How NOT to post a job offer (isn't there an important bit missing?) Inițiatorul discuției: Rad Graban (X)
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Rad Graban (X) 
Regatul Unit
Local time: 07:37
din engleză în slovacă
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Job description:
We are looking to appoint translators to work on an ongoing project with us. Each week for four weeks, we will have text in English from a series of anti-smoking campaigns. The content will be very straightforward and non-technical.
We will need this text translated urgently, and have a budget of £250 per week (i.e. £1,000 in total for each translator). If you are interested in taking on this work, please respond to this post stating:
-how many words you could translate in 1.5 days (the project timeline)
-your availability over the next few weeks (the project will start on Wednesday 9th September)
-your contact details
So the idea is that you would be paid £250 to translate this text for us each week, but we need to know how much you could translate in 1.5 days. The more, the better!
I just can't see any mention of how long the text(s) gonna be. Are they expecting me to do 10000 words for £250 or just 100 for the same price?
Is it just me missing something here?
[Edited at 2009-09-05 18:24 GMT]
| | | | Marijke Singer
Spania
Local time: 08:37
Utilizator
din olandeză în engleză
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| Truly bizarre | Sep 5, 2009 |
I would answer 1 word a week and see what happens.
| | | | Rad Graban (X)
Regatul Unit
Local time: 07:37
din engleză în slovacă
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INIŢIATORUL SUBIECTULUI | And the number of quotes without any questioning... | Sep 5, 2009 |
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By language pair:
- English to Hungarian: 33
- English to German: 42
- English to French: 57
- English to Finnish: 17
- English to Romanian: 59
- English to Czech: 18
- English to Slovak: 13
- English to Estonian: 8
[Edited at 2009-09-05 18:31 GMT]
| | | | Elisabete Cunha
Portugalia
Local time: 07:37
Membru (2006)
din engleză în portugheză
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| I also had the same thought | Sep 5, 2009 |
I believe it's a steady rate and no matter the amount, you'll receive the same.
Of course everyone would be thrilled to translate 100 words for 250 £, but the other possibility does not seem so interesting...
Rad Graban wrote: Job description:
We are looking to appoint translators to work on an ongoing project with us. Each week for four weeks, we will have text in English from a series of anti-smoking campaigns. The content will be very straightforward and non-technical.
We will need this text translated urgently, and have a budget of £250 per week (i.e. £1,000 in total for each translator). If you are interested in taking on this work, please respond to this post stating:
-how many words you could translate in 1.5 days (the project timeline)
-your availability over the next few weeks (the project will start on Wednesday 9th September)
-your contact details
So the idea is that you would be paid £250 to translate this text for us each week, but we need to know how much you could translate in 1.5 days. The more, the better! I just can't see any mention of how long the text(s) gonna be. Are they expecting me to do 10000 words for £250 or just 100 for the same price? Am I missing something here?
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Rad Graban (X)
Regatul Unit
Local time: 07:37
din engleză în slovacă
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INIŢIATORUL SUBIECTULUI | The rate is not bad if.... | Sep 5, 2009 |
Elisabete Cunha wrote:
I believe it's a steady rate and no matter the amount, you'll receive the same.
It's the price for 3000 words I can do comfortably in 1.5 days.
| | | | jyuan_us
Statele Unite
Local time: 02:37
Membru (2005)
din engleză în chineză
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| The more, the better | Sep 5, 2009 |
probably they were expecting you to translate 10000 words at least in each 1.5 day period. Period.
| | | | | The more, the better | Sep 6, 2009 |
They are simply going to select the person who "can" do the more in 1.5 days, to reduce the number of "weeks" as much as possible.
I have not even answered to them.
| | | | | The more, the better | Sep 6, 2009 |
I did not answer because of the oddity of such an arrangement, but in my language pair a lot of translators decided otherwise:
Quotes received:
Total: 595
By language pair:
- English to Portuguese: 76
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Stuart Dowell
Polonia
Local time: 08:37
Membru (2007)
din poloneză în engleză
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My advice, if you are interested in the job, is to ask the outsourcer to clarify the length of the source text(s).
| | | | Gina W
Statele Unite
Local time: 02:37
Membru (2003)
din franceză în engleză
| This could be an oversight | Sep 6, 2009 |
In fact, I would not assume that they intentionally left off this bit of information. It was probably a mistake, so then applicants unfortunately need to ask this. That being said, yes of course it is essential information which should not be left out/overlooked.
| | | | | Not that unusual | Sep 6, 2009 |
I saw this job offer and I did send a bid. With ONG's, specially with large and medium sized-ONG, the different departments receive a certain amount of money per week/month for each campaign. So I just assumed that they have allocated 250 GBP per week for this campaign; logically, they will get translated whatever 250 GBP can buy them. I don't know if that's the case here, but it might.
| | | | Kristina Radziulyte
Lituania
Local time: 09:37
Membru (2006)
din engleză în lituaniană
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jyuan_us wrote:
probably they were expecting you to translate 10000 words at least in each 1.5 day period. Period.
Not that many. Actually I was contacted by the Agency today and they are expecting you to translate 3500 words in 1 day (not 1.5). Sounds like an urgent job to me.
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Vito Smolej
Germania
Local time: 08:37
Membru (2004)
din engleză în slovenă
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SITE LOCALIZER | I have 20£ and need a cab... | Sep 8, 2009 |
Rad Graban wrote:
We will need this text translated urgently, and have a budget of £250 per week (i.e. £1,000 in total for each translator). If you are interested in taking on this work, please respond to this post ...
rotfl
Were you driving a cab, would you take on this passenger?
Vito
[Edited at 2009-09-08 20:40 GMT]
| | | | Rad Graban (X)
Regatul Unit
Local time: 07:37
din engleză în slovacă
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INIŢIATORUL SUBIECTULUI
VitoSmolej wrote:
Were you driving a cab, would you take on this passenger?
I like that. :~))) Would be funny to send the job back once you reach £250 at your rate, probably somewhere half-way, in the middle of a sentence. :~)))
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