Virtual Thoughts

Sure, almost everybody who is looking for a job or is looking for an employee knows about Craigslist. So recently a client of mine asks me to post several available jobs for website designer, graphic designer and other stuff, I got to experience first hand at receiving resumes. I was surprised at how casual a lot of job applicants are in applying for a job.

When I apply, usually I create a cover letter or an introduction letter about myself and my experiences, then I include the entire body of the resume in the body of the email as a lot of employers do not like to receive attachments.

But a lot of those application emails I received don’t have any cover letter, some instead of putting in their resumes, puts in a lot of questions ( I haven’t even seen their resume to know they are qualified or not and I am bombarded with questions ), others just listed their website, no introduction or anything, in short just go to their website and figure out what they do and what are their skills. Worst, others just attached their resume and put the body of the email Blank.

If I were an employer looking for employees, I wouldn’t want to bother with those that just sent in their website or just attach their resume, cause they are by far too lax and therefore wouldn’t make a diligent employee specially if we are talking virtual where there is a very minimal supervision involved.

So as an advice to all job applicants specially the virtual ones, If you want to be taken seriously as a job applicant, then please do the proper thing when applying for a job position - write a cover letter or introduction letter and include your resume. You will have a bigger chance of being hired.

To all aspiring writers in the Philippines, the truth of the matter is, those writing jobs posted in Craigslist pays peanuts. I mean, they are paying way lower than what a writer can actually by submitting articles to local magazines. This has been my complain before that is why I don’t accept writing jobs.

To all those looking for writers, be guided that Writing is a special skill and takes a lot of talent, not everybody can write, therefore it doesn’t come cheap either.

I once wrote a paper for a nursing post-grad in California and it got her an A! But did she pay me? Nope, she didn’t, must have thought that it was easy, and to think that I am not a medical graduate and I was only able to finish college and not graduate school.

Check one of the alerts by a fellow writer posted at

http://manila.craigslist.com.ph/wri/657481467.html

Another writing agency posted a job offer that pays P8,000 monthly to homebased writers. It seemed OK when you look at it. But a closer examination reveal that the ad was designed to fool writers again.

It pays P8000 a month. Since there are 30 days in a month, that means
8000 divided by 30 = P266

You will be given P266 a day. Bun without your knowing it, you will be required to complete 3 to 4 articles in a day.

That means you divide P266 into four articles and you get P66.50. In other words, this job poster will trick you into believing that you are getting a good offer when in fact,it’s deception in disguise.

You will be paid P66.50 for each 500-word article. Can you believe that?

Many methods of trickery are being used by these shameless posters just to deceive us writers into accepting such deplorable fee.If you were deceived into applying for these writing agencies,please reconsider. Let’s prove them once and for all that their long years of exploitation agains the writers are over.If they will not give us competitive rates which is around P350 per 500-word article, ignore their posts.

My fellow writers, always be vigilant.

http://manila.craigslist.com.ph/wri/641226259.html

This poster requires 5 posts a day and he promises P6,000 a month.

That means 150 articles a month.

If you compute the pay per article offer, it only amounts to P40 per article.

That’s right.

P40/article.

Can you believe that?

This job poster attempts to take advantage of writers.

Just an alert for all Philippine writers out there.