Only seeing job postings for one accent?
It's interesting, but since adding a second accent to my profile, I'm seeing available work for only the second accent! I've fulfilled several and thoroughly enjoyed them, but I'd love to see work in the other accent, too. Are the algorithms weighting incorrectly? My stats are good, and my prices are the same. And random searches show my examples for both accents come up just fine. Is this a statistical anomaly, or is something going on that VB can fix? -- Cat
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Hi Cat,
I've seen that you've been getting projects in the last month for the two different accents and ages in which you perform! :)
For example, in this week's "Weekly Sample" email that shows projects (all in my primary accent and matching one of my age groups) that we might see, there are several that were never available to me and that don't show in the Previous Projects section of my dashboard. Could you check and see why they didn't pop for me? I know possibilities include pricing, and stats, but I believe those are all good. Please let me know if there is something I should do (other than work for free ;)) to increase my project opportunities.
Here are some projects from the email:
project: 99925E567C3423FC9F01
project: 23F7AB38C1AA87E6E90A
project: 3536E9BA2BD9BC88D4F8
project: 1971AB1C466EBB50EF94
The problem continues. i'll create a support ticket.
OK, I got an answer from my ticket, excerpted here (Thanks, VB!!):
I had a meeting with one of our engineers today and he explained the invitation, stat, and ranking system in detail. In your case, I don't think it's rates, but more just competition and lack of matching projects. Really, last month there were only about 24 casting or speedy projects that matched English-North American middle aged female. We are seeing that clients prefer to use Search n Book more and more.
As you know, the VoiceBunny platform is very competitive and while your stats may be good, there are other talents that the algorithms consider to be "better." You are compared to other talents in your language, age, and gender group. You haven't been invited to castings or speedies lately because there are talents in your demographic with better stats (faster response times, lower rejection rates, etc.) and lower rates who were invited first and one of them successfully completed the project.
Something to note - Your speed response stat does not take into account data from bookings. So, the time you take to complete bookings does not affect invites for speedies and castings. You should continue to get bookings with no issues.
Basically, there is nothing you can do on your side to get more invites. It's all dependent upon the performance of other talents in your age/language/gender. The good news is that the vast majority of our projects are bookings. We've seen a dramatic decrease in the amount of speedy and castings as more and more clients prefer to use Search n Book.
We are currently brainstorming ways to help talents improve stats without having to take projects away from talents who have maintained excellent stats throughout their time on the site.