Jun 24, 2019 06:31:12 PM by Bettye U
This morning an editing job caught my eye. The client said that familiarity with the topic of the manuscript would be helpful. I read the ad again, thinking I must have missed the topic.
It wasn't there.
This evening I saw a job for medical editing, temporary, on site (I'm not even sure this is allowed on Upwork?). But I looked anyway to see where the client was located.
The only location given was "United States."
There's something seriously wrong with this picture...I see many other ads that don't give basic information..."I've written a book I need edited..." with no information about whether it's fiction or nonfiction, what genre of fiction or the subject matter for nonfiction.
Isn't this even more important now that people have to pay for their connects?
Jun 24, 2019 06:34:41 PM by Preston H
re: "This evening I saw a job for medical editing, temporary, on site (I'm not even sure this is allowed on Upwork?)"
Upwork allows both medical editing jobs.
Upwork allows temporary jobs.
Upwork allows on-site jobs.
Jun 24, 2019 10:25:36 PM by Bettye U
Preston,
I was actually referring only to the on-site job, as I've done the other two, but thank you for being so thorough.
Jun 24, 2019 06:50:42 PM by Kholleras I
Bettye U wrote:
Isn't this even more important now that people have to pay for their connects?
It is for people who are willing to work with such clients. If they are even legit clients. Lately I'm seeing more of such unusually poorly described jobs and job posts that are literally nothing but a template: "We are {name of company} in {name of industry}." I suspect people are playing with the system.
Jun 25, 2019 08:00:07 AM by Phyllis G
Generally speaking, I choose to assume that clients who cannot get it together to write reasonably informative job posts would be giant PITAs to work with, and keep scrolling. I agree with you it's even less tolerable now that connects aren't free. When I feel particularly aggravated by one, I click "flag as inappropriate" and select the reason "there is no clearly defined deliverable". I'd like to think UW relays that to the client so they can clean up their act, but who knows?
Presumably, charging for connects will encourage the lower tiers of FLs to self-select off the platform. Maybe the same thing will happen for the lower tiers of clients as their posts get ignored.
Jun 25, 2019 08:04:41 AM by Preston H
Obviously post a job to do on-site work, without specifying the location, is senseless.
But this isn't Upwork's fault.
Clients are not perfect, and often their job postings are not perfect.
A client may very much want to hire somebody to on-site work, but forget to specify what city she is in.
She might assume that because she entered the name of her city at one point, Upwork will display that as part of her job posting.
More experienced and more serious clients create better job postings.
Jun 25, 2019 08:03:21 AM by Anonymous-User A
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