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 huge advantages to you. Some of the most important ones are:
Diverse expertise: Freelancers often work on many projects at the same time. With their diverse expertise 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 Latinamerica you’ll find an amazing availability and variety of the talent and expertise you’re looking for, which 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: Save lots in hiring costs by outsourcing remote freelancers to your business. Outsourcing a remote workforce is a good way of hiring an expert and professional workforce for more than half of its regular price. And even if you’re looking for filling a spot in a small project, you can hire one of our freelancers by hours or by project, instead of hiring a full-time employee.
These are just three benefits, but there are a ton of other benefits of hiring freelancers with us. Read “Why Hire From Freelance Latin America?” and find the reason you need to hire your next favorite employee!
Most business owners try to hire freelancers without not really knowing much about the topic and see it just as cheap labor. These people end up hiring a freelancer without filling them in on what is to be expected, giving them clear goals, or helping them identify success… Heck, most people don’t even 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, in other 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 in order for you to take advantage of all the benefits freelancers can bring to your business, it is extremely important that you know what to do as well as 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 you can 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:
There are a couple of things you should be aware of 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 in order for us to know exactly what you need you need to communicate them correctly.
Here are the 8 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!
By posting a project with us you’ll be able to look, review, and choose between a variety of 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 business owners make is putting a plethora of tasks on the freelancer’s plate as soon as they come in. Surely, there are hundreds of tasks and projects in your company that you could delegate to a freelancer or to a remote team, but that doesn’t mean you should just 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 out your new freelancer’s abilities, and with a single focus in mind, I’m sure the result will be amazing.
Once the first task has been completed successfully, use the knowledge that the experience gave you to continue escalating step by step, but in a progressive way, 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 the help of our freelancers, you can give more impact to your logo’s design, 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 that will help you accomplish your dreams.
3. Be Clear & Thorough!
When you are posting a project is extremely important for it to have a very clear and specific goal so that the freelancer understands exactly 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 for.
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 in less than a week you’ll be meeting your new favorite employee!
4. Let your team know
Don’t forget to inform your existing team of the new teammate that will be coming. Working with a freelancer as an extra hand can be of help, only if everyone involved is aware of it. Maybe the way your team is currently working 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 is important that your team knows that you’ll be integrating a freelance remote worker so that your team can do the corresponding adjustment and integration to your business.
If you have any questions regarding administration or HR, you can reach out to us, 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 do 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 smarter 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. Normally, you should think about 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 is an issue that disappears when hiring your 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… And if you read our previous article about the benefits of hiring a freelancer with us, then you should already know that we pride ourselves on following the win-win mindset, by offering you cost-effective prices that will not only give you a great freelancer to complete your team but also save you money in the process!
7. Seek long-term, not short-term
Small projects are bound to grow throughout time along with your business. When hiring a freelancer is more beneficial for you to hire someone with a long-term vision, if they did amazing work in the small projects, also include them in the big projects that are sure to come.
The best choice will always be to build a trusted remote employee team with the ability to adapt and grow along with you. So, when you are selecting the freelancer you want to work with, take into account the rest of their abilities, even if you don’t need them now.
Today’s intern can become tomorrow’s executive. Hire, train, and build trust with your employees and freelancers by following that mindset.
8. Be open to changes
Freelancers’ broad expertise can often offer a variety of 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 the knowledge of your new teammate.
A good suggestion can often accelerate processes, create new strategies, and find different goals to keep improving 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 checked up on the do’s, let’s look in more detail at 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 starts to become a frequent collaborator in your team.
1. Don’t miss out on a win-win deal
When hiring freelancers, most employers are concerned about the new freelancer’s engagement levels, they think about how they can ensure that the new hire has the right motivation to fulfill their responsibilities.
This is where the win-win deal comes into play. A win-win deal 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 that they don’t want to miss, so they’ll be more than eager of working with you.
Here in Freelance Latinamerica we always strive to achieve a win-win deal agreement between our clients and freelancers, because if both parties are happy and winning, then we are also winning.
A happy and motivated freelancer is one that will achieve the best results. That’s why 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 before in this article, outsourcing a remote freelancer with us will indeed help you to save money and lower costs while achieving outstanding results. However, if you are looking for freelancers elsewhere, please be mindful and know that the lowest prices will also come with a decrease in quality.
Remember that the best freelancers know their worth, and if you like what you are paying is a steal, then maybe the result it’s not going to be what you expected. Of course, it’s important to find a freelancer who adapts to your budget, but you also have to consider their experience, expertise, and the benefits they can bring to your business.
Always try to look for a cost-effective relationship, one that helps you save money as well as fulfilling 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 both to us and to 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 notice if they are truly the person you are looking for. Remember that a good freelancer is one that asks the right questions, tells you exactly what they need to fulfill your expectations, and gives you an estimated time of fulfillment of goals.
Of course, that type of communication is something that you will have to do 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 to follow, it’s important that you don’t lose track of the agreed deadlines and the expected results. It’s also crucial that you give feedback at any stage of the project. Remember that your employees won’t know whether they are doing a good job or not if you don’t communicate your feedback to them.
When hiring a freelancer is highly recommendable to divide your goals into small, and specific tasks. That way the process becomes more organized and effective and it helps you to always know what you will receive and when you’ll be receiving it.
5. Don’t add “minor details” that really aren’t
When hiring a freelancer for a specific project, it’s crucial, to be honest, and clear when describing the activities the freelancer will be agreeing 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.
For specific projects, any extra task or revision should be first discussed and reviewed before proceeding. It is very different to ask 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 and to do so for the same price that you agreed on in the beginning.
Any extra work and big changes should be added to the already existing budget, and the bad practice of not doing so will cause motivation and trust to fade away.
In Freelance Latinamerica we are about maintaining and endorsing and 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 ensure the addition of a valuable ally to your team. That’s what we like to call a win-win deal!
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