It could also be a technical problem when people didn’t receive answers, because recruiters were not notified by the new inbox of incoming messages (happened to me while gone on holidays), but they solved it like yesterday: [Viki Community Team] August 2020 Updates.
If they’re absent:
After a week, send a request again.
If no answer, send to a moderator of your language or English mods.
If no answer again, send to Viki.
They made it so despite someone being absent, it should still be possible to be recruited or get an answer.
Recruiters said on this forum they prefered a personalized request with meaningful info about fluency in at least 2 languages over the standard message of project finder.
What I usually do:
- reply the same day, the following day or 2-3 days later
- max within a week
- 2 weeks if busy
- there are a few times where I read it on phone, but can’t answer right at the moment, then I forgot to answer when I come back home but the message is opened so I assumed I already answered lool
- 99% of the time, I reply by asking people questions, because there is not enough info provided by the sender and most of the time, the sender has used the Project Finder standard message.
- People don’t always reply, I think some use it thinking it’s to ask for subs for x episode?
From the very first message, if people gave the meaningful info recruiters would want to know before recruiting, then I think the recruitment would be faster, the answer they’d get quicker.
The first impression is really important and if it’s a Project Finder’s impression, recruiters don’t like it, so avoid using Project Finder standard message. It doesn’t make recruiters want to answer as soon as possible.
It could be penalizing compared to others who just sent a message they wrote themselves. As a recruiter, I’d reply first to someone who took the time to write me a message with her words, then the project finder’s messages at the end of the pile.