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Follow the Directions

August 22, 2009

When you are submitting a resume or application for any job, please, follow the directions! When you are submitting your work product, please, follow the instructions provided to you. When you do not follow instructions, even if your work product is completely awesome, you may not be rehired. In some cases your inability or unwillingness to follow directions will result in your work being declined with no payment. If you do not understand the directions ask for clarification. Most employers respect a person who is not afraid to ask questions. I am writing this because recently I decided to outsource some of my writing requirements. I thought I was clear with the instructions. Submit your finished product in one .txt file with your total word count at the bottom, along with your PayPal email address. I also explained I would run each article through copyscape. Now,  I’m not even complaining here about the rampant plagiarism, or the completely unreadable drivel I received, that’s another blog post.  Right now, I am frustrated that I have had to spend hours trying to wade through my email finding individual articles from each writer, instead of getting them all in one handy dandy file,

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