Jwumasay joo-maJwumasay joo-maFinding work, reserving it, doing it and sending it.
Available work is on your dashboard. What you see depends on the projects you are matched to, the languages on your profile and whether you have passed the assessment for that kind of work. An empty list means nothing is open for your combination right now rather than a decision about you.
It is a short test of the specific work you have been matched to, so the first real task is not the first time anybody sees your work. Your dashboard says which one you need and roughly how long it takes. You cannot reserve tasks on a project until its assessment is passed.
An assessment appears once you have been matched to a project that uses it, so an empty dashboard usually means the matching has not happened yet rather than that something is broken. Verification on its own does not put an assessment there. If your dashboard has shown nothing for a while and your identity is verified, write to support with your contributor id and somebody will look at your account directly.
The assessment tests the actual kind of work the project needs, not a set of facts to memorise. The project's instructions, which are shown when you open the assessment, are what it tests against, so reading them fully before you start is the best preparation. There are no separate study guides. If you do not pass first time, your dashboard will say whether and when you can try again.
There is no fixed time between passing an assessment and tasks appearing on your dashboard. What determines it is whether a project that needs your assessed skill, your languages and your location is currently running. When one is, the tasks show up on your dashboard without any further action from you. Checking back periodically is the only way to know.
Neither exactly. You are not assigned work and you do not apply for individual tasks. Once you have passed the assessment for a kind of work, the tasks available to you appear on your dashboard and you reserve the ones you want. Reserving takes a task out of the pool so nobody else works on it at the same time.
No. Not passing means that kind of work was not a fit on that attempt, not that the account is closed. Whether and when you can try again depends on the project, and your dashboard will say. Other kinds of work may still be open to you.
Reserving takes a task out of the pool so nobody else works on it at the same time. It is yours for a set period shown on the task. If you do not send it in time the reservation expires and the task goes back to the pool, which is not held against you.
The task returns to the pool and somebody else may take it. If it is still there you can reserve it again. Nothing is deducted and nothing is recorded against you for an expired reservation, but work you did on an expired task is not submitted, so send tasks as you finish them rather than saving them up.
There is a limit and it is shown on your dashboard. It exists so that work is not locked away by people who are not actively doing it. Finishing and sending what you hold frees you to take more.
Every project has written instructions and those are what the review is against, so follow them even where you would do it differently. If a task is genuinely broken, for example the file will not open or the question makes no sense, do not guess: use the report option on the task so it goes to the project rather than being marked wrong.
Yes. What a task pays is shown before you reserve it. Rates differ between projects and between kinds of work, because they reflect what the work involves and how long it takes.
Transcription, translation, text annotation, image and video annotation, capture, evaluation, comparing model answers, red teaming, surveys, data entry, reviewing other people's work and in-person field visits. Which of these you see depends on what you were matched to and what is running.
Add it to your profile, with an honest level. Projects are matched partly on the languages listed there, so a language you have not listed cannot match you to anything. Claiming a level you do not have leads to rejected work rather than more of it.
Individual tasks have a reservation window rather than a deadline in the usual sense. Projects themselves run for a period and close, which is why work that was there last week may not be there this week.
It means going somewhere and photographing or recording something to a written specification, or collecting data in person at a named location. It is only offered where a project needs it, the specification is exact, and anything you are asked to record must be recorded lawfully and with the consent of anybody in it.
Projects run for a period and then close, and when one closes its tasks stop appearing. Work you already sent is still reviewed and still paid. It is not a comment on your work and it does not remove you from other projects.
No. Your account is yours alone and the work has to be done by the verified person it belongs to. Sharing an account, or doing work on somebody else's, is the one thing that ends both accounts, because the whole value of the work to a client is knowing who did it.
Not unless a project explicitly asks you to. The work exists because a human judgement is wanted, so machine output submitted as your own is worthless to the client and is treated as a serious breach. Ordinary tools such as a spellchecker are fine.
Your notification settings control what reaches you and how, including email and push. Turning on notifications for work means you hear when something opens for you rather than checking the dashboard.
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