Invitations irrelevant to skillsets

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Code and More LLP

• February 24, 2016 08:31

More and more buyers seem to send invitations out at random, with no regard to whether sellers have relevant skills or not. You need to do something about this: perhaps highlighting sellers who do not seem to have relevant skills, or limiting the number of invitations per job

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  Kelly

  • February 24, 2016 20:13

  Hi Graeme,

  Thank you very much for your suggestion. I will put it forward to our products team.

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  Zoe

  • May 05, 2017 12:45

  Just bumping this one - a filter for sellers to reject invitations automatically below a certain price level would be useful. I know that everyone's perception of what an expert rate and what isn't is different, but I've rejected five this morning which would have worked out at £8 per 1000 words. 

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  Peter

  • October 11, 2017 08:26

  I too receive invitations for skills that are not listed on my skillset. This shouldn't be possible on the site. It makes PPH look very unprofessional.

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  Laura

  • December 04, 2018 00:25

  I just joined, and all the offers I've received so far have fallen in this category.  Very frustrating for a new member to only be offered completely irrelevant jobs.

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  Simon

  • December 04, 2018 11:03

  Do the buyers actually send the invites? I saw a question on here recently wanting to know who had been invited to bid on their project. That seemed an odd question because I had assumed that when a buyer sends invites they have chosen the freelancers specifically.
  
  I find most of the invites are not too far off topic, but the recommended jobs are quite random. I am a software developer and in the last week it was suggested that I apply for a job as a painter and decorator and a couple of telephone support jobs requiring fluency in Polish or German, which I don't speak and I don't do telephone support. There are certain words in a project description that trigger the job suggestions. For me, one is "window" and the other is "language". So when somebody needed a dead pigeon removing from their garden after it had collided with a window, the project was sent to me as a recommended job.
  
  It is important to realise that the buyer does not add the tags for the project. PPH do that just by matching words out of context.

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