From Trainee to Business Executive – Hamza Khalid’s Vision for eCommerce and The Freelance Marketplace

Leadership and Insights 30 Jan 2025 297 Views

1. What prompted you to start pursuing eCommerce and freelancing, and how did your career start?

I joined as a trainee at AMZ DOC, which specializes in eCommerce services. With time, I worked my way up the ranks, becoming Team Leader, Operations, Management, and ultimately the General Manager of Business Development.

Each of these roles gave me first-hand experience in the challenges and nuances of each position, serving as a great learning opportunity. Over the years, this type of learning has helped me develop my leadership style and realize the importance of building team relationships that support business strategies.

Seeing the potential to develop something new, I made the decision to leave AMZ DOC to spearhead the development of 247Tasker. This platform sought to improve how freelancers are hired, as well as internal processes, by providing a simple global solution to connect service providers with businesses and individuals.

2. What is the impact of AMZ DOC on your career development and style of leadership?

I owe a lot to AMZ DOC for my career. Its diverse culture made it perfect for professional and personal development.

During my internship, I was part of several training programs that perfect my knowledge in eCommerce. With time progressed, I was given leadership roles where I was able to strategize and operationalize.

At AMZ DOC, I had a wide-ranging portfolio and thus was able to look at different industries, markets, and consumers. This helped me in setting strategies tailored to different business objectives. The mentorship I had and the company’s collaborative culture were key in enabling me to spearhead projects such as 247Tasker, which seeks to disrupt the freelance industry.

3. What sets 247Tasker apart from its rivals and what inspired its inception?

For some time now, there have existed problems with the status quo of the freelance economy and so we made an attempt with 247Tasker in order to try to solve some of them. At AMZ DOC, where we performed eCommerce services efficiently, we thought of developing a platform that would help businesses connect with freelancers from all over the world.

Service providers on the other hand can use 247Tasker for automatic hiring towards remote or onsite jobs. For business and individual users, the hassle of searching for potential candidates for specific roles is also automated. The platform is designed so that it is simple to use, payments are secured, and there are no unreasonable costs charged for having this efficient service.

247Tasker is unique in its devotion to quality, accountability, and relationship-building between clients and freelancers. It is our firm belief that this is the path towards changing the status quo of the industry and holy grails.

4. How are the goals that 247Tasker set and the challenges that businesses and freelancers face today addressed?

The skills gap has become a serious in chemical engineering because businesses are always on the lookout for talents whereas freelancers are obliged to price themselves competitively yet showcase their complete range of skills.

247Tasker solves this problem by combining sophisticated algorithms with a stringent selection process that enables businesses to obtain the best talent suited to their requirements. Freelancers, on the other hand, are guaranteed to get business exposure through a platform that readily advertises their skills.

Trust and transparency define the very backbone of our platform. By allowing direct communication and equitable remuneration, we are creating conditions that enable businesses and freelancers to work in a fulfilling environment.

5. Describe the working process of 247Tasker

Hiring freelancers for a competition is a tedious task, but thanks to 247Tasker, things are beginning to change. The magic lies in creating an account and posting a job by detailing the description of the project as well as the skill set needed. 247Tasker provides you with the best-suited freelancer profiles along with their work samples for you to choose from.

Communication, note and file exchange, and even task assignments can be done in a single place. Once you have identified the accurate freelancer, you can begin by working on the project collaboratively on our platform. Freelancer services are paid on a pay-for-approved-work-base for your ability to rest assured about the quality. All payments are processed securely.

6. How is 247Tasker unique from contemporary freelancing sites?

247Tasker combines remote and in-person services. Besides providing remote freelance jobs, we also offer local and serviceable jobs that are usually required on demand, such as house cleaning, plumbing, car servicing, and even web development.

Instead of being stuck calculating how you would get to the office after your car broke down, you can simply use 247Tasker to locate a mechanic that is close by. The same applies when you are looking for a carpenter for home renovation, you can directly book a carpenter with the help of the platform.

With low transaction costs, faster payments, and elaborate verification, we have created an authentic and reliable market, thus enabling 247Tasker to make the marketplace more trustworthy.

7. What do you expect 247Tasker to look like in 5 years?

We plan to have a speakable name in the freelancing market, making 247Tasker more remarkable, affordable, reliable, and reputable, as well as set global expansion as our goal.

Integrating new AI tools to personalize matches for users while enhancing workflows is a top priority for us. Earning opportunities for a larger audience through underserved markets is also something we want to accomplish.

Moreover, we want to help businesses facilitate and implement remote work policies through education and support in understanding the freelance economy. This will enable them to survive the changing world.

8. What guidance could you provide to future entrepreneurs focused on eCommerce or freelancing?

I think the best advice I would offer someone venturing into eCommerce or freelancing is the get a good grasp of the market at hand. Figure out what your audience needs most and provide a carefully curated solution to address the issues.

It is equally important to build a team that shares your objective. Form alliances with persons who share your ambitions –wide success is not achieved alone.

Being flexible is the most important. Industries such as these change regularly, and to remain competitive there will be a need to have a growth mindset and be willing to change direction when the time comes.

9. Do you have any concluding remarks you wish to present?

The transformation from AMZ DOC into 247Tasker has been remarkable, and it is a journey propelled by vision, resilience, and teamwork.

All the opportunities I have received in my life have played a role in building my career, for which I will forever be grateful. I also hope that I can motivate people to seek innovation without any fear. Working together, we can achieve a reality where companies and people flourish.