how to hire remote workers successfully
and my business have had a mix of hiring
people remotely and people who also work
in out of my office and I recently had
to go through the process again of
hiring somebody new remotely as we’re
growing and I wanted to share my
experience with you because a lot of
people get this wrong a lot of
entrepreneurs make mistakes here and end
up losing tons of time in the process so
here’s the first thing I do it’s it’s
really important I’ll write out
everything that I want the person
understand okay I want them to know what
my company stands for what we’re all
what we’re all about right helping
entrepreneurs believing in entrepreneurs
I will write what their job entails all
the different tasks that they have to do
and it’ll be one big fat messy ugly
paragraph to heaven you’re so mean why
would you do that why don’t you make it
easy for them to get the information I
don’t want it to be easy you know part
of the job requirement is being able to
work through hard stuff right I try to
make it as easy as possible once I’ve
hired them I don’t want their lives to
be hard but but I need them to be
detail-oriented and see who’s a worker
who’s not right it’s an attitude
somebody will see that huge paragraphs I
don’t want to read that great I don’t
want you as part of my company I want
somebody who’s going to take the time to
read it if you start seeing stuff about
believing entrepreneurs and that doesn’t
inspire to keep going if you’re not
hungry enough to work for me then I
don’t want you as part of my team it’s
perfect they’ve self eliminated
themselves the next thing I’ll do is
right in the middle of that ugly nasty
long terrible paragraph I’ll ask two
questions one will be how many Twitter
followers do I have and I’ll say please
share this as your first sentence in
your response back to me and then I’ll
ask them what do you like about
entrepreneurs because if you don’t like
entrepreneurs you’re not going to have a
great time working for me so the first
one tests did they actually read that
long paragraph and the second one will
test why do they want this job because
you’re not just looking for a bum in a
chair you’re looking for someone who’s
going to give you the heart and soul
because they love what you’re all about
so I posted the job I got hundreds of
requests
eighty percent of them eighty percent of
them didn’t even mention the twitter
thing that i posted that means they just
saw the ad saw was a marketing position
and they sent in their cover letter in
their resume eighty percent i would have
burned my time reading all of their
profiles and resumes or cover letters
wasting my time when they spent five
seconds looking at the job at that’s
what’s going to happen if someone does
not say in their first scent is like I
clearly asked how many Twitter followers
do I have then I don’t read their
profile it saves me a ton of time this
is what you need to do this is why
hiring can be so painful and frustrating
because you bring it on the wrong people
and spending time with the wrong people
okay so eighty percent gone I just cut
my work down by a lot next the next ten
percent wrote something like I don’t
know how many Twitter followers you have
because you didn’t give me your account
how hard is it to find Evan Carmichael
on Twitter that was it was a small
simple stupid easy test so all you
showed me I was that you read the read
the whole paragraph but you have zero
resourcefulness to go out and find how
many Twitter followers I have you type
Evan Carmichael Twitter you’ll find me
it’s not that hard so those ten percent
are gone too I don’t want them in my biz
if I have to explain every single thing
step by step and you have zero
resourcefulness then you’re not gonna be
a good fit at my company and they
shouldn’t be a good fit at your company
either you should care about this stuff
this is important the last ten percent
of the ones who actually said how many
Twitter followers i had that’s like
baseline right i’ve already eliminated
ninety percent of people who were just
wasting my time we didn’t even care
about this those last ten percent then I
look at what their response was not just
the Twitter followers but how did they
answer the second question why are they
like entrepreneurs do they do they have
it in their blood was a part of their
family what is it and you can tell some
people speak with passion they speak
from the heart I don’t care for this job
if they’re perfect english or not i’m
not asking to be a writer but i want to
feel something from from their response
and that’s just saying i love
entrepreneurs and i hope to be one
someday
that’s not what I want so you get down
to like the last two or three percent of
people and then I’ll hire them on a
small job a trial job this is something
that they would do for me and I give
them a limit so I’ll say you have ten
hours to do this job and I’ll give them
like four tasks to do and some people
will take the full ten hours to do it
and some people will will not get it
done within the 10 hours and some people
do anything I don’t just claim to 10
hours and so you’re losing a little bit
of money on these people but what you
want to see is how long does it take
somebody to do the task I give them
something that is hard and I see can
they get this done within that 10 hour
limit are they being honest with me if
they finish early are they billing me
for 10 hours they’re going to bill me
for the 8.5 that they work that’s who I
want I want the hustler the one who said
I got all this stuff done and I did it
under time what’s up that’s who I want
to hire so you can do a lot of the work
of screaming people up front you build
the crazy long paragraph you ask them a
question that is relatively easy to find
if they just read what you wrote you
give them something that relates to what
you’re all about something passionate
and see what the response is and the
people who write back and give them some
kind of trial job to test their skills
is Tessa if they’re the right fit for
you or not small amount of money up
front but it’s worth it for getting the
right person anyway that’s my process
it’s worked its work repeatedly i hope
you’ll use it to make better hiring
decisions I don’t want you to be the
entrepreneur who tries to hire somebody
it doesn’t work out you say this is not
for me I can’t hire people i’m just
going to do it myself because that’s not
how you have a real impact in the world
you got to bring people on and it’s
tough and it’s hard you make mistakes
and the first person you hire is
probably going to not going to last with
you right it just happens but I want you
to minimize your mistakes and I want you
to believe that the hiring people can
work and you can you can bring on people
to really help you build something
powerful so that’s how I do it believe
you guys like this video please give it
a thumbs up below I’d love to hear what
you have to think you have a question
about my process you want to learn more
leave it below you have another question
about your business in general leave it
below in the
I’ll make a video response thank you
guys so much and I’ll see you soon
and my business have had a mix of hiring
people remotely and people who also work
in out of my office and I recently had
to go through the process again of
hiring somebody new remotely as we’re
growing and I wanted to share my
experience with you because a lot of
people get this wrong a lot of
entrepreneurs make mistakes here and end
up losing tons of time in the process so
here’s the first thing I do it’s it’s
really important I’ll write out
everything that I want the person
understand okay I want them to know what
my company stands for what we’re all
what we’re all about right helping
entrepreneurs believing in entrepreneurs
I will write what their job entails all
the different tasks that they have to do
and it’ll be one big fat messy ugly
paragraph to heaven you’re so mean why
would you do that why don’t you make it
easy for them to get the information I
don’t want it to be easy you know part
of the job requirement is being able to
work through hard stuff right I try to
make it as easy as possible once I’ve
hired them I don’t want their lives to
be hard but but I need them to be
detail-oriented and see who’s a worker
who’s not right it’s an attitude
somebody will see that huge paragraphs I
don’t want to read that great I don’t
want you as part of my company I want
somebody who’s going to take the time to
read it if you start seeing stuff about
believing entrepreneurs and that doesn’t
inspire to keep going if you’re not
hungry enough to work for me then I
don’t want you as part of my team it’s
perfect they’ve self eliminated
themselves the next thing I’ll do is
right in the middle of that ugly nasty
long terrible paragraph I’ll ask two
questions one will be how many Twitter
followers do I have and I’ll say please
share this as your first sentence in
your response back to me and then I’ll
ask them what do you like about
entrepreneurs because if you don’t like
entrepreneurs you’re not going to have a
great time working for me so the first
one tests did they actually read that
long paragraph and the second one will
test why do they want this job because
you’re not just looking for a bum in a
chair you’re looking for someone who’s
going to give you the heart and soul
because they love what you’re all about
so I posted the job I got hundreds of
requests
eighty percent of them eighty percent of
them didn’t even mention the twitter
thing that i posted that means they just
saw the ad saw was a marketing position
and they sent in their cover letter in
their resume eighty percent i would have
burned my time reading all of their
profiles and resumes or cover letters
wasting my time when they spent five
seconds looking at the job at that’s
what’s going to happen if someone does
not say in their first scent is like I
clearly asked how many Twitter followers
do I have then I don’t read their
profile it saves me a ton of time this
is what you need to do this is why
hiring can be so painful and frustrating
because you bring it on the wrong people
and spending time with the wrong people
okay so eighty percent gone I just cut
my work down by a lot next the next ten
percent wrote something like I don’t
know how many Twitter followers you have
because you didn’t give me your account
how hard is it to find Evan Carmichael
on Twitter that was it was a small
simple stupid easy test so all you
showed me I was that you read the read
the whole paragraph but you have zero
resourcefulness to go out and find how
many Twitter followers I have you type
Evan Carmichael Twitter you’ll find me
it’s not that hard so those ten percent
are gone too I don’t want them in my biz
if I have to explain every single thing
step by step and you have zero
resourcefulness then you’re not gonna be
a good fit at my company and they
shouldn’t be a good fit at your company
either you should care about this stuff
this is important the last ten percent
of the ones who actually said how many
Twitter followers i had that’s like
baseline right i’ve already eliminated
ninety percent of people who were just
wasting my time we didn’t even care
about this those last ten percent then I
look at what their response was not just
the Twitter followers but how did they
answer the second question why are they
like entrepreneurs do they do they have
it in their blood was a part of their
family what is it and you can tell some
people speak with passion they speak
from the heart I don’t care for this job
if they’re perfect english or not i’m
not asking to be a writer but i want to
feel something from from their response
and that’s just saying i love
entrepreneurs and i hope to be one
someday
that’s not what I want so you get down
to like the last two or three percent of
people and then I’ll hire them on a
small job a trial job this is something
that they would do for me and I give
them a limit so I’ll say you have ten
hours to do this job and I’ll give them
like four tasks to do and some people
will take the full ten hours to do it
and some people will will not get it
done within the 10 hours and some people
do anything I don’t just claim to 10
hours and so you’re losing a little bit
of money on these people but what you
want to see is how long does it take
somebody to do the task I give them
something that is hard and I see can
they get this done within that 10 hour
limit are they being honest with me if
they finish early are they billing me
for 10 hours they’re going to bill me
for the 8.5 that they work that’s who I
want I want the hustler the one who said
I got all this stuff done and I did it
under time what’s up that’s who I want
to hire so you can do a lot of the work
of screaming people up front you build
the crazy long paragraph you ask them a
question that is relatively easy to find
if they just read what you wrote you
give them something that relates to what
you’re all about something passionate
and see what the response is and the
people who write back and give them some
kind of trial job to test their skills
is Tessa if they’re the right fit for
you or not small amount of money up
front but it’s worth it for getting the
right person anyway that’s my process
it’s worked its work repeatedly i hope
you’ll use it to make better hiring
decisions I don’t want you to be the
entrepreneur who tries to hire somebody
it doesn’t work out you say this is not
for me I can’t hire people i’m just
going to do it myself because that’s not
how you have a real impact in the world
you got to bring people on and it’s
tough and it’s hard you make mistakes
and the first person you hire is
probably going to not going to last with
you right it just happens but I want you
to minimize your mistakes and I want you
to believe that the hiring people can
work and you can you can bring on people
to really help you build something
powerful so that’s how I do it believe
you guys like this video please give it
a thumbs up below I’d love to hear what
you have to think you have a question
about my process you want to learn more
leave it below you have another question
about your business in general leave it
below in the
I’ll make a video response thank you
guys so much and I’ll see you soon
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