How do you get the schedulers to contact you? I had one contact me they had a shop in the area they needed in the next two days. It was my first with the company. There was no pay, just reimbursement for a nice lunch. I took it and did well (per their comments). Their board has a lot available so that is a good thing.

I took another (different company) that was a last minute that someone else cancelled. No bonus, but took it and did it right away for them. It was a grocery shop. I emailed with the scheduler a few times about when he needed it and such, so like I said, I did it right away. It was a one time communication.

How do you establish a relationship with schedulers to help you get first dibs or anything else that helps with knowing about jobs?

Thanks

mark,
First, if you are not signed up with at least 75 of the companies on the list provided below, that may be part of the isse. By taking a coupe of jobs to try out many different MSCs, you will begin to find which job board's are worth watching for the sorts of jobs that you like. That said, some MSC's schedulers never contact individual shoppers, instead relying on broad anouncement emails or their job boards. Coveted jobs evaporate from the MSC job boards in minutes (seconds for some hotel jobs), so you need to have some experience to begin to see when an MSC is going to post new jobs each month/quarter.

When I started, I made it a point to sign up with 5-10 more companies on any weekday when I did not have a shop scheduled. That got me to a point, in about 4 months, when schedulers began to email or call me to offer jobs, and even some bonuses. By that time I was done 2 or more shops for at least 30 companies, so the schedulers were beginning to see a pattern of reliability. That, and high report scores, will bring offers. There are sooooo many unreliable shoppers, especially among newbies, that proving yourself early will bring big rewards in terms of offers.

Also, when you have a chance to, contact a scheduler with GOOD news. They get so much bad news that hearing about something good is a treat that will be remembered. (BTW, this works best with relatively small companies' schedulers, lol.)

Whenever a scheduler contacts me I ask how much it pays (even if I know what it says on the boards and I usually do know). Typically if they call they are willing to pay more and then its time to negotiate. If they call me I pretty much won't take it for what it is on the boards.

Liz

Thanks for the insight. It seems to come down to just proving yourself which makes sense. I have registered with 88 companies and will just keep picking up whatever I can find