Poll: Have you ever "played outsourcer" and tried to find yourself in the ProZ.com directory? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Have you ever "played outsourcer" and tried to find yourself in the ProZ.com directory?".
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Susanna Martoni 
Italy
Local time: 04:17
Member (2009)
Spanish to Italian
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Like almost everybody, I think.
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| I don't get the question | May 14, 2010 |
Why do you have to "play outsourcer" to find yourself in the ProZ.com directory? You can just type in your name (username) under Jobs&Directories->Search by name. Or am I missing something here?
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Jenn Mercer
United States
Local time: 22:17
Member (2009)
French to English
| Playing outsourcer is a little different | May 14, 2010 |
Yasutomo Kanazawa wrote:
Why do you have to "play outsourcer" to find yourself in the ProZ.com directory? You can just type in your name (username) under Jobs&Directories->Search by name. Or am I missing something here?
Of course you can find yourself by looking up your name, but when you 'play outsourcer,' you pretend that you do not know your name. Instead, you search for someone who:
-has your language pair
-credentials
-lives in your home country
-has the software which you have
etc
in order to see how likely it would be that an outsourcer would chance upon your name in the directory.
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lillkakan
Local time: 04:17
English to Swedish
| Play outsourcer | May 14, 2010 |
Yasutomo Kanazawa wrote:
Why do you have to "play outsourcer" to find yourself in the ProZ.com directory? You can just type in your name (username) under Jobs&Directories->Search by name. Or am I missing something here?
But "to play outsourcer" means to assume you don't know who you are, you just pretend to be searching for a translator with your language pair and expertise, to see how likely an outsourcer is to find you in the directory (i.e. how high you rank in the list).
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| Another route | May 14, 2010 |
To find quite similar information.
Jobs & directories > My directory ranking
Here you can see if you will appear near the top if someone is looking for a specialist in a certain field. It also tells you how to improve your ranking. What it doesn't take into account is other filters on the outsourcer's part apart from field.
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Michael Harris
Germany
Local time: 04:17
Member (2006)
German to English
... and why should I do that?
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 04:17
Spanish to English
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I consider it to be a waste of time. Do the people who post these queries really have nothing better to do with theirs?
I have got to the stage where when asked for a CV my initial reaction is "google me" ...
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| Thank you Jenn, | May 15, 2010 |
Jenn Mercer wrote: Yasutomo Kanazawa wrote:
Why do you have to "play outsourcer" to find yourself in the ProZ.com directory? You can just type in your name (username) under Jobs&Directories->Search by name. Or am I missing something here? Of course you can find yourself by looking up your name, but when you 'play outsourcer,' you pretend that you do not know your name. Instead, you search for someone who: -has your language pair -credentials -lives in your home country -has the software which you have etc in order to see how likely it would be that an outsourcer would chance upon your name in the directory.
for the detailed explanation.
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| And lillkakan, | May 15, 2010 |
lillkakan wrote: Yasutomo Kanazawa wrote:
Why do you have to "play outsourcer" to find yourself in the ProZ.com directory? You can just type in your name (username) under Jobs&Directories->Search by name. Or am I missing something here? But "to play outsourcer" means to assume you don't know who you are, you just pretend to be searching for a translator with your language pair and expertise, to see how likely an outsourcer is to find you in the directory (i.e. how high you rank in the list).
thank you, too.
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| I suddenly started to get a lot of jobs... | May 15, 2010 |
...so I checked to see why, and sure enough, I had climbed up the ladder.
This is important, folks. I've seldom gotten a job through the job postings, but ranking high in the directory has been very helpful for me.
(I should add that this is more true for one of my language combinations than the other, where the competition is much stiffer.)
[Edited at 2010-05-15 21:38 GMT]
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