Receiving Irrelevant Invitations

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Tracey

• April 05, 2019 18:41

I just started a freelancer account and have been receiving invitations for jobs that have nothing to do with my skillset, which is medical writing. I changed my settings to writer but the invitations for accounting and adminstrative services continue. Is there a way to screen these invitations?

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  Zolbayar

  • April 05, 2019 23:33

  Hi Tracey, 

  I think the best way is to leave only medical writing on your skills list. Unless doing that, you'll receive irrelevant invitations based on general skills you might've entered on your profile.

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  Morgen

  • April 30, 2019 14:20

  I'm getting a lot of clickbait invitations. The websites don't exist. It's ads. Is there a way for PPH to screen these?

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  Rebecca

  • March 05, 2020 16:35

  I just joined and I've gotten about 6 invitations, all outside of my skillset. They seem like bogus jobs. Wish there was a better screening process for this.

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  Jason

  • January 02, 2023 18:01

  This is obviously an ongoing problem, since I have just not found threads about it up to seven years old. 

  The thing is, PPH is really no different from any other platform in this respect. For the past twenty years, I have had the same problem on regular "job board" sites -- I would do a very targeted search, then save my search parameters and request updates on new postings that meet those parameters. At that time, I was searching only for jobs in environmental conservation or biology; this is extremely niche. Every platform was the same: they all sent irrelevant updates, usually for jobs in admin, warehouse, engineering, or similar things.

  I worry about the requirement to complete a project within a certain time frame after setting up my account. How can I complete a project when I can't get the relevant ones, and am constantly invited to irrelevant ones?

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