Grow your business and take advantage of the competitive market by hiring freelancers for the tasks you need to get done.
Startups, small businesses, and even big ones. Regardless of the state of your business or the goals you’re currently trying to achieve, working with freelancers will bring considerable advantages to you. Some of the most important ones are:
Diverse expertise: Freelancers often work on many projects at the same time. With their varied knowledge and flexibility, they can offer you a different perspective and a more assertive vision of the solutions that your company needs.
Quick-Hiring: In Freelance Latin America, you’ll find a fantastic availability and variety of the talent and expertise you’re looking for. This will allow you to create teams of remote-working freelancers to tackle even more projects and help you expand and grow faster than ever!
Cost-effectiveness: Outsourcing remote freelancers to your business saves lots in hiring costs. Outsourcing a remote workforce is a good way of hiring an expert and professional workforce for more than half its regular price. And even if you’re looking to fill a spot in a small project, you can hire one of our freelancers by hours or by project instead of a full-time employee.
These are just three benefits, but there are many other benefits of hiring freelancers with us. Read “Why Hire From Freelance Latin America?” and find out why you need to hire your next favorite employee!
Most business owners try to hire freelancers without knowing much about the topic and see it as cheap labor. These people hire freelancers without filling them in on what is to be expected, giving them clear goals, or helping them identify success… Most people don’t know where to properly look for a good freelancer.
These communication issues cause bad experiences and make the decision-makers close themselves to the opportunity of continuing to grow by hiring freelancers in the future. What you should know to avoid that situation are the good practices that should be carried out and the frequent errors that should be avoided when hiring freelancers.
That’s why, to take advantage of all the benefits freelancers can bring to your business, you must know what to do and what not to do when hiring freelancers.
In this article, we’ll share with you and review the do’s and don’ts of hiring freelancers so that you can not only hire the best freelancers out there but also make the most out of your experience.
Let’s start by reviewing what you should do when hiring new freelancers:
Do’s Of Hiring Freelancers:
You should be aware of a couple of things when looking for the best freelancers, such as the place, the cost, and the criteria. Remember, the best freelancer is the one that best fits your needs, but for us to know precisely what you need, you need to communicate it correctly.
Here are the eight things you should do when hiring freelancers:
1. Find The Perfect Place
One of the aspects people struggle with the most when trying to hire new freelancers is knowing where to find them. It’s not easy to find remote professionals with good references and the exact abilities that you need. That’s why we offer our help!
Posting a project with us lets you look, review, and choose between various freelancers’ profiles. All of them are experts and highly qualified in the area of your choosing. You’ll be able to review our database of freelancers’ profiles, interview them, and choose the one that fits your needs the most.
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2. Tackle The Most Important Priorities First
One of the biggest mistakes of business owners is putting many tasks on the freelancer’s plate as soon as they come in. Indeed, there are hundreds of tasks and projects in your company that you could delegate to a freelancer or a remote team, but that doesn’t mean you should throw them out all at once. This will cause a loss of focus, control, and priority over the tasks.
Instead, be aware of your priorities, identify them, and select a small project with a moderate reach to test your new freelancer’s abilities with a single focus in mind; I’m sure the result will be excellent.
Once the first task has been completed successfully, use the knowledge that the experience gave you to continue escalating, but progressively, towards more ambitious goals and projects.
Focus on achieving the small goals that will highly impact the bigger goals; the important thing is to take that step, even if it’s just a small one. With our freelancers’ help, you can impact your logo’s design more, add a function to your website, hire a virtual assistant to help you with that extra workload, and much more!
The only thing that you need to do is to post a project and let us know exactly what you need! We’ll find the right people to help you accomplish your dreams.
3. Be Clear & Thorough!
When posting a project, it is essential to have an obvious and specific goal so that the freelancer understands precisely what you need and what their role in your business will be. The more details you include, the better. You can inform us about what it is, what it is for, and how and when you need it.
Remember, no matter if you are looking for a freelancer for a project, hourly or full-time, we’ve got you covered! Just let us know, and you’ll meet your new favorite employee in less than a week!
4. Let Your Team Know
Don’t forget to inform your existing team of the new teammate who will be coming. Working with a freelancer as an extra hand can help, but only if everyone is aware. Maybe how your team works can change a little by giving your new freelancer some of the weight your regular employees hold.
Also, when it comes to payroll and human resources, your team must know that you’ll be integrating a freelance remote worker so that your team can make the corresponding adjustment and integration to your business.
You can contact us if you have any questions regarding administration or HR; we’re here to help you!
Want to know more about creating a successful remote team? You can check out our YouTube video about it!
5. Make Your Goals As Clear As Water
When hiring a freelancer with us is extremely important to let us know exactly what you need and what your goals are, that way we can find the freelancer that best fits your needs, and will help us save time when selecting profiles to send to you.
This is also an important step to take after you hire your freelancer. Once your freelancer is already working with you, you should be able to give them SMART goals for them to achieve. The brighter your goals, the faster the results will appear. So, strive to make your goals as clear as water, and let our freelancers do the rest.
Remember that the only achievable goals are the ones that can be communicated clearly.
6. Think About Your Expenses
A freelancer is an investment, and their work is worth a fair payment. Usually, you should consider remunerating your freelancer accordingly, and if you are not sure about the cost range, you might not know if you are paying them too much or too little.
Fortunately, this issue disappears when you hire a freelancer with us. Since the beginning of our conversation, you will know the hourly rate of our freelancers, so you don’t have to worry about cost ranges or anything related to that…
Read our previous article about the benefits of hiring a freelancer with us. You should already know that we pride ourselves on following the win-win mindset by offering you cost-effective prices that will give you a great freelancer to complete your team and save you money in the process!
7. Seek Long-term, Not Short-term
Small projects are bound to grow along with your business over time. When hiring a freelancer, it is more beneficial for you to hire someone with a long-term vision; if they did fantastic work on the small projects, also include them in the significant projects that are sure to come.
The best choice will always be to build a trusted remote employee team that can adapt and grow along with you. So, when selecting the freelancer you want to work with, consider the rest of their abilities, even if you don’t need them now.
Today’s intern can become tomorrow’s executive. By following that mindset, hire, train, and build trust with your employees and freelancers.
8. Be open to changes
Freelancers’ broad expertise can often offer suggestions to improve your projects or even propose new strategies to keep growing. Instead of instantly rejecting them because you want to keep things flowing as usual, pay attention to the freelancer’s suggestions and take advantage of your new teammate’s knowledge.
A good suggestion can often accelerate processes, create new strategies, and find different goals to improve your business. Once you hire one of our freelancers, be sure to listen to them so that you can seize the moment as much as you can.
Don’ts Of Hiring Freelancers:
Now that we have checked up on the do’s, let’s look into more details about what you shouldn’t do when hiring a freelancer. Being aware of these don’ts will allow you to have a better experience once your freelancer becomes a frequent collaborator in your team.
1. Don’t Miss Out On A Win-win Deal
Most employers are concerned about the engagement levels of new freelancers when hiring freelancers. They think about ensuring the new hire is motivated to fulfill their responsibilities.
This is where the win-win deal comes into play. A win-win agreement ensures that your freelancer will be more than happy to help you reach your goals because, by working with you, they will also be gaining something (money, experience, etc.).
For our freelancers, working with you is an opportunity they don’t want to miss, so they’ll be more than eager to work with you.
Here at Freelance Latin America, we always strive to achieve a win-win deal agreement between our clients and freelancers because if both parties are happy and winning, we are also winning.
A happy and motivated freelancer will achieve the best results. That’s why we always do our best to keep our freelancers happy and cared for.
2. Don’t Look For The Lowest Price But The Highest Quality
As we said in this article, outsourcing a remote freelancer with us will help you save money and lower costs while achieving outstanding results. However, if you are looking for freelancers elsewhere, please be mindful that the lowest prices will also decrease quality.
Remember that the best freelancers know their worth, and if you like what you are paying is a steal, then maybe the result will not be what you expected. Of course, finding a freelancer who adapts to your budget is essential, but you also have to consider their experience, expertise, and the benefits they can bring to your business.
Always look for a cost-effective relationship that helps you save money and fulfill your needs. Maybe what you’re looking for is closer than you think.
3. Don’t Hire Without Communicating Clear Expectations
You will only find the right fit for your business once you communicate properly with us and your interviewees. Both you and your freelancer should communicate every single specification about your business, their work, the task at hand, and the goal to fulfill before starting a relationship.
That way, by noticing how they respond to your doubts and ask you questions, you will see if they are indeed the person you seek. Remember that a good freelancer asks the right questions, tells you exactly what they need to fulfill your expectations, and gives you an estimated time to achieve goals.
Of course, you will have to do that type of communication as well. You can’t have high expectations without offering commitment and dedication.
4. Don’t lose track.
Once you have communicated your goals and established SMART short and long-term goals for your freelancer, you mustn’t lose track of the agreed deadlines and the expected results. You must also give feedback at any stage of the project. Remember that your employees won’t know whether they are doing an excellent job if you don’t communicate your input.
When hiring a freelancer, dividing your goals into small and specific tasks is highly recommended. That way, the process becomes more organized and effective, and it helps you always to know what you will receive and when you’ll be receiving it.
5. Don’t Add “Minor Details” That Aren’t
When hiring a freelancer for a specific project, it’s crucial to be honest and transparent when describing the activities the freelancer will agree to do by accepting the project and staying on that work line without adding any extra tasks as if they were included in the budget.
Any extra task or revision should be discussed and reviewed for specific projects before proceeding. It is very different from asking a freelancer to change a couple of details in a draft, from asking them to add a copy for two new sections that weren’t on your site to doing so for the same price you agreed on initially.
Any extra work and significant changes should be added to the existing budget, and the harmful practice of not doing so will cause motivation and trust to fade away.
In Freelance Latin America, we are about maintaining and endorsing a healthy work culture of remote work, and we want you to start enjoying the numerous benefits of adopting this work model in your business.
Being aware of the dos and don’ts of hiring freelancers will ensure a good experience for both parties and will provide the addition of a valuable ally to your team. That’s what we like to call a win-win deal!
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