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Jason Grimes 
United States
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The classic ProZ.com job system has been updated to support "private job postings", which allow outsourcers to make a job posting accessible only to a specific list of eligible service providers. A similar feature is part of the Connect platform; at the request of some outsourcers, this option has been added to the parallel classic job posting system as well.
In some circumstances, outsourcers who might otherwise post a job at ProZ.com refrain from doing so because they don't want their search activity to be publicly visible (ex. to their clients or competitors). Private job postings allow outsourcers to make these job opportunities available to eligible service providers at ProZ.com. While this might decrease the number of job postings that are visible to any particular user, the goal is that it will increase the overall number of jobs passed through ProZ.com, and improve the relevance of job postings accessible to each provider.
More information is available in the private job posting FAQs.
Best regards,
Jason
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Ralf Lemster
Germany
Local time: 00:15
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English to German
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| | Are these job postings vetted by ProZ.com staff? | Jun 4 |
Thanks, Jason,
Could you please indicate whether these private job postings are being vetted by ProZ.com staff, in line with the rules for public job postings? There is no information about this in the FAQ.
Best regards,
Ralf
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Jason Grimes
United States
Local time: 18:15
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SITE STAFF TOPIC STARTER | | Vetting handled the same way as non-private job postings | Jun 5 |
Ralf Lemster wrote:
Could you please indicate whether these private job postings are being vetted by ProZ.com staff, in line with the rules for public job postings? There is no information about this in the FAQ.
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Hi Ralf,
Vetting is handled exactly the same way as with non-private job postings. Private job postings are identical to other classic job postings, except that only eligible providers are allowed to access them.
Best regards,
Jason
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Ralf Lemster
Germany
Local time: 00:15
Member (2003)
English to German
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Thanks for clarifying.
Best regards,
Ralf
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Andrei Yefimov
Ukraine
Local time: 01:15
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English to Russian
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Hello Jason,
I have a question regarding e-mail notification. I have read FAQ on private job posting and I am a bit confused about the following:
***Note that notifications are sent to users who have reported the same rate offered by the outsourcer or higher. Notifications are not sent for jobs offering a lower rate than that specified in your profile.***
So, these two say basically the same but in different ways, no? I receive notifications if my rate is the same or higher, so why do I not receive them when the job offers a lower rate? My rate is higher in this case too, as per the first statement, no?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Best,
Andrei
[Edited at 2009-06-05 19:19 GMT]
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Jared
Argentina
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Thanks for pointing this out, Andrei. The wording in the FAQ was confusing, I agree.
I updated http://www.proz.com/faq/3178#3178 to read as follows:
Rates: translators will not be notified of jobs where the offered rate (if any) is below the minimum rate declared in their profile. (If necessary, currency conversion is performed using exchange rates from xe.com.) You can edit or enter the rates declared in your profile here.
I hope this is clearer. If not, just let me know.
Best regards,
Jared
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Katalin Horvath McClure
United States
Local time: 18:15
Member (2002)
English to Hungarian
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| | Notification based on rates? What rates? | Jun 5 |
Jared,
I have a few questions about the notification based on rates.
1. What happens with people who do not declare their rates in their profile? Are they getting the notifications?
2. As far as I know, the general job posting form allows the rate to be specified in various units, such as per word, per character, per line, etc., but in my profile I can only specify rates PER WORD.
What happens if the job posting specifies $0.08 per character and my minimum rate is $0.18 per word? (For Japanese source text, a rate of $0.08 per source character is actually higher than $0.18 per target English word.) If the system simply compares the figures, I would not get a notification, right?
3. This relates to a third issue - rates can be specified based on the source text or based on the target text. The current job posting form does not allow specifying whether the rate is source or target based, and the profile rate input cannot be marked either. To stay with my example, a rate of $0.18 per word for Japanese-English translations refers to TARGET words, but I have no way of indicating this.
How are these differences going to be handled by the system?
I am asking this because this is an issue that several of us have been talking about for years now, and it is a real problem because we simply cannot specify our rates in our profiles in a way that is clear and straightforward. What we have now is not conveying the right info, neither to the human eye, nor to a comparison routine in a program, such as this job notification procedure.
The solution would be to change the profile rate structure so we would be able to specify BOTH source and target rates in various units for each language pair. Going back to my example, for Japanese to English translations it is customary to have a "per source character" rate and also a "per target word" rate.
The job poster would specify weather the rate is based on source or target, and the comparison would be done with the correct type of rate in the profiles.
Please comment, thanks
Katalin
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Jason Grimes
United States
Local time: 18:15
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SITE STAFF TOPIC STARTER | | Rate filters only applied when translator's preference can be reasonably determined | Jun 5 |
Hi Katalin,
To be clear, the purpose of the various job notification filters is to let translators receive notification only of jobs that might interest them. If a translator has specified that his minimum rate for English to French is .10 EUR per source word, the system will not bother him with notification of a job offered at .05 EUR per source word.
In cases where this can't be reliably determined (ex. the job rate is specified in units not available in the profile, or the translator has not specified a minimum rate for that language pair), then the rate is not considered when determining whether that translator should receive that notification.
Please note that these filters are not new, they have been part of the job posting system for quite awhile. However, the job notification dashboard has recently been updated in an attempt to clarify how this works.
I hope this helps.
Jason
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John Fossey
Canada
Local time: 18:15
Member (2008)
French to English
| | Determining eligible providers | Jun 18 |
If I am told by the system that I am on the specific list of service providers for a private posting, is it possible to know whether I am on the list by automatic matching by the system or by deliberate choice of the outsourcer?
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Jason Grimes
United States
Local time: 18:15
Member
SITE STAFF TOPIC STARTER | | Will add indication of how you became an eligible provider | Jun 23 |
John Fossey wrote:
If I am told by the system that I am on the specific list of service providers for a private posting, is it possible to know whether I am on the list by automatic matching by the system or by deliberate choice of the outsourcer? |
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Hi John,
This is not possible at this time, but I like the idea. I will add it to the development task list.
Thanks,
Jason
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Geray Lv
China
Local time: 07:15
Member (2008)
English to Chinese
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| | what's Private job postings? | Aug 21 |
Thanks.
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