How to Hire Content Writers in Under 48 Hours

In today's video, I'm going to be sharing with you exactly how I hired six writers within two days of just posting a job and getting applications through the door.

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0:00 - Introduction to How to Hire Content Writers in Under 48 Hours

0:29 - Have some sort of a system

I run everything in a combination of Trello, Asana as well as Notion. And what I do is I have my content writers working out of one of my boards for my different websites as they get assigned different articles, they move that through the board and then virtual assistant approve that. And then we publish that piece of content.

0:56 - It's important to have these on your job description

With this job description, it's really important for you to outline exactly what sort of work are you looking to get filled.

You want to answer questions like what sort of topics do you want authority on or expertise around from your writers?

How are you planning on paying your writers in terms of the rate percent or per article if you're doing some fixed rate agreement.

Do you want somebody who responds to you for example, within 48 hours?

Or do you want something in which, you know, it's a native English speaker or somebody with really advanced English writing skills.

1:38 - Next steps in the process of hiring

When it comes to me, when I do with all of my applications is I make the candidate first sign in NDA and then get that signed in returned before I then share onboarding instructions.

And then from there what'll happen is they will review that, confirm that they can actually follow those instructions before then moving forward in terms of their test milestone.

Once I have them set up with that test milestone, that is the point in which I am really seeing whether or not this writer is going to work out.

3:00 - The website I used to find content writers

So the site I used in order to find my content writers was onlinejobs.ph.

Onlinejobs.ph is a great job board specifically for Filipino based workers. And the reason why I like to hire out of the Philippines is because in many cases you can find some really great English speakers. They're very kind people and they're hardworking as well.

Typically, when I've used Online Jobs in the past, I've only used a subscription one month at a time. I have never found the case where I really needed to consistently keep that subscription every single month.

5:54 - How to create a job listing

The first thing you're going to do when you have your Online Jobs account is to create post a job. For this, what I'd like to usually do is have some sort of thing that makes it really clear what the position is for.

For example, content writers needed. And then I might list the particular niches that I need content written for. And then for the type of employment. And then input the job description that you would have prepped earlier.

For ID proof score, I like to look for anything above 60.

For email contact person, what I recommend here actually is that you create a new email for this particular job posting, just so that all the applications go to the same email as opposed to spamming your main inbox.

7:33 - How to screen the applicants

To do that, what you're going to do is you're going to go into Google forms or whatever form builder you want to create, and then create a simple application like the one in this video.

8:44 - Other recommendation

If somebody is applying for a particular niche, I will look for some sort of common phrase or topic that I know would've been interesting in that particular niche. And I will insert that in here as my sample prompt for a writing sample.

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