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Syed Ali
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August 22, 2019
Your business’ success lies with the fact that you’ve assembled the right team. The team has assembled knowledge, skill, experience, determination and passion that has helped your business to grow from strength to strength. But even the most multiskilled of us have blind spots. Every team needs a helping hand every now and then.
Hiring gig workers and freelancers can give you access to the best talent in the industries you need without the crippling overhead costs. The ability to post freelance jobs online for beginners can give you access to hungry new talent with desirable skills in the fields of telecoms like network deployment, cloud engineering , and programming.
Yet, while freelancers can be a real boon to your enterprise, it behaves you to help them get off to the best possible start.
Hiring and managing remote engineers? When you have needs of skilled professionals with certain areas of expertise, it may not be the most cost-effective idea to hire them outright. Keeping them on your payroll can become a drain on your cash flow. Especially if you only need them for a handful of discrete tasks. The last thing you’d want is to go to the trouble of hiring someone and setting up their employee benefits only to realize that you’re going to have to make them redundant.
What’s more, freelancers not only cost less, but they can potentially work to a higher standard. After all, since freelancers’ lives are fundamentally lacking in job security they tend to want to make a good impression in the hopes that they’ll be invited back for future work.
We no longer live in a 9 to 5 society and freelancers have the flexibility and fluidity to fit your needs, more so than salaried employees. Because they don’t have set working hours, you can hire them as and when they’re most beneficial for you. What’s more, they can be quickly deployed and are always motivated to get the job done quickly and efficiently as well as to a high standard.
But how do you ensure that freelancers get off to the best possible start? Here are some tips to help you to get your freelancers started. But, before that we recommend you to read how to streamline freelance payment with FieldEngineer.com.
Needless to say, getting the best start for your freelancing talent requires finding the best freelancers. And this doesn’t just mean finding the most experienced or qualified. It means finding the freelancers who are best suited for the task at hand. And if they look like a good fit for your business and its culture, so much the better.
We understand that hiring the best gig workers for the job is of paramount importance which is why our platform leverages proprietary AI tools to help you match the right freelance talent to each job.
Of course, you can try and find the right talent on your own, but in a global pool of tens of thousands of gig workers, this can mean a lot of legwork.
Freelancers are at their most productive and effective when they have a clear understanding of the clients’ needs and how they can leverage their experience, knowledge , and talent to service them.
This is why communications with freelancers are all important… And this starts with writing a comprehensive job posting. If it’s engaging and well written it will ensure that a broader pool of talent takes an interest. It should also be concise and to the point with clear objectives and time frames.
Be as specific in your deliverables and deadlines as possible. Freelancers know that over-promising on entry-level freelance jobs can lead to soured relationships so they’ll only respond to a job posting if they feel they that they’ll be able to deliver within your timeframe.
Just because they’re not strictly part of your team doesn’t mean that they can’t feel pride in your achievements and your success. Having found great freelance talent, it’s likely that you want to go the extra mile to retain them. This is why it’s so important to make them feel valued and let them know that you need them again.
If they have had a good time working with you and feel like a good fit for your company they will almost certainly want to extend that relationship.
Field Engineer’s powerful yet accessible platform puts top freelancing talent in touch with desirable entry-level remote jobs globally.
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Field Engineer can help you find the best freelancers and help them to make the perfect start with you!
