✈️ How To Navigate the Risks of Hiring Freelancers: Prioritize skills and hands-on experience

Focus on the skills you need for a specific project, rather than role-based potential. For example, you can:

• Prioritize two to three must-have criteria. Look for both hard and soft skills that will make your project a success — and ignore the rest.

• Watch for signs of experience. Look for similar projects in their portfolio, see if they ask particularly insightful questions during interviews, or ask how they’d approach your project.‍

• Start with a small test project. You don’t have to jump directly to business-critical work; engage talent for a similar paid task to see how they communicate and assess the quality of their work.  

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