provide a detailed work history in your dashboard and they also provide a contact facility with your clients for clarifying your doubts. You can withdraw your money by either Amazon gift cards or via check; check is only applicable in India and United states. In most countries withdrawal method is a problem, gift cards are not so acceptable for some users. And about checks; they will take 4$ for every withdrawal, which is not so bad for me.

                         As a conclusion I say Amazon mechanical turk is more easy and less serious comparing to oDesk but it takes a long time to collect money. Its withdrawal methods are less accepted according to oDesk. You can do jobs as much as you can. And at last it is not that much complicated.

oDesk: Love The Way You Work

                         oDesk is a fast growing global job marketplace, which provide jobs in all categories. As a freelancer for last few years I must say oDesk is a serious company compared to Amazon Mechanical Turk, in here you have to do some efforts for getting paid, but if you do that you will get paid in a fair manner. First of all you have to built a complete profile for your account. If you signed up in oDesk account, you don’t get jobs just by sitting and searching. You have to take some efforts over your profile; your profile is your resume for clients. You have to be good in writing English, because you have to write your own, unique cover letter for every job.  Clients only select by looking at persons profile, it shows your abilities and work history and also look at your cover letter. So you have to keep your oDesk profile up-to-date. Another factor that affecting your career is feedback’s, they play a major role in selecting you. If you have a few bad feedback's, it will surely affect your account. In oDesk there is a limit for applying job, it depends on your job quota. You can increase your job quota by completing your profile and passing tests. That’s why I call oDesk a serious company. But in the case of money, you can earn more through oDesk; minimum of 1$ (approx.) for every job. One of most difficult thing in oDesk is learning their procedures; it takes some time for everyone. Odesk have great tools which make them unique from others, their tools are so advanced and so user friendly. And a great advantage of oDesk is its withdrawal methods, it suits for people from anywhere on the world.

                          As a conclusion oDesk have better tools, better withdrawing methods and there is more MONEY. But you won’t get money in a consistent manner; you have to take lot of efforts for it. You have to be good in your English for getting more jobs. You have a limit in applying jobs. And oDesk is little complicated compared to Amazon Mechanical Turk.