CEO Jason Chakota says that the idea for Rev was inspired by his time at oDesk. Mr. Chakota started the site with co-founder and former oDesk colleague Josh Brianlinger in 2010 they were joined by other MIT classmates who built this platform which now specializes in transcription, captions, foreign subtitles, and document translation. Rev started temi as well. What does Rev look for in a freelancer?

Rev looks  for a linguistic expert with an specialization in foreign languages and translation.

Explanation:

Rev's firm works in  transcription, captions, foreign subtitles, and document translation.

This industry is dominated by and dictated by the work of freelancers who are hired on gig to gig basis and work to translate the projects that the company gives them to along with the work of transcription and subtitling.

In this working environment Rev would be looking for two different qualities

-one would be the ability as a linguist

-other the ability as a translator and someone who has a mastery of a language.

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