Hands Global has created a streamlined network to help alleviate the problems experienced when hiring freelancers online.
PRLog - June 9, 2015 - LOS ANGELES -- Many business owners have no idea who they are even hiring when searching for Freelancers on websites like Upworks.com (formerly oDesk.com) and Freelancer.com. Why is this? Simple—the people you are talking to are usually the heads of agencies that control teams of beginner-level freelancers. Yes, the person you’re speaking to on these sites could seem very knowledgeable, and could reassure you repeatedly on the merits of his work and the passion he has for his customers, but in truth he is simply a talking-head who is looking to take your money, and then pass the work off to his inexperienced team. In short, you often don’t get what you’re paying for on most freelancing websites.
The problem lies with the self-reporting system that most, if not all, of these freelancing websites rely on. Sure, some have some online tests (like the English level test on Freelancer.com), but these tests could easily be taken by someone else in the agency, and most of them are not even required to take at all. Reviews are not reliable at all, since most of them just state simple things like “Great!! A+” or even, “Love this guy, always communicates.” Sure, these are flattering compliments. But what do these reviews say about the actual skill set of the freelancer?
That’s where we come in. We’re Hands Global, and we aim to solve this problem through a process of certification that we’ve painstakingly created. We’re currently in the patent-pending stages of this process, but we want to give you a brief overview of how exactly we find and hire Hands Specialists, and then how we proceed to certify them based on our own specifications.
Sometimes, we begin recruiting specialists ourselves, without any client’s project in hand to provide them with. We tell the freelancers that we need a website of sorts, or some sort of online system, or maybe even some SEO work. Of course, we are completely transparent the whole time, and let the freelancer know about the fact that we are judging their work as representatives of Hands Global (as a business owner, you should be doing this too). In fact, one of the co-founders of Hands Global has over 10 years of experience working as a Sysadmin and security specialist, and has loads of programming knowledge that most freelancers don’t.
However, most freelancers apply directly to Hands Global through our website, which allows us to immediately start analyzing their portfolio and profile. Then, after we see for ourselves that the freelancer we are looking at is in fact an individual and does not work for an agency, we continue on to our own testing and interview process.
We once again make it clear that we’re speaking to the freelancer on behalf of Hands Global, and we have him or her make changes to a previous project they’ve worked on to once again confirm that their portfolio is truly reflective of the work they have done. Once we know for certain that the freelancer is not tied down by an agency, we continue to test the freelancer on his or her skill-sets. This allows us to pair the potential Hands specialist with clients based on those skill-sets, something that most freelancing websites get quite wrong.
Once we’ve confirmed that a freelancer is talented and skilled enough to work with us, we grant them a Hands certification. This certification carries with it numerous benefits, but the three most important ones are:
-The Hands specialist gets access to a number of other specialists in a system we call the Hands Network. They can communicate with each other, and use each other for different aspects of their jobs, so everyone can get a piece of the pie.
-The Hands specialist is never short on clients, since Hands Global has a team dedicated to the search for business owners, such as yourself, that need to somehow upgrade their business using solutions and services made available by Hands Global.
-The clients of Hands Global can rest assured that they always get a specialist that fits their budget, business, and technology needs exactly. This, to us at Hands Global, is the vision of our company, and it is the change we believe needs to be in this world.
Of course, getting to Hands specialist status isn’t easy, but nothing truly worthwhile is. We promise to take all of the time it needs to organize our Hands specialists by what they excel at, and we’re confident that this will make a huge difference in the user experience for our clients.
So, in conclusion, if you’re convinced that outsourcing from other freelancing websites is a good idea, you might want to reconsider. Always try to interrogate your freelancer, and confirm that he or she is not working for an agency. Moreover, make sure the skill-sets of the freelancer you are looking for actually correspond to what you need done. And, if you want someone to handle this all for you, the team at Hands Global would be more than happy to help.
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Hands Global Looks to Solve Freelancing Problems
June 09, 2015 at 15:16 PM EDT
