Yesterday while I was putting the writing job list together the idea of emailing some of the people posting ads and asking for some feedback occurred to me. The goal would be two-fold:
- Alert employers that they can list jobs with me directly for free.
- Gathering information that would be helpful to you, the potential applicant.
Here are the questions I’ve got so far:
- Where online do you post your writing, editing, blogging and translation jobs?
- Do you post pay? If not, why not?
- Are you able to let applicants know you received their application?
- What’s the most common error that causes you do throw an application out?
- What kind of responses warms your heart and tempts you to hire that person?
What other questions would you like to suggest? Let me know in comments.
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I would ask if they could point applicants to articles that were especially well received, so that applicants could get an idea of what flies stylistically and content-wise; I suppose examples of articles that “failed” to connect would also be good, although I doubt folks would share such info.
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