So you’ve read my last article on the pro’s and con’s of working with Freelancers vs. Full time employees and decided that you want to try working with some freelancers. Great! In this presentation we will explore the steps you can take to make sure that you get the best freelancer for your money. So let’s get started!

1. how to hire the perfect freelancer
in 3 steps
by FitSmallBusiness.com

2. how hiring a freelancer differs
from hiring a full-time employee

3. Instead of posting full job
details, filtering the applicants
and setting up interviews, we
now post a piece of the project
that we want the freelancer to
complete.

4. This way we don’t waste time
on interviews. we give a test
project to multiple freelancers,
then we simply choose the one
that does the best work for the
full project.

5. step 1: Choose the site you
want to work with

6. As we discuss in our full article
a b o u t t h e t o p i c . w e
recommended working with
Elance. You can sign up for a
free account here.

7. step 2: Post job Description
( start with a small piece )

8. You can post a small piece of the
job and then hire the person to do
the full job only after they have
successfully completed the test
job.
The test job should still be be paid.

9. This is how the job posting
should be broken down:
1.Give the post a compelling title.
2.Introduce yourself and the company
3.Give exact specifications of what you
are looking for.
4.Convey that this is only the start, and
what additional work you have for them.

10. 6. Ask them to provide a quote
for this first test job.
7. Offer to answer any questions
if anything is unclear.

11. paying by the hour vs by the project
I personally always pay by the project. It doesn’t matter to me
whether the freelancer Takes 1 or 10 hours to complete it, so long
as is done right. This also saves me from having review time logs
and gives the freelancer flexibility.

12. step 3: Filter
the candidate responses

13. 1. 80% will be canned responses
that haven’t really read your job
posting. Throwthemout.
2.Filter out anyone who does not
havea4starratingandhasn’tdone
atleast6projects.

14. 4.Look at their work example/
portfolio.
5.Select the candidates that
youwanttotryout.

15. Many people do not want to work
with international freelancers.
There is no question that it is
easier to find better freelancers
in United States (and other
developed countries), but the
cost is going to be substantially
higher as well.

16. From my experience a good rule
of thumb to follow is that the
more discretion that you need a
freelancer to take with a project,
the more likely it is that you are
going to have issues with
freelancers in emerging markets.

17. A notable exception to the above
is uassist.me a virtual assistant
firm based in El Salvador that I
use for several ongoing projects
and have had a lot of success
with.

18. the bottom line

19. You can let the freelancing
site you choose to work
with do much of the heavy
lifting for you.
Don’t worry about spending
a bit of money here and
there on test projects for
candidates that don’t pan
out.

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