Level Of Professionalism

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I mostly play around on the Kirupa Forums. I’ve been here for quite a while now, and I’d like to think that there is a pretty decent quality of work coming out of the members here. There are obviously some quality professional designers, but there are also those who are trying to make their way into the industry.

My biggest tip is: be professional.

I’ve worked with two designers from Kirupa Forums and both have been very flakey and ended up not up-holding their end of the agreements. No email to say… “hey I’m really swamped, can we extend a deadline”… or “hey I’m sorry my schedule won’t allow me to finish this as we agreed. Can we work something else out.” Both just stopped answerings contacts… It is quite annoying and I really don’t have time to deal with trying to track people down. I AM a professional and I make my living doing design and creative work. If you are trying to make a name for yourself don’t burn your bridges with those who are actually able to help you.

I won’t name names, because they know who they are. What I hope is that the quality of work coming out of this forum can step up a level and along with it the level of professionalism.

With that being said, I also did a project with CanadianGuy and he is a quality professional who did awesome work for me.

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Pretty boy - I agree with what you are saying. Although I am sure many here have high levels of professionalism, it is not only at kirupa that this might happen. Small story- I was contacted this week by someone asking me to do a site and the budget was huge for me £4000. Unfortunately I could not take on the project because it involved database interaction with the website. I have only just started learning this stuff so I made it clear that I could not help out the client but what I did was look around for reputable companies and put her in touch with those. The reason she came to me was that a local web company near to her had let her down completely - saying they could not complete the project. So it’s not just here where deadlines, projects are not met, it can happen with companies that advertise in yellow pages. Word of mouth is a good indication of whether or not a person or company will complete a project.

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Of course it would be great to have something like a rating system for both the employers and freelancers. Feedbacks should be allow also…

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