I am becoming more and more overwhelmed with my projects. Some of this has to do with time involvement, but mostly I struggle with my lack of knowledge and having to always hire out work. So for each different project I am hiring out work to someone. Dealing with 5-10 coders and designers is a big pain. I am looking to hire someone to work with me long term as there are many things I will be doing over the coming months and years. Any ideas on how to find a trustworthy candidate? Nothing I do is ever design intensive, nor is the coding very intensive. Just setting up new site projects and growing eexisting ones. Thanks in advance!
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Here are the sort of things I would personally look for. 1) Where is the person/company based? I'd personally be more inclined to hire someone in the States than off-shore, but that's just a personal bias. 2) Response time. If a person's asking you for a job, you have to figure that they'll be more prompt about getting back to you than (s)he'll be after you hire them. 3) Grammar. This is really just a personal bias of mine. If someone's asking me to give them money for a position which requires technical know-how, or where the public might see something written by him, I want someone who knows how to put a sentence together. 4) Work samples. What has this person done before? What does his code look like? How do his web sites look? 5) When you post a specific request, does he actually answer that? Or did you just get some obviously canned response? At least, those are the questions I'd ask first, in your position.
Speedpro.... I would recommend that you PM Weirfire. Stephen is a very well respected member of this board and has done a lot of projects for other members. He is out of town on his honeymoon right now, but I believe he'll be returning sometime this week or next.
I would suggest you look at the portfolios of each candidate, reduce it down to a couple of finalists then get them to take on a small project each - The runner up will also make a good back up - which is almost always needed.
I agree, although sometimes it can be hard to bid out projects to several people when they know they're competing against others (it can create weirdness). Keep in mind that some people are good a coding and programming, others are good at design. Look at what your primary focus is for each project and let that dictate who you use (you can still narrow your pool down to just a couple).
I'm not too sure of the laws for hiring people other than down here in South Africa, but would it be possible to contract them for a probationary month? For example, we have some very retarded employment laws (especially with firing people, they can be abused by the employees very easily), so to get around them companies use contracts for permanent employees. If the company isn't happy with an employee or the employee wishes to leave, they simply cancel the contract (well, not so simply, but you get the idea). So, each employee gets a probationary contract (normally a month or a single project) to see if they can do the job. If the guy works wonderfully during the test month/project and slacks off after getting 'permanent' status, well then there's the door...
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