Send Message should be available for applicants as well

[ogt]

It would be nice to be able to message applicants as well as ongoing contracts:

My current approach is to use the message center for communication with applicants. I typically submit a single welcoming message as well after being hired and a final message on job completion. All the remaining post hire communication is via github comments.

On the other hand any pre-hire communication happens via odesk messages.
Even though the actions are often just reject or hire, there is often message activity as well.

• I typically engage with the people I invite.
• I get referal applications from prior people I have hired they often do not answer the questions..so I need to explain them that they have to answer the questions even if they are referals
• Occassionally I will feel that a person that failed to meet the job requirements does deserve an explanation (instead of a reject)

Anyway, for the reasons above I find a message button next to the applicants/invitees to be useful - similar to the one that we display next to the ongoing contracts

[dglittle]

I agree -- it might also be nice to make it when you click hire open a
dialog for sending a message (with some default text), and a similar thing
for closing a contract..

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:54 PM, ogt notifications@github.com wrote:

It would be nice to be able to message applicants as well as ongoing
contracts:

My current approach is to use the message center for communication with
applicants. I typically submit a single welcoming message as well after
being hired and a final message on job completion. All the remaining post
hire communication is via github comments.

On the other hand any pre-hire communication happens via odesk messages.
Even though the actions are often just reject or hire, there is often
message activity as well.

• I typically engage with the people I invite.
• I get referal applications from prior people I have hired they often
  do not answer the questions..so I need to explain them that they have to
  answer the questions even if they are referals
• Occassionally I will feel that a person that failed to meet the job
  requirements does deserve an explanation (instead of a reject)

Anyway, for the reasons above I find a message button next to the
applicants/invitees to be useful - similar to the one that we display next
to the ongoing contracts

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