Freelancer is an Australian based freelance Marketplace website, which allows potential employers to post jobs it also has a large database of potential candidates. This can be a great place to find candidates however a lot of recruiter do not search here. The reason is simple they do not know how. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and true tool, a simple search with some extras, and a whole lot of website searching
So to source within Freelancer you simply need to use a skill known as xraying, like the one below.
site:freelancer.com/u developer PHP (“United States” OR “US”)
Then use your social detective skills and you are set.
If you need more info on X-raying see my blog post http://www.recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blogs/seeing-what-is-really-there-a
Until next week may the source be with you!!