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napo
Romania622 Posts
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Rimstalker
Germany734 Posts
On June 11 2013 11:30 Zethiel wrote: Have you guys considered hiring people through oDesk? I work through oDesk and would be interested on working with you guys in a near future. Let me know if you would be willing to work through oDesk with an hourly contract  we have looked into mechanical Turk in the past, but it didn't really meet our needs. What would be the big advantage for us to use oDesk? The feedback from other guys running projects? On June 11 2013 07:39 Exil wrote: Are You interested in someone from Poland, that will end his Law studies in about 3 weeks? we don't discriminate against Central Europeans, however, as with all non-native speakers applying, we will be looking at your level of English very closely. On June 11 2013 13:32 Starcraft 2 wrote: It looks interesting, but can you expand on what the job actually entails? Especially "run reports, change parameters to make campaigns meet the campaign goals" and "expand targeting to spend the budgets in full". We have a campaign that is advertising for a retirement home in Baxter, Minnesota. The daily budget is 10 dollars. Currently the campaign is set up to target people that have searched on a list of about 2300 related keywords within the last 7 days, and their IP addresses resolve to the following locations: Minnesota > Baxter Minnesota > Brainerd Minnesota > Crosby Minnesota > Merrifield Minnesota > Nisswa Minnesota > Pequot Lakes Minnesota > Pillager Ads are displayed up to 3 times in a 12 hour window to them, and we are blocking around 600 domains where we don't want to serve ads on for this campaign. The client put a click-through-rate goal into our UI of .2, we are currently far from achieving that. We have about 10 different types of reports available through our UI (hourly, adposition, by exchange, domain, keyword, etc.), and about 30 more through our special reporting engine. The 'factors' from the latter can even be combined (query for geo-information, combined with contextual, timestamp, grouped by browsertype), but that is usually not necessary. Based on these reports, you edit the campaign to get the click-through-rate closer to that .2 goal. One example would be to remove the keyword 'obits', since it was spending a good portion of the budget without seeing any clicks, or noticing that no clicks are occurring between 3 and 6 am and not serving ads there during that time period. On June 11 2013 13:22 Pokebunny wrote: Yep I'll be 18 in two months, should I apply now if I'm interested or wait? I asked yesterday, our CEO didn't know, but said he'd find out. If you are that close to 18, I wouldn't keep you out of this round of interviews however. | ||
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Chrono000
Korea (South)358 Posts
I'm curious why are you targeting gamers for the job wouldnt you get overwhelming amounts of people from simply advertising on other job-search site? to me this job would be perfect next year because ill be overseas and need remote work. I'm a graphic designer mostly working in advertising. is it possible for you to predict position availability next year? cheers ahead if u have time to respond. | ||
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EmcDreams
Austria6 Posts
I was thinking about applying, but I am wondering if my english is on a high enough level. What kind of niveau is required to be considered? I have the Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE). Is that enough or are you in need of poeple with better english than that? | ||
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Rimstalker
Germany734 Posts
On June 11 2013 20:44 Chrono000 wrote: Hi Rimstalker, I'm curious why are you targeting gamers for the job wouldnt you get overwhelming amounts of people from simply advertising on other job-search site? to me this job would be perfect next year because ill be overseas and need remote work. I'm a graphic designer mostly working in advertising. is it possible for you to predict position availability next year? cheers ahead if u have time to respond. I have used the TL workforce before, and was very happy with the result. We have advertised in other places, but I think a forum thread allows for a lot more interaction, and the reach is totally different than what we would be getting on any of the big job sites. Simplifi is actually quite engaged in getting new staff, we are hosting some developer meetups in the Dallas Ft Worth metroplex (our new office building will have space for 150 or so people for such activities) and are talking to universities in the areas to get some mba-types as interns among other things. about future hiring: Since October, the number of active campaigns in our system has grown by about 120%, if that is any indicator On June 11 2013 20:52 EmcDreams wrote: Hey Rimstalker, I was thinking about applying, but I am wondering if my english is on a high enough level. What kind of niveau is required to be considered? I have the Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE). Is that enough or are you in need of poeple with better english than that? What grade did you get? I'm also considering to hand out the tasks before I do Skype calls, as the bigger task I usually use is very selective on peoples' English abilities. If I had to put a criterium into words, I'd probably say something along the lines of 'if processing the language slows you down in your work, it's not fluent enough'. | ||
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EmcDreams
Austria6 Posts
On June 11 2013 21:28 Rimstalker wrote: What grade did you get? I'm also considering to hand out the tasks before I do Skype calls, as the bigger task I usually use is very selective on peoples' English abilities. If I had to put a criterium into words, I'd probably say something along the lines of 'if processing the language slows you down in your work, it's not fluent enough'. Well, I actually took the First Certificate in English which is B2 level, but since i was awarded the Grade A on that my Certificate was "upgraded" to C1 level. I think handing out the task before doing anything else might be a good idea, since understanding the task is the basic requirement and if that is not a given anything else is a bit pointless IMO. | ||
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Chrono000
Korea (South)358 Posts
Hope you guys keep growing. | ||
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Rimstalker
Germany734 Posts
On June 11 2013 22:23 EmcDreams wrote: Well, I actually took the First Certificate in English which is B2 level, but since i was awarded the Grade A on that my Certificate was "upgraded" to C1 level. I think handing out the task before doing anything else might be a good idea, since understanding the task is the basic requirement and if that is not a given anything else is a bit pointless IMO. Understanding the task is not the problem, I can phrase it in a couple of words in plain English: "Sort this into words related to some_topic and not related" or "Select/extract the words relevant to topic_x" | ||
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Qyntius
Netherlands1 Post
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sullysc2
United States1 Post
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URHyDrew
United States3 Posts
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Dubzex
United States6994 Posts
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Rimstalker
Germany734 Posts
On June 12 2013 08:27 Qyntius wrote: I'm a dutch student who's studying in American TX at the moment for at least another year. I'm not allowed to work in America because I only have a student visa. Will this be a problem or will I be registrered as if I would be working from the Netherlands, since this is home based anyway? Simplifi will not employ you if it's illegal to do so. However, I would suggest that you check what your visa actually states, and also Dutch regulations, since Freelancing/Contractors have some special rules usually attached. On June 12 2013 11:07 URHyDrew wrote: I had one question. Are you looking for CVs specifically? I have a resume but I dont have any published work or educational experience (past high school). I'm 17 and will be turning 18 in 3 months I have stated this before: I wouldn't even know what the difference is between a CV and a resume. On June 12 2013 12:29 Dubzex wrote: Do I get a job if I beat you in planets? You are in teafoo's game with me? Unless you are teafoo, or maybe the Lizards, I don't see that happen. However, since you asked: If we set up a 1 on 1 game specifically as a match for a job, and you beat me: yes. | ||
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GertHeart
United States631 Posts
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Rimstalker
Germany734 Posts
On June 13 2013 00:03 GertHeart wrote: Since this is a contract job, I'd guess there is no overtime awarded? But would we be allowed to work over 40 hours a week if possible? Even at base pay of $15? We don't impose any maximum hours on our contractors. If you can deliver quality work, 100 hours a week, we will let you work that, with the occasional suggestion to get out to catch some fresh air. The only limitation at the beginning will be that you would probably need someone from our team online to ask questions if any come up, but that is usually the case for about 18 hours per day. We have very straightforward ways of measuring how active you are, our UI also draws some graphs that show the direction a campaign or a group of campaigns is taking, plus we run a bunch of automated reports and get feedback from our sales team and customer service of course. | ||
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Kyuhyuck
Korea (South)40 Posts
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loft
United States344 Posts
Normally a company pays a portion of your tax (social security etc) and u file a 1040. 1099 means that you have to pay all taxes including self-employment tax. If you make your own company, pay yourself, and file as s-corp you can save some money. (this takes time and if done wrong could cost you money/time) In the end expect to make around half of the hourly. (So, $15... $7.50/hr) | ||
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Rimstalker
Germany734 Posts
On June 13 2013 02:51 Kyuhyuck wrote: So you have to be 18 to work no exceptions? Correct. In 'western' counting  .On June 13 2013 03:16 loft wrote: They are going to 1099 you. Meaning you file 1099 form for taxes. Normally a company pays a portion of your tax (social security etc) and u file a 1040. 1099 means that you have to pay all taxes including self-employment tax. If you make your own company, pay yourself, and file as s-corp you can save some money. (this takes time and if done wrong could cost you money/time) In the end expect to make around half of the hourly. (So, $15... $7.50/hr) Yikes. Some quick googling suggests roundabout 40% (of course after deductions) unless you end up in the higher tax brackets for US citizens. German tax law actually exempts me from 'business tax' for the portion of my contracting work that I put in outside of German jurisdiction, I also save a ton on health insurance and pay no social security at all. | ||
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mizU
United States12125 Posts
Should we mention anything if we've had some light experience with CPI ads etc? | ||
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Rimstalker
Germany734 Posts
On June 13 2013 22:46 mizU wrote: Quite cool! Should we mention anything if we've had some light experience with CPI ads etc? Sure, can't hurt. | ||
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