How to Hire Good Freelancers on Upwork: Upwork Tips & Tricks

Thinking about hiring freelancers on Upwork? Today I'm going to walk you through nine tips that you can use to hire freelancers on Upwork from writers to video editors to virtual assistants and more.

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0:00 - Introduction to How to Hire Good Freelancers on Upwork

0:14 - Tip #1: Make sure you are clear on this

It's really important that you detail exactly what you want out of your freelancing contract. What sort of work are you going to do? What your budget is? What is your timeline? And what is your ideal candidate look like?

0:55 - Tip #2: Make sure you're making use of this

In my case, when I'm hiring writers, for example, I make sure that there's at least a job success score of 80%, that they are fluent in English as well as I like to include rising talent because those are going to give me some ideal candidates that are still looking to establish their Upwork profiles.

1:39 - Tip #3: How to invite freelancers to apply

Upwork is going to actually give you some free invites regardless of what level plan you're on.

So what you can do is you can log into your Upwork account and then once you find interesting profiles, you can go ahead and invite to job in order to invite them to your proposal.

2:50 - Tip #4: How to setup a test task

It's all about testing competency. So what that means is, for example, if you want to hire a virtual assistant, you should put together a list of three or four of the key tasks that you're often going to have them doing.

This is a great way for it to be a two-way street in which you're going to get a sense for exactly what the skills are of the person that's applying for your job, as well as whether or not you like the work product of that particular person.

4:05 - Tip #5: How to create SOPs

You have to remember that freelancers are contractors, which means that they are not full-time employees, which means that you have even less of their time than a full-time employee, which means that you have to have really clear instructions as to exactly what you want done for whatever it is that you're looking to fill.

5:45 - Tip #6: How to pay freelancers

Depending on where you're at in your business, you're going to have a different budget for different projects. And so it's really important for you to start to get a sense of a general benchmark as to how much it costs for XYZ task versus ABC task.

It's really important that you understand in general what the market rates look like.

7:00 - Tip #7: It's important to have this on your Upwork profile

It's really important that it's a two-way street in which when people are applying for your job, that they know that they're applying for a job that they're going to want to want.

And that means that you're a helpful and communicative client and that's clear in your feedback profile.

8:10 - Tip #8: How to set your expectations

At this point, people should have a clear understanding of exactly what they're applying to in your RFP, but it's also really important that you communicate what else is important to you as a client.

So that means things like how often you'd like them to be in communication with you, as well as when you'd like particular deliverables sent to you by and so on.

8:40 - Tip #9: How to build trust

A lot of times people think of freelancers or contractors as just part-time work, that they can treat really poorly. And I can't stress how bad that is in terms of getting the best freelancers for your budget as well as for your projects.

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