Offshore Hiring – Full-time or Part-time?
Offshore Hiring – Why?
Are you planning to:
- hire a dedicated web designer,
- web developer in India,
- dedicated content writer in India,
- SEO expert in India or a
- dedicated data entry operator in India?
If yes then instead of hiring one in-house hire a dedicated resource in India. With offshore hiring everything remains the same as hiring in-house, except you pay lesser salary and save yourself the time and pain of hiring.
Offshore hiring is a great way to save cost. It can be thought of as an employee of your company just sitting in a remote location at a much less remuneration.
You can choose from any one of the two offshore hiring models in India that we offer depending on your work requirement and budget.
- Full-time Hiring Model
- Part-time Hiring Model
Offshore hiring – Full-time Model
- Each designer, developer, content writer, data entry operator or SEO specialist you hire from us will work for you for 22 days in a month in general to deliver at least 160 hours of work.
- The client will have complete control over the dedicated employee hired and the project.
- The communication between the client and the remote employee may be carried out through email and Skype.
- The offshore dedicated employee will work in our development center in India. He will work from Monday to Friday as per the work hours pre decided between ICO and the client.
- ICO will send the latest invoice of every 30 days. All payments need to be made in advance for the present month
Offshore hiring – Part-time Model
- Each designer or developer or content writer or data entry operator or SEO specialist you hire from us will work for you for 22 days in a month in general to deliver at least 80 hours of work.
- The client will have complete control over the employee and the project.
- The communication between the client and the dedicated offshore employee may be carried out through email and Skype.
- The remote employee will work in our development center in India. He will work from Monday to Friday as per the work hours pre decided between ICO and the client.
- ICO will send the latest invoice of every 30 days. All payments need to be made in advance for the present month
Found it interesting or have any questions? Contact our offshore outsourcing company in India and we will get back to you in less than 24 hours.
How to choose your Website Design Outsourcing Partner
Last week I stumbled upon an article How to Recruit an A-Quality Designer for Your Company. This made me think about discussing the key points which a Client should consider before Web Design Outsourcing.
ICO being an offshore outsourcing company in New Delhi, India 
believes and fulfills all the key points which should be necessary for an Outsourcing need.
If you are skeptical about why should you Outsource, I’d recommend reading the Benefits of Outsourcing to India.
Consider your Web Design Outsourcing company as your Partner, who will help in your business growth in ways explained here.
Hiring offshore employees has not lost it charm still. You may have had many bad experiences in offshore outsourcing.
But…
Those are solely because you blindly believe what your offshore partners promise. The flowery services and heavy cost savings offerings may have lured you to sign the contract. And it didn’t turn out well in for you.
This is the common scenario with companies who have tried hiring offshore and are now reluctant to do it again.
But they are seriously losing the opportunity to save on the huge cost of hiring in house. Also, this bad experience stories travel very fast over our World Wide Web, so the companies who haven’t tried hiring offshore are not considering it at all.
You have to be diligent in choosing your outsourcing partner. Do not just go with the very first choice. Make a checklist to be clear about what factors you just cannot ignore before finalizing one.
Make sure you cross check with the list below before hiring your Web Design Outsourcing Partner in India
Almost all of us must have booked a party venue, right? Do you just book the very first one that comes across you? No, right? You do your due diligence, check reviews online, see similar ones and then chose the best among all.
So, if we do not finalize a party venue just randomly, then here we are talking about our Business. One just cannot, rather should not randomly chose a outsourcing partner randomly, being lazy.
You can check out the positive qualities to look for in developers, and mistakes to avoid when outsourcing development. Once you have a shortlisted list of outsourcing companies, finalize the one which satisfies you by covering the below points.
Portfolio
Check their portfolio to get a glimpse of their previous work. Try to ask dig in to know their knowledge of designing and developing websites. Ask questions about their relevant experience, platform they use, how many clients have worked with them etc.
Some of the offshore services companies especially in web design field do not have enough work samples or testimonials on their websites or in their portfolio.
This is because they generally partner with web design companies in USA or UK and cannot display the work they do for them in their own portfolio.
So how can you check their credentials?
Best way to check their expertise for your work and the quality they provide is by giving them a small project for which you can pay once they successfully do it without any advance payment.
If they seriously want to earn your business they should be willing to do a small test project for you.
Case Studies
Ask them if they case studies where they helped clients in their growth. Also, ask them how much time and money have they saved for their clients in Outsourcing business.
Online Search
Search the company on search engines, Social sites, forums etc and get maximum information about it. Check the reviews, both positive and negative ones, and decide for yourself if they work for you
References
What’s better than hearing straight from the horse’s mouth. Ask for relevant references and and be attentive to what kind of project they did for the reference client. If they satisfied one client with similar development needs, chances are they won’t disappoint you either.
Technology Knowledge
This is crucial. They have to have advanced knowledge of the technology you wish to have your web design project worked on. As this is about Web Design Outsourcing, it is imperative to have thorough and updated knowledge about the tools, techniques and advancements.
Language
First and the most important thing is, do they understand and communicate in your language and how good they are at it? There is no point even discussing business if an off shore company is not able to communicate in English if you are based in US or UK.
You can always check by communicating with them over emails and also have few phone calls with them. This will give you an idea of their writing and speaking skill of English language.
Most tech guys like web developers and web designers are not good at speaking or communication in English Language, but if such companies can provide you a project manager who is good in communicating in English, to monitor your off shore employee and act as a point of contact for you then it is heads up for you.
Such companies may prove reliable as they are willing to take an extra step for you
Location & Holidays
Their location is very important. For example, if you are looking to find an offshore partner in India then you may come across thousands of small companies even one man armies promising flowery deliverables.
But you should be smart enough to check where in India you get quality web designers and developers or any expertise you are looking for.
Few locations in India where you find quality people who can actually deliver what they promise are National Capital Region, NCR, this is the area around New Delhi where all the biggies have their offshore centers, to name a few, IBM, Microsft, Dell, Agilent Technologies, Adobe and many others.
So if they can do that and save billions of $$, why can’t you.
People around this location are also very good in English.
Also ask them to share their Holidays calendar. So that the work schedule and deadlines can be arranged accordingly
Time Zone
Another important aspect while selecting your offshore partner is to check if they work as per your time zone. As this reduces the time gap which is a barrier in timely delivery of work. Otherwise you may need to wait for 24 hrs to get an answer to your questions.
You will find a lot of good Web Design Companies around NCR in India who work during night here and provide services as per your time zone. So you can get updates in a timely manner from such offshore companies.
Some companies also provide a local US number for their clients to reach them which is a very good offering. You can reach them by dialing a local number even if they are far away
Data Security
Data is everything in today’s Business World. So make sure to scrutinize the security measures taken by your to be outsourcing partner to prevent data leakage of your company. Confirm with your partner if they have reliable software, closed circuit television, guards etc. to protect the data
Documents
Sign necessary documents like NDA or SLA to avoid any future conflicts. It’s always better to the paper work in the beginning for a smooth process.
Payments
Fix the payments and mode of payments before assigning work to your partner.
Communication and Customer Service
How can you reach them is another point to be considered while selecting an offshore partner for your web design business?
A good web design outsourcing company will always provide enough modes of communications for example chat, email, phones etc. You must see which way you are comfortable in communicating with them. As you may get into a situation where you are not able to reach your offshore partner when you need them the most.
So phone call is the best and chat applications are added advantage.
Control and Reports
If the companies, you are in conversation with fulfill the above criteria then you must check how much control you have over the resource you hire at their location.
Resource should be accessible over phone and chats while working for you. You must be able to send work directly to the person you hire. Which may be monitored by the project managers or supervisors at their location.
You must ask for daily or weekly or monthly reports for the work done for you.
Code
Ask the outsourcing partner to maintain the Code Standards by keeping the code clean and properly labeled. This will help if someone else from your internal team wants to work with the code later.
Above all, think wisely.
There is a lot which offshore web design outsourcing can offer. You can save thousands of $$ by choosing the right offshore partner for your business.
Contact ICO to hire your Web Design Outsourcing Partner in New Delhi, India and save almost 50% of your in-house hiring cost.
How will Outsourcing help your business?
Benefits of Outsourcing
The understanding of the word “Outsourcing” has gained depths within the last few decades. Initially, Outsourcing simply meant to hire a third party resource without paying a lump sum and get the work done with no compromise on quality.
Now, Outsourcing means to hire the best person offshore or locally and get the job done with complete perfection. All the industries benefits the most by outsourcing in terms of finances, accuracy and perfection.
Benefits of Outsourcing
With the ever growing need of skilled people that at a lower cost has become an issue for all the companies around the globe and hence outsourcing has made a important place for itself in the business sector. Within the last decade we have seen a tremendous growth in the outsourcing business that too to the ones based offshore. From manufacturing plants, customer care services , to technical support outsourcing has become an integral part of major companies. But then for some of us who own a business but not too big still have that doubt of offshore outsourcing is a best practice to follow.
So I have tried to pen down some points for your which can help you decide whether to go for offshore outsourcing or not.
Here are some important benefits of outsourcing
Skilled Labour
One of the primary reasons why companies are looking to outsource their work is to get skilled labour for a particular task that you know you don’t have the resources for. Also it gives you that time you always needed to focus on the main areas of your business which may be sales, marketing brand building etc..
Like for example a lot of Outsourcing is done in the IT sector since countries like India have skilled labour in same. India is one of those countries who are trending in the IT industry because of its resources.
Cost effective
Cost effectiveness is another factor. Not only does it helps you to provide labour at lower costs but also it helps you save in investing in new technology, infrastructure, tools etc. needed to perform that particular job. Hence you end up saving extra from your company expenses.
Building a brand
It helps in brand building- when you have people who have the right skills to do a job you definitely win your customers with the service provided in return building a name for yourself in the market. Believe me a happy customer spreads those word better for you than any ad or marketing campaign.
Gives you an edge
Another thing that gives you an edge by outsourcing business offshore is that you can provide 24*7 service to your customers. So you can take the advantage of the different time zones of the world to help you cater to your customers at any given point.
Concentrate on key areas
Also one can deploy it internal resources to focus and concentrate on key areas of your business. Now that you don’t have to worry about how those other tasks will be taken care of you have all the time in the world to world for the strategic issues of your business.
Contact our Outsourcing Company in Delhi, India
I hope by know you will have a fair idea of how can offshore outsourcing help you grow your business. It can be that light on the other side of the tunnel you have been looking for. But if you still have some fear on your mind contact us.