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Successful Interviews Tips

You don’t need to have the skills of a human resources manager to interview and recruit a good professional on Fexjob Here are tips that may be helpful in recruiting the right professional for your job.

Pre-Interview

Study the profile of who you’re about to interview first:

Sure, you’re conducting an interview to learn more about a person and what he/she is capable of delivering. Check to see if the job suits his profile.

Confirm the details of the interview with the person you’re interviewing.

This is especially important if you’re interviewing someone in a different time zone. Some things to confirm e.g. date & time.

Study his/her job history

Job completion rate: check how many jobs he/she has succeeded in completing, it is risky to award a job to a professional who has a number of on-going uncompleted jobs.

Rating: check

Remarks from previous clients: this is a reliable way to determine the quality of the professional you are about to hire.

NOTE: A professional who is knew to FexJob will not have a job history so that leaves you with the below tips to recruiting the right professional.

During the Interview

Prepare a list of questions

Prepare a list of flexible, open-ended questions and possible follow-up questions. It should act as sort of a template for the interview—a guide for the path that you want to take from start to finish.

Understand your job requirements

Take time to understand your job request, research about the best way to realize it, pro and cons. That way, your employee will know that you aren’t naïve about the job. It helps you help your professional produce a good end-product.

Ask questions

Don’t ever ask YES or NO questions: ask questions that make the professional talk, talking showcases what he is made of.
Don’t ask more than one question at a time.
Keep them relevant but be creative: phrase the questions in a way that will allow the person being interviewed to expand.

Listen

This may sound obvious, but you’ve got to listen! It’s extremely easy to “drift off” while the other person is talking. Wait for him or her to finish, understand what is said, then move on to your next question. Remember that understanding a question can prompt another question sequel to the answer you listened to

Strive for a High-Quality Production

Do whatever possible (within your budget, of course) to conduct finance a good job delivery. Though they may be discrepancies in job cost proposals on FexJob, don’t let cheap offers be your major factor in choosing a professional; value skill and delivery over cost.

Create milestone after awarding job

After you have selected your favoured professional, create a milestone for him/her to begin work; it gives the professional an impression of a principled client.