👉🏻 Post your job on Upwork (a platform filled with freelancers)
Be crystal clear about your needs + expectations. List all the tasks and skills, and add a small test like asking them to include a specific word in their application—this helps filter out anyone who didn’t read carefully.
👉🏻 After you post it, an invite to hire page will appear and you want to FILTER THE CRAP out of the talent that you want to see
(There is a filter drop down menu that Upwork provides)
Check the following boxes:
• English: Fluent
• Earned amount: $10k plus
• Job success: 90% & up
👉🏻 Now that you have sifted the best leads to the top, look deeper at reviews & track records such as checking to see if they’ve had long-term projects, and look for repeat clients. For 20+ of the best leads you will “invite them to apply” to your job. A portion will apply and a portion will decline.
👉🏻 With the portion who applied, your next step is to RUN QUALIFIED APPLICANTS THROUGH A TEST
• Run 5 of the potential assistants through a test project
• A test project is an opportunity to see how they perform, communicate, quality of work and so on
• Since you are paying for the test project, let it be finished work that you can use
(hopefully, assuming they did a good job)
• For example: It may be editing reels, putting together a manychat funnel, throwing
together a presentation and so on
• Narrow it down to ONE and move forward with another 30 day trial
👉🏻 During the test, watch for red flags
Look out for things like vague answers, slow responses, or poor communication. If they’re not showing up 100% during the trial, they won’t improve later.