I have been watching this thread on citehr for the past 4 months. Dozens of postings asking for freelance soft skills trainers by various individuals and companies have come up. The soft skills trainer community promptly responded with enthusiasm. However, not even one response, not even a courtesy reach, was received. I really do not know if anybody benefited from this at all.
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Yes, I agree with Mr. KS Rao. This is also my experience. I have responded to countless inquiries for freelance soft skill trainers. However, there has been no response, not even an acknowledgment of the receipt of the proposal or the profile!
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The Oldest Trick in the Book
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the oldest trick in the book. More than half of the posts are designed for training aggregators and training companies to collect trainer details en masse. Just take a look at over 75% of such posts. They are badly written as if the person was in a hurry to get to the loo or else...
My suggestion to the many trainers who I've met (that's right - physically met in the real world) through this truly wonderful forum is always to check the email extension. If a 'TRAINING COMPANY' is posting with a Gmail address, usually it means one of three things:
1. It is NOT a training company that has bothered to invest in its basic brand, i.e., a domain name with accompanying email addresses (Rs 5000 per year at most).
2. It's an employee of a legitimate training company who is aware of the company's client's training requirements. And, like a true and loyal employee, he/she goes about creating a Gmail identity in an effort to grab that training for him/herself to make a quick lousy buck. Usually, they'll have a couple of their mates in on it to front the client, etc.
3. It's a person from a rival training company (company B) who's got wind of company A's impending project and intends to gather a whole lot of trainer info and approach company A's client, purporting it to be a 'cold call' from company B.
Very rarely, is it a legitimate post by someone who truly is a good salesperson and genuinely has a project on hand. And, in most circumstances, they will almost always give some hint as to the assignment's nature, the client's industry type, etc.
And, in any case, if a training post can't even have their own domain name (a fundamental and minimal expense), what sort of clients must they be able to procure for their trainers? I shudder to think!
But, like always, the forces of the market and the forces of nature are brilliant at finding their equilibrium - it's just that some trainers learn the hard way - unfortunately!
I know my post reads very cynically. But, being from the industry, I couldn't watch the pain of the trainers who posted earlier and just ignore it. Somewhere I felt that I owed them an explanation.
Take care and have fun!
From India, Gurgaon
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is the oldest trick in the book. More than half of the posts are designed for training aggregators and training companies to collect trainer details en masse. Just take a look at over 75% of such posts. They are badly written as if the person was in a hurry to get to the loo or else...
My suggestion to the many trainers who I've met (that's right - physically met in the real world) through this truly wonderful forum is always to check the email extension. If a 'TRAINING COMPANY' is posting with a Gmail address, usually it means one of three things:
1. It is NOT a training company that has bothered to invest in its basic brand, i.e., a domain name with accompanying email addresses (Rs 5000 per year at most).
2. It's an employee of a legitimate training company who is aware of the company's client's training requirements. And, like a true and loyal employee, he/she goes about creating a Gmail identity in an effort to grab that training for him/herself to make a quick lousy buck. Usually, they'll have a couple of their mates in on it to front the client, etc.
3. It's a person from a rival training company (company B) who's got wind of company A's impending project and intends to gather a whole lot of trainer info and approach company A's client, purporting it to be a 'cold call' from company B.
Very rarely, is it a legitimate post by someone who truly is a good salesperson and genuinely has a project on hand. And, in most circumstances, they will almost always give some hint as to the assignment's nature, the client's industry type, etc.
And, in any case, if a training post can't even have their own domain name (a fundamental and minimal expense), what sort of clients must they be able to procure for their trainers? I shudder to think!
But, like always, the forces of the market and the forces of nature are brilliant at finding their equilibrium - it's just that some trainers learn the hard way - unfortunately!
I know my post reads very cynically. But, being from the industry, I couldn't watch the pain of the trainers who posted earlier and just ignore it. Somewhere I felt that I owed them an explanation.
Take care and have fun!
From India, Gurgaon
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