Agencies asking to update your availability Vestluse postitaja: Nikolay Novitskiy
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With Christmas holidays approaching, I receive inquires from agencies, asking me to update my availability. They write me smth like "Dear partner, please log in to our vendor management system and update your availibility".
I have dozens of these messages now. I ignore these, considering it a waste of time. I mean, if they have to offer me a task - they should go and do it. I will consider the offer. Why should I pay my limited time to... to gain what?
Do you receive su... See more With Christmas holidays approaching, I receive inquires from agencies, asking me to update my availability. They write me smth like "Dear partner, please log in to our vendor management system and update your availibility".
I have dozens of these messages now. I ignore these, considering it a waste of time. I mean, if they have to offer me a task - they should go and do it. I will consider the offer. Why should I pay my limited time to... to gain what?
Do you receive such inquiries? Ho do you react? ▲ Collapse
| | | | Samuel Murray 
Madalmaad
Local time: 23:13
Liige (2006)
inglise - afrikaani
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| If you have no time... | Dec 6, 2019 |
Nikolay Novitskiy wrote:
I have had dozens of these messages now. I ignore these, considering it a waste of time.
If you have so much to do that you have no time to update your availability, then that's good. I tend to reply to such requests. You never know when their usual translator might be unavailable on a day that you are available.
| | | | | Availability is just one of the criteria used in the vendor/translator selection process by agencies | Dec 6, 2019 |
The agency's translation management system (TMS) checks automatically if you are available at this particular moment. In the absence of clear indication that you are available, the system will ignore you and move to the next vendor on the list.
| | | | Thayenga
Saksamaa
Local time: 23:13
Liige (2009)
inglise - saksa
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You should choose those agencies that send you regular work and are good business partners in every way.
The agencies you're not happy with, just ignore their email.
IMO if they were truly interested in your services, they should address you personally and not send out mass mails. This might imply that they "have" too many translators.
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| Mass communication | Dec 7, 2019 |
The agency means to indicate that it has many contacts to handle in an automated and electronic way. You can ignore this since your update is unlikely to be carefully read by the agency.
| | | | mariealpilles
Prantsusmaa
Local time: 23:13
inglise - prantsuse
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| Updating your availability | Dec 7, 2019 |
I never do because for them, it is just red tape, i.e. ticking boxes. There are some agencies that do that every single Week but never send you any work. So what is the point? If they want to contact you to send you work, it is time enough for them to find out whether you are available or not.
| | | | Kay Denney
Prantsusmaa
Local time: 23:13
prantsuse - inglise
If I'm going to be strictly unavailable at any point, for example if we're visiting my in-laws who live in a country with dodgy Internet connection, significant time difference and astronomically expensive roaming fees, I'll fill that in.
I prefer to remain flexible the rest of the time. I'll probably say I'm not available for a press release about an airline adding two more destinations to their Christmas offer, but if a dream job comes in from one of my favourite clients I'm not ... See more If I'm going to be strictly unavailable at any point, for example if we're visiting my in-laws who live in a country with dodgy Internet connection, significant time difference and astronomically expensive roaming fees, I'll fill that in.
I prefer to remain flexible the rest of the time. I'll probably say I'm not available for a press release about an airline adding two more destinations to their Christmas offer, but if a dream job comes in from one of my favourite clients I'm not turning it down, especially if I can get it done before the rest of the family even get up. ▲ Collapse
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