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Urgent! Formatting required in Word

$250-750 AUD

Cancelled
Posted about 11 years ago

$250-750 AUD

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Project Description: Contractors, show your support for this post by bidding. Just bid! Dear Hiring Managers, did you know that when you specify that a contractor must have “Qualifications” US English Skills, or MS Word skills that the contractor must pay $5.00 to do each test? Did you also know that you are missing out on a lot of talented people because they either cannot afford to “take the test” or just refuse to pay that amount just to prove they have English skills (in my case). For most contractors having to take a (paid) test severely erodes into their earnings. Now consider for a moment, just maybe the contractor already has these skills. Why should a contractor pay $5 to do each test when all they can sometimes hope to get is only $5 or $10 for a job, and then only if they are successful. So, their hard earned money goes into doing tests to prove they can do the job which 9 times out of 10 they don't get. Who wins in this situation? Only Freelancer. The contractor cannot bid because of the restriction and the employer misses out on possibly the best person for the job. On the other hand, Employers get to post jobs, as I have found out, for free and no other strings attached. The employer gets their transcription, or their web site, or their report or whatever for a reasonable price but it's not really a win-win situation. Employers, please thing about this please. Make a difference! Say something about this to Freelance! Is this fair? Should these be absorbed by the employee? They've already paid lots of money for their courses or degrees and then now have to pay again to prove they can do it. Freelancer should be offering these tests for Free. oDesk and Elance, their competitors, definitely do. The contractors should not have to pay money to prove their skills, and then, to make it worse, bid lower just to accommodate the percentage rate that Freelancer take for each job. Business is business, but come on guys, let’s keeps the playing field real (and fair). Freelancer needs to play a fair game for both the employee and employer. Until they can get their act together I say to all contractors I say "move over to the competitors" You can get a better deal than this! Let the employees take the tests for free. Let the truly qualified ones be able to showcase their skills. I'll probably get severely reprimanded or banned for this, but after spending a couple of weeks perusing this site I don't really care. If I have made some impression or made someone (contractor or employer or Freelancer) think about it then I have achieved what I needed to do in this message.
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Dear sir, I Understood your project need very clearly so I am very interested to work with you. you can see the link of my portfolio site. A similar sample that you want is given to your Personal Massage box. If you would like to give me this opportunities to make you happy with my design. Kind regards Shabir
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Expert team specializing in open sources like Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Open Cart, PHP Frameworks like Yii, Zend, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Seagull, Symfony and more with latest web trends and standards are ready to start. Thank you!
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I am ready to start this project. thanks
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Hi Betty, agreed with Keyed, it sucks, but what can I do? still collecting pennies from this suck situation.
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I can do this job in professional manner. I have 10 years experience of MS Word formating. My top priority is quality of work and client's satisfaction. I work till 100% satisfaction of the client. Please consider me for this task.
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well written. I am 50 years and have been using computers for some 30 years now. I don't need certificate of a $5 test to prove that I know how to use ms word. Thanks for giving words to my feelings. -- Rawat
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New freelancer. I've virtually got no chance to get a decent project. And that's mainly because most of the projects listed are fake, posted from 0 feedback users
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I'm ready to start
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Hey Betty, I'm an Aussie ex-pat and I really get where you're coming from. What's really interesting as well, is how many people have an automatic response thing going on, so they don't even read the job. That's a real eye opener too. Yep it sucks to pay for exams, it sucks when I accept a job, get docked the money, then the person disappears. It sucks having a completion rate which is seemingly low, but I've finished ALL my jobs on here - it's just some haven't been paid through FL so my stats look bad. And it sucks having employers NOT understanding how FL works, thinking I might only finish 50% of jobs, etc, etc. It really sucks having Indian/Pak/Sri Lankan (sorry but it's true) putting on fake jobs all the time that are captcha ones instead of what is advertised. Just crap. Yes, I've just opened accounts with Odesk, Guru etc, where not only the work, but the treatment by the site is better.
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100% agree with your suggestion..
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Dear Hiring Manager, I appreciate your feeling about freelancers who have lot of experience and skills but not getting any works. I'm working in this field from last 25 years and can do any kinds of formating jobs in MS Word, MS Excel etc. but not yet getting any jobs. If you give me a chance I can show you my work abilities. Krishna
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Pleasant to work with, team player and able to work under minimal supervision. Hardworking, dynamic, confident, result oriented. I'll be the best for this data entry job because i have done a lot of jobs of data entry with other local employers before.
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