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December 14, 2012 By Francis Leave a Comment

Setting up the Communication between My Job Researcher, My Hiring Manager and Me

by Francis
(December 14, 2012)

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Here is what my hiring manager wrote to set up the initial communication.

I made it a habit after hiring someone for my team to quickly establish that I need them to use Google mail and Google Chat, Skype and a Dropbox.

You need to really set up and define your ways of communication on front. If you want daily work updates, set this up early in the communication while your applicant is still fresh and motivated to start working.

Also don’t wait for eternities before you sent him the first assignment. You took so long to setup the cooperation.

Why loose time now.

In this case I left communications up to my virtual assistant who helped me as a hiring manager. He took care of all the rest. I only get involved when important questions about for example oDesk payments come up.

But everything else can be smoothly outsourced to your hiring manager if you have one.

Striking While the Iron is Hot

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Here what oDesk has notified me just after I opened a new contract

I just started the contract with Roman.

The longer you take to decide which provider you want to hire, the more and more applicants you get. After a time, it gets really hard to overview the mass of your applicants.

That’s why I will suggest you to limit the time you take to hire a person to a maximum of three days. That’s about the time it took for my virtual assistant who acted as a hiring manager for me and me to hire Roman.

The next step is to set up weekly limit on the time your assistant can work for you. This serves both as a security for your money as well as for your managing.

If you limit the work of your newly hired assistant to 10 hours a week, he cannot cost you more than the allocated time limit. So there is not cost explosion here.

Also it would be easier to manage someone who is not working potentially full time for you. You can always expand your weekly hour limit later.

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Comments for Setting up the Communication between My Job Researcher, My Hiring Manager and Me

Aug 19, 2014 decent and generous
by: Jomvie

I tried applying for some freelance or project-based job before in one of the most popular freelancing job sites and I’ve never encountered any employer who would hire right away. It’s probably they want to haggle more that it takes up to 20 freelancers lining up for a particular project.And I think this is how it goes with oDesk also? Oh well, you sound pretty decent kind of an employer 😀

Aug 21, 2014 Haggling can be effective – but don’t haggle your time away
by: Francis

It makes sense to choose the best fitting person for your job from a selection of candidates.
It makes no sense to hire just anyone, unless you have fun parting with your hard earned cash easily.
But it makes even less sense to spend way too much time haggling, negotiating and discussing with candidates, from whom you will only truly know their value after you work with them for a while.

Much more effective: decide on a “trial period”, after which you evaluate if you go back to your selection of best candidates.

Think about it like this: time is money (and invaluable). If you negotiate too long, the best candidates might find something else elsewhere.

And the money saved in the short term through your negotiations is lost in time, without a guaranteed return of investment.

Trial and error, and testing different strategies is much more effective in the long run.

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