5 Tips to Build an Awesome Freelance Team!

GigTricks Team
GigTricks
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4 min readJul 3, 2018

With the ever-growing competition in the corporate world, it’s becoming more and more essential for business owners to hire excellent employees. But if you’re struggling to keep up with the employees and their demands. One of the things you can choose to do is outsource employees. That is, you can hire a team of freelancers for a specific job while the rest of your employees can work on a normal day to day job.

Hiring freelancers can save you time and money but it’s imperative that you hire the right ones. Here are a few tips you should keep in mind before building a remote freelance team for your business.

1. Know What You Want!

One of the first steps should be to ask yourself what do you want your freelancer team to work on. What skills you require in them, things you could work with and things you can’t. Consider the following questions:

  • Do you want your freelancer team to work in a similar time zone as you or they can be in various time zones?
  • Would it be advisable for them to be multilingual?
  • Would it be advisable for them to be native speakers in your language or would a second speaker be adequate?
  • In what manner will you deal with their workload?

Once you have a grip on what kind of people you’re looking for, start building your team. Seek out recommendations or check out some freelance websites where you could find potential freelancers.

2. Measure Your Need for Freelancers

One of the primary issues new entrepreneurs face is contracting an excessive number of workers at a time. You make the position open, numerous individuals approach and you feel like you need them all in your group, NO!; you don’t need that many people. The first and foremost thing you need to do before hiring anybody is to decide what jobs you need to give to a freelancer and what jobs you believe you can do in-house. Make a list and separate the important tasks from the not so important ones and then decide how many people you need to work on that.

3. Conduct Interview — Know Them Better

After you have a list of potential candidates that could make your team, it’s time for a meeting with them. One of the most important parts of hiring an employee is the interview process. The interview procedure will be your strong foundation as your business develops and it’s also the guardian that will avert any undesirable worker. Set up a rigorous screening process so that you’re 100% sure that the freelancers you’re hiring are what you desire. To test their skills, you could also give them a test or examination of what they would need to do. The meeting ought to tell you whether they would fit into the team that you are building and their eagerness to work with other individuals.

4. Division of Labor

Divide the team according to your desires and assign tasks accordingly. Send them jobs according to their area of expertise and when hiring it’s better to hire an expert in a specific niche rather than an individual who can do a lot of tasks without maintaining quality. If your team has to work together make them communicate with each other. Dividing up the responsibilities would give your team a nice feeling of working together.

5. Share Your Vision

In order to extract the best out of your freelancers, share your company’s vision with them, tell them about your goals and aspirations so they’re on the same page as you. If a freelancer is not working like the way you want them to, they can’t produce what you desire. Sharing your vision will not only help the freelancers understand the job more effectively but also give them a sense of belonging to your company.

Creating a business and keeping it running is not an easy task, with hiring freelancers you could manage it just a tad bit better. Keep these tips in mind and best of luck for your future team.

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