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Staff: Can you do something about the ubiquitous big recruitments for small jobs?
Thread poster: Łukasz Gos-Furmankiewicz
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Job offers Jun 24, 2016

Lingua 5B wrote:

"We have a 20 word job, please send us your CV". Why do you require my CV for a 20 word job that you will pay 5 euros? CVs are considered for big projects/tenders or full-time jobs.

I fix all this by setting my minimum project rate.

There is this one agency that were sort of OK when I first started working for them. It was mostly 2k-10k word jobs that they were sending. Then all of a sudden they kept sending jobs worth something like €12. After they have sent 3-4 such jobs in a row, I asked them not to send me jobs below my minimum charge. However, they still kept sending them (each time a new name, a new PM). I probably had to repeat the request 10 times but it still kept going on and on (like they were ignoring what I repeated 10 times).



Instead of repeating your request there's a much faster solution: hit the key marked "delete". Eventually they will get the drift.
 
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