10 must ask interview questions when hiring a Fiverr freelancer

 In business there is a word... this word is powerful and gives the entrepreneur the freedom to do what he or she loves. What is that word? You ask very simply… I am going to blow your mind.

That word is “DELEGATION” yes this simple word has transformed businesses and has freed people to do what they want for centuries. To harness the power of delegation is to understand that we can't do everything ourselves and in the game of business are only won by knowing how to ask for help.

When I started in business one of my negative thoughts was you can't do that I tried to design a website on my own and I had no time for spending hours in front of a computer designing the perfect website.

A good friend of mine, JP, told me something that changed my life. He told me that the delegation of work is something that all business owners at one point need to do at one point or another. 

So he told me about Fiverr now you don't have to go to Fiverr if you don't want to but at the time that was the website that my friend has been using for a very long time and he showed me Fiverr website design and I was able to delegate my website design task to another person somebody more experienced in website design.

Even though starting to delegate was at the touch of my fingers we have to treat this as a normal hiring process because let faces it you are hiring someone to do something that your business needs to grow.

So interviewing a freelancer is very important because you are giving somebody a piece of your business to work on. It is kind of nerve-racking to find somebody that is experienced or hiring an expert in Web Design for instance because your website is the face of your business in reality that is our digital business card.

So getting an expert to do the work and do it right is your objective. I am sharing 10 must-ask interview questions when hiring a Fiverr Freelancer or any other freelancer. 

 

1) How long have you been freelancing?

Knowing the amount of time that your interviewee has been working as a freelancer could determine how qualified this person is for what you are looking for.

Now I don't want you to disqualify new freelancers because they can very well be valuable and can add a fresh perspective to what you are looking for. 

2) Why do you freelance?

Being a freelancer requires them to be a hustler and work on his or their own without direction from you, just the basic instructions.

One thing that Robert Kiyosaki has taught me is that when you want to hire somebody to do the work, you should almost always hire a professional that has an entrepreneur mentality because only a fellow entrepreneur knows what it is like to get your dream off the ground and how important that piece of work is to your business. 

3) What type of projects have you worked on?

Just like in any business you want to see samples of work that the freelancer has done to evaluate his abilities. 

4) What specific results did you achieve for the x campaign?

Now that you have seen their work you want to see what kind of results their work has generated for another business. 

5) How do you typically measure your results?

You want to see how they are keeping track of the results and if they are diligent on can catch mistakes and be able to fix them before they hand in the work.

6) How do you communicate your results?

One thing that I love is communication so your potential freelancer should be able to communicate at least once a week or month with a report of the progress or what needs to be changed. 

7) What would you do if you missed a deadline?

This falls in with communication but very simple. You want to make sure that your freelancer will have the guts to communicate with you if a deadline is going to be missed for any reason. 

8) Has a client ended a relationship abruptly – if so, why?

Before you request references, get a feeling of past relationships that did not work out for that freelancer.

Do not pass judgment if a customer wasn't seeing the outcomes they needed, it could be that the previous client was picky or they just didn't have success with their product like in the case of marketing campaigns.

All things considered, search for how the specialist clarifies the circumstance and on the off chance that they took in any exercises from it. Search for somebody who's constantly ready to learn and continue improving and willing to move forward in your business. 

9) What else are you passionate about outside of work?

Welcoming on specialists isn't care for recruiting full-time workers: you don't have to measure them for a group culture fit. All things considered, it's consistently ideal to become acquainted with who you'll be working with.

10) What tools do you use?

The tools that the freelancer uses can be a great indicator of how efficient the freelancer works. Most freelancers use  Slack, Asana, Trello, Harvest, Google Office Suite; for marketing-related – Buffer, Hootsuite, Google Analytics.

There you have it, those are the 10 must-ask interview questions when hiring a Fiverr Freelancer.

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