you simply apply to them (leapforce) and follow all the steps. few days later, if they accept your application, you will get the general guideline about evaluating search engine result both in desktop and mobile. This guideline is very long to read, you might need total 4-5 hours to understand it all. I dont remember how much time I spent on reading that guideline. Later in the exam test (separated to 3 phases), you need to rate each URL's page quality along with if it fully satisfies a user when he type in a query. For example, if someone type "best mattress", they will ask you about specific page and ask you if it meets what the user is looking for? You have to evaluate the web page. You can answer from "fully meet" "highly meet" "moderately meet" and so on. There is also other rating, they call it E-A-T where you need to find the author info or website owner info to know if the site is credible enough, etc. Leapforce explains the differences among them in their guideline. You must read it properly and sometimes you need to read it again when you are in the middle of the exam (they will allow that). the exam is clearly not easy but they are the only one who gave me the opportunity. Lionbridge has declined my application for no reason. Appen staff admitted there's no available job for me currently but he said he will let me know when there's available job. ISoftstone, well, until now they have not replied yet. I will try some trick to apply to ISoftstone through different country. I will update you guys if i succeed
*update: anyway, appen has sent me a link to their pre-screening test. I assume this would be similar to leapforce. Maybe even easier because their guideline is much shorter. Thing is, their pre-screening test has technical issues lol. I can't even start the test, it keeps on connecting, then 30-60 secs later I will be redirected to typical server error message.
*update 2: until now the appen test link for search evaluation is still broken. They have not yet answered my email. However, I can access their other qualification tests like the language test. I passed my own native language test at 78%. it's funny because they consider your answer as "wrong" if you capitalize the first letter in your sentence or use question mark. For example if I wrote "I am the king" they would consider it to be only 75% correct because the correct answer should be "i am the king". If you wrote "what is your favorite color?" they would consider your answer as false because the correct answer would be "what is your favorite color".
you wouldn't know if it's correct or not until you submitted all 20 answers. I should have passed that language test at 95-100% if not because of these silly reasons. I failed English (US) test for this reason but I fixed things up in English UK test (passed it at 92%) Anyway, I will continue my stealth plan for ISS, and see what happen later