FSBO Guide - Authorify

However, I prefer to design test tasks for which I don’t have to pay. To do that, you have to make sure that whatever you are asking applicants to do will not take more than 30 minutes. If the task won’t take long, many people are willing to complete the work — except those who work so slowly that they think it would take six hours to complete the test task. Those people won’t bother to do the task, and that’s a good thing because you would not want to hire someone so slow anyway. I only do paid test tasks once in a while. ● Word Your Ad Carefully You have to exercise some caution, though, when using paid test tasks. As I mentioned above, when I started using test tasks in job advertisements, I volunteered that I would pay $5 or $10 for the test, depending on how good the posters were. I had to change that policy when I saw the quality of the posters that some applicants submitted. There were posters so poorly done that they weren’t even worth $1. When I saw that trend, I edited the job advertisement to say that I would pay $10 to the applicants who went onto the interview stage . That is my method of qualifying people. A well-structured test task is still your best bet for qualifying people under any circumstances. Let’s discuss a few of the hiring evaluation questions and the motive behind them. ● “Why do you want this job?” This question reveals the applicant’s motivation. I am not interested in anyone who claims to be looking for something short-term or who is just experimenting with online work. I don’t want this because I invest time in building a relationship with my employees and training them. After I have done all of that, I want them to remain with my organization for a long while. ● “Can you give me examples of past work?” I use this question to verify that the person is the expert he or she claims to be. If you are looking for a writer, and the candidate doesn’t have samples to show you, then you might be hiring somebody with no experience. Jobs such as SEO and graphics usually require someone with a bit of experience, and those who have experience will always have plenty of samples to show you. ● “When can you begin working?”