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I would say more than 12% of job postings are fake or suspect in one way or another. Either just trawling, or they're some college kid posting their idea from p

I would say more than 12% of job postings are fake or suspect in one way or another. Either just trawling, or they're some college kid posting their idea from previous drunken night, or someone overemployed outsourcing their jobs, etc. The entire market seems to have turned to a cess-pit recently. I am looking for work (in Rails specifically, but can do C, some js, even 6502, lol), have many years experience in code and IT in general, worked for industry behemoths in the past, and even willing to work for the paltry $10/hr or whatever many of the Indian companies post, at least to start, but because I have no history on the platforms, I get almost no responses to proposals. And you only get credits for a handful of proposals before you're expected to start paying - sorry, but no. maybe I'll buy an actual lottery ticket instead.

wfvr 3y ago
It's not so hard as you make it seem. If you have experience and are not from India or a third world country, raise your price to at least $50/h, and then just submit human-sounding proposals. Remember that most of the proposals clients get are bot-submitted ones, by people who don't have the least experience or capability to deliver what they're promising, and it shows. The competition is very weak, is what I'm getting at. You have to pay to submit proposals, that's true - but a single job you score there will make it worthwhile. It's an investment like any other, and it ends up being much cheaper than adwords or alternatives for finding work.
- jacknews 3y ago
  Sure, 'investment' I'm a western expat in a developing nation, which probably doesn't help, but if I could see some, any kind of, results from proposals I make with free credits, I might accept the argument. As it is, they are rarely even read, so it doesn't matter how human they are. I get no actual work out of it, and I'm quite disinclined to pay to make proposals, when I would also have to pay a percent of any actual work I might 'win'.

wfvr 3y ago

It's not so hard as you make it seem. If you have experience and are not from India or a third world country, raise your price to at least $50/h, and then just submit human-sounding proposals. Remember that most of the proposals clients get are bot-submitted ones, by people who don't have the least experience or capability to deliver what they're promising, and it shows. The competition is very weak, is what I'm getting at. You have to pay to submit proposals, that's true - but a single job you score there will make it worthwhile. It's an investment like any other, and it ends up being much cheaper than adwords or alternatives for finding work.

jacknews 3y ago
Sure, 'investment' I'm a western expat in a developing nation, which probably doesn't help, but if I could see some, any kind of, results from proposals I make with free credits, I might accept the argument. As it is, they are rarely even read, so it doesn't matter how human they are. I get no actual work out of it, and I'm quite disinclined to pay to make proposals, when I would also have to pay a percent of any actual work I might 'win'.