When selecting a freelancer or freelancer team for a job, you can use the freelancer database's Search function to quickly find freelancers with appropriate skills and/or prices.
Freelance search in Projetex can be done either by services included in freelancer price lists or by jobs types completed by freelancers. This includes languages, since services can employ language pairs. Since prices are tied to services, searching by price employs both search by language pairs and by rates.
The following search options are available:
The Basic search, which can be conducted on the Main tab of the Freelancer window. Click the Search button over the list of the freelancers. This search is intended for quick browsing through long lists of freelancers.
The Freelance team search — when creating a group of freelancers for a specific project. To search freelancers for a freelance team, open the Project window, select the required project and click the Freelance Team tab. Click the Search button to begin searching for freelancers to include in this team.
The main difference between the basic search and freelance team search functions is that experts found via freelance team search can be added to the freelance team, while basic search simply allows quick browsing of the found freelancer data with an option to jump to any expert's profile.
Controls for the Search Freelance Experts window are identical in both cases.
By — selects the type of search. Selecting Prices will make Projetex search for freelance expert by the prices entered their individual price lists. Selecting Completed Jobs will make Projetex search for freelancers by the freelance jobs they completed. See the Freelancer Window Prices tab and Freelance jobs tab topics for details.
Service — items in this drop-down list represent combinations of service groups and services present in the database.
Selecting the Vacant Only check box (available for freelance team search only) will filter the services in the list leaving only those corresponding to vacant freelance jobs in the currently selected project.
Units — if the search is conducted by completed jobs, this parameter is optional.
Upper price limit — entering the upper price limit will limit the search to those freelancers whose price lists, or prices set in freelance jobs for the selected service are lower or equal than the upper price limit.
Country — this field adds a search criteria by the country in the Postal address of freelancer.
The search result window provides the following information about freelance translators, which matched the search criteria: Freelancer name, prices, general information, quotes and job history.
It is possible to introduce additional search parameters using the Local Custom Filter at the bottom of the Freelance search window.
See also:
Freelance Team Tab of Project Window