Hiring Freelancers With Skills

4 plays · Mar 3, 2022

The demand for talent keeps increasing dramatically, however, the vast majority of organizations are still mostly working with, or better say suffer from limiting themselves to only local approaches in the search of talent. Working with skilled freelancers & project workers is not a valid option for them at all. Concerns regarding safety, wrong assumptions on commitment and availability, mixed up with some false beliefs about reliability and stability lead to these huge piles of job openings. Looking at your company hiring demands you might be confronted with a long list of openings, or worst, where you have openings that are lurking around on the job board for months. Let’s be frank. Those openings are not only open on your job site. They are also reflecting the gaps of knowledge present in your organization. If you miss your hiring goals, you don't end up building all the things you need to build, or they move much slower and might lose relevance quickly. So, today we are going to have another look at solutions on how to hire skilled freelancers that you need so urgently.

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💡 QUESTIONS AND VIEWS HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS EPISODE:

Manuel's experience hiring and working with skilled freelancer's
Let's talk about common concerns and misunderstandings hiring skilled freelancers
Safety, reliability, availability, stability, commitment when hiring skilled freelancers
How we do onboarding/ screening/ testing hiring skilled freelancers
Be open-minded when hiring skilled freelancers or you miss out on opportunities

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♨ EXCERPTS YOU MIGHT WANT TO JUMP IN

00:00 Intro

02:51 Experience

07:45 Wrong assumptions

16:10 Looking for rockstars?

22:50 Cost of opportunity

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Flash Hub provides tools, workflows, and skills to hire freelance experts and set up your first team in a matter of days. Develop virtual leadership skills, solve the digital agency hamster-wheel issue, and build freelance teams with ease. We have selected best practices and the most helpful skills you need to work smart, less, and grow a digital business that is easy to sustain you can work on from virtually anywhere.

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Visit FLASH HUB to get free access to the virtual business builder training. Learn how to build, grow, and scale your business with virtual teams and global freelancers in this free training.

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For our international community. This is an English episode and you can find the transcript of this conversation now in more than 25 languages, on our Blog, at HappyScribe Public, or watch the video with subtitles for this episode on our YouTube Channel. You'll find all the links in the show notes below.

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