In the end, it always was a chat session. No need to Skype, so why were a bunch of others pestering me to Skype?Īs a freelancer I've also had clients already posting in the RFP that will do an interview via Skype. Time wasters! With the logo I had one company in Pakistan asking me via Elance for some more details, they then prepared a proposal clearly explaining how they would tackle the job. So why were bunch of freelancers asking me in English to Skype, bragging about their knowledge of Joomla! and telling me in their application that they most certainly can do the job, if I just explain to them via Skype what is written in the error message (it was in German). I wanted the freelancer to provide his application is German to make sure he masters the language, I also posted the job description in German. With the scripts I added the error message I was sent from the company hosting the website and said that I need someone speaking German. This leaves no room for clarifying questions, especially as the two translators I hired didn't have any questions, just did the job. For the two German>Spanish translations I also added the documents and a word count. With regards to the job description, I posted four jobs last year, 2 were a translation from German into Spanish, one was about repairing some scripts in a Joomla! website and one was the creation of a logo. I've always found chat to be extremely time consuming. If people want to use chat, they can also use email. Especially as most don't want to talk on Skype but just use the chat feature. If the job description is clear enough there should be no need to use Skype. God forbid someone would like a better understanding of your project goals and what you do in a more intimate setting than typing responses out.
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