Guides
Guides for hiring a freelancer.
Written for the person doing the hiring: how to read a profile, what to ask before you commit, and what this register can and cannot tell you about anybody on it.
Before you hire
- How to vet a freelancer before you hire: a procedure you can run in an afternoon, and the questions to ask verbatim.
- How to check a freelancer profile is real: the checks that catch a fabricated profile, and what verification does not prove.
- What a directory cannot verify: what this site can observe, and what it structurally cannot.
Scoping the work
- What a freelancer should cost: why a single rate figure describes nobody, and what actually moves a price.
- How to brief and trial a freelancer: what a brief has to contain, and how to pick and size a paid trial.
Across time zones
- How much overlap you actually need: count the decisions your work needs per day, then buy the hours that fit them.
- Hire a freelancer who works your hours: how to write working hours into an agreement, and what a record here prints about somebody’s desk hours.
Alongside
- The standard: the numbered clauses every record here is read against, published in full and versioned.
- Comparisons: how a register differs from a marketplace, an agency and a free list.
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