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Hiring help with Microsoft Access
I am in need of someone to help re-amp our access database. I created it over the last 10 years... the forms aren't user friendly enough and I need some additions. Any suggestions on where to find someone, how much to pay, etc?
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PatHartman
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Members elect to participate in 'Hire Me' off of their member profiles.
Members search for them off of the main page by Network > Hire An Expert, and modifying the left side Refine Search Results.
Members search for them off of the main page by Network > Hire An Expert, and modifying the left side Refine Search Results.
Pat,
If an expert has selected the Hire Me option in their profile settings, when someone views their profile, they will see a "Hire Me" button immediately below their profile name and above the tab control that contains the "About", "History", "Graph", and "Network" tabs.
If an expert has selected the Hire Me option in their profile settings, when someone views their profile, they will see a "Hire Me" button immediately below their profile name and above the tab control that contains the "About", "History", "Graph", and "Network" tabs.
Jim, Like Pat I wonder what that search page can used for.
When viewing the page you have all sorts of weird (and, I would say, also irrelevant or at least useless) search criteria. Actually, there is no way you can search for "Access" or "VBA".
A highly relevant search criteria would be the usual EE topic areas.
/gustav
When viewing the page you have all sorts of weird (and, I would say, also irrelevant or at least useless) search criteria. Actually, there is no way you can search for "Access" or "VBA".
A highly relevant search criteria would be the usual EE topic areas.
/gustav
I will submit a bug.
The criteria selections are based on the qualifications of the Expert's that have "Hire Me" enabled. Access should be listed obviously as Ray is the top Expert and the first topic area he has listed is MS Access.
Jim.
The criteria selections are based on the qualifications of the Expert's that have "Hire Me" enabled. Access should be listed obviously as Ray is the top Expert and the first topic area he has listed is MS Access.
Jim.
I have the Hire Me checked. I just have no idea how anyone would find me if they didn't know my name since I can't find me or any other Access expert. I don't see any way to search for "Access" experts. It's nice you can search for colleges but what does that have to do with anything?
Exactly.
/gustav
/gustav
Pat, I see what you and Gustav are talking about. I would expect the filters on the Hire Me page to have a topic area as well, and had never paid enough attention to realize it didn't.
You can, of course, view the Access topic area and click on the profile of the experts in the "Top MS Access Experts" section, but that is now so far down on that page a newbie would probably never find it (as opposed to the old days where it showed up near the top, in the right hand margin. Don't know why they changed that!
You can, of course, view the Access topic area and click on the profile of the experts in the "Top MS Access Experts" section, but that is now so far down on that page a newbie would probably never find it (as opposed to the old days where it showed up near the top, in the right hand margin. Don't know why they changed that!
@Pat,
There's some history here, which explains the reason why things are were they are at the moment:
1. We had the Hire me button for a while, with no search feature. This was when EE was strictly a collaboration site. The button was added more along the lines of "You helped me with this problem, but I need more help. Can I hire you?" and avoiding having that question asked and answered.
It wasn't focused on serving up a list of people you could hire, or the listing of a job that you would like to have done.
2. Experts wanted more, so EE contracted with a separate jobs site, at which point the hire me button was taken away. However it was too job focused (as in we have a position to fill), rather than having jobs/tasks needing doing.
This was an external site to EE because they wanted it fast, but the problem was no control over the content and it didn't have the look and feel of EE. Because of all that, they discontinued using it after a short while.
3. The hire me was added back in as a start and those people form a group, so it was tied in with the group feature.
So that link from the menu bar picked up default search functionality for groups, which as you have seen, doesn't work all that well for the "Hire Me" Group. I expect mainly because that group has so many variations, and there are limits on the left had rail search function (i.e. too many topic area's between the 1,400+ hire me experts).
4. With new management at the helm, there are now major efforts underway to branch out into this area more beyond just having "hire me" or the old job site (one of which your aware of).
Also as a back drop to all this, we went from discrete topic areas to tagging, and there's some things that fell through the cracks like this as a result.
But with all that said, even so this needs to either get fixed or removed.
I think for the question at hand though, the fastest method would be to visit the MS Access topic area and just run down the leader board and look for the "hire me" in the profiles. This is the original method for doing this when we had #1 above.
Jim
There's some history here, which explains the reason why things are were they are at the moment:
1. We had the Hire me button for a while, with no search feature. This was when EE was strictly a collaboration site. The button was added more along the lines of "You helped me with this problem, but I need more help. Can I hire you?" and avoiding having that question asked and answered.
It wasn't focused on serving up a list of people you could hire, or the listing of a job that you would like to have done.
2. Experts wanted more, so EE contracted with a separate jobs site, at which point the hire me button was taken away. However it was too job focused (as in we have a position to fill), rather than having jobs/tasks needing doing.
This was an external site to EE because they wanted it fast, but the problem was no control over the content and it didn't have the look and feel of EE. Because of all that, they discontinued using it after a short while.
3. The hire me was added back in as a start and those people form a group, so it was tied in with the group feature.
So that link from the menu bar picked up default search functionality for groups, which as you have seen, doesn't work all that well for the "Hire Me" Group. I expect mainly because that group has so many variations, and there are limits on the left had rail search function (i.e. too many topic area's between the 1,400+ hire me experts).
4. With new management at the helm, there are now major efforts underway to branch out into this area more beyond just having "hire me" or the old job site (one of which your aware of).
Also as a back drop to all this, we went from discrete topic areas to tagging, and there's some things that fell through the cracks like this as a result.
But with all that said, even so this needs to either get fixed or removed.
I think for the question at hand though, the fastest method would be to visit the MS Access topic area and just run down the leader board and look for the "hire me" in the profiles. This is the original method for doing this when we had #1 above.
Jim
I never asked the people who contacted me how they found me but I'm guessing that they did just that.
Thanks for the background
Thanks for the background
I never actually looked at the Hire Me option before. How would cansevin search for someone specifically with Access skills?
Pat