How to find a freelancer for a permanent job or the theory of employee responsibility

Everyone, who has ever looked for an employee on the Internet, has definitely faced the challenge of finding a skilled worker, who stands out among the total mass not only for his professional skills but also for humanity. Probably many times you have felt the unbearable pain from the fact that the man who swore in his decency and promised to be with you until the ddos would not separate you two, simply disappeared or even worse came after 6 weeks with an innocent status in ICQ and welcomed you as nothing happened. For the sake of such situations not happening to you, let’s try to analyze what mistakes people make when searching for freelancers and what we should know in recruiting through the Internet for a permanent job.

Searching for staff members we refer to the sites where free-Lance sites live. There are not a few of them on the internet, but you should just know that Western resources and resources in Russia are somewhat different. It is easier to find an employee in Russia, and he would require lower salary but the level of disorder and irresponsibility of his would be so high that you'll need to search for a new employee over and over again in order to find a more or less responsible one sooner or later. The situation in the western free-Lance sites is slightly different, but on the other side, here we have to be ready for slightly different mentality and prices, which are significantly upwards, as opposed to the Russian specialists. Firstly, average Western free-Lancer perfectly knows that he is capable of doing and which sphere is not his at all. Western-style freelancer prefers not to take up the amount of work that he may not be able to cope with. He does everything well, requires more than clear TK, and usually performs everything well and, most importantly, on time. But he has one unpleasant feature - the cost. You will not be only asked to pay a salary that is several times greater than in Russia, but to pay for such work, for which Russian freelancer would even be ashamed to ask for a “Thank you”. For example, it is quite possible that you may receive a bill for drawing a simple line in Photoshop, or for the registration of a domain, which took the employee only 5 minutes.

However, in the west or in Russia in any case, there should be a system which makes the search for a worker effective. Let's try to outline the basic rules, which the system contains. First and foremost, we must prepare for the fact that the search in any case takes a long time. And even if the one who contacts you at ICQ seems to be a perfect employee, find a will power to talk with other candidates. Pay attention to everything - how the worker greets you, how quickly he responds to your questions in the messenger, whether they are direct answers or constantly dodge, using common phrases. Typically, if the applicant provides long extensive answers, trying to bring arguments, the freelancer is ideological, and he has no difficulty to sacrifice time to talk in order to get a job. After greeting, ask the freelancer to simply talk about themselves and then ask why you should choose him. If all the answers are coherent, comprehensive, without undue verbiage, give the freelancer the task prepared in advance, which is able to verify his skills, a test, for example, and set the time for limit for the task to be completed. Once the applicant has sent you the completed copy, be sure to check whether he did the job in time. Remember, if the applicant was 10 minutes late, it does not only mean he was 10 minutes late this time, it means that your project, which he will one day be dealing with will be delivered late for a few days with an excuse in the style “it was only delayed for a few days”.

If the freelancer successfully passed the test within the deadline, and during the interview showed himself not only as a good specialist, but also as a human do not rush to decide on his employment. To test how the employee will behave in the real business fuss take any business task that is vital when seeking staff, and instruct him to cope with it within one day, when you will be deciding on personnel matters. Thus, you not only will test the ability of the applicant, but perhaps will advance the business processes through tests.

If the job that you have given applicant is completed, check the creativity of the person. Even if you're looking for a worker with a narrow technical specialty, do not forget that he still must show some creative initiatives, because the more heads is always better than your one. In addition, the minimum sprouts of creative talent necessarily signal on managerial abilities of an employee, and this in turn means that you will be protected from such questions as «Should the title be in bold». Look for the worker, who is the most proactive and who dreams to create what you and your customers need through his hard work.

If you are all satisfied and there is a strong desire to work precisely with this man, don’t be lazy, ask him a few contacts of previous employers. Believe me, a few hours of talk with men with whom the freelancer has worked, can save you time of several days or even weeks.

And now, finally, a decision on the selection of staff is made. You made a choice and are ready to offer the freelancer a salary and a place in your company. In this case, one can only congratulate you, but warn not to remove the contacts of other candidates who lost the contest for the position of your team. It is possible that the worker you have chosen can not cope with the challenges, or disappear, just like many freelancers on the Internet do.

Also remember that during the first few weeks you should not devote your new workers in all of your corporate secrets. During the bringing the employee up to date you might find out he is not appropriate, and then you'll be sorry for the information that was given away to the new comer.

However, many years of experience of luminaries of Internet and endless stories of our readers show that the great share of all freelancers on the Internet is absolutely insane, and in fact it is hindering the development of the World Wide Web. There was a situation where the Russian employees’ disorder and irresponsibility lay on the Internet platform that resulted in an abundance of incompetent, unprofessional employees, wandering on the network and disrupting the plans of many entrepreneurs. However, the army of irresponsible freelancers can be won, we need only to approach the search for employees carefully by asking them for a guarantee and then the labor market in the network will enter a new phase of development of the Internet!

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