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Easy Tips On Writing Job Advertisements
Nicolas Darvas Trading
When writing job advertisements as you post a job ad for some out tasking work, you'll get a whole lot of people bidding on the job. Don't select the first person that comes through, especially when you first get started. There are auto systems out there that that will scan and trawl for jobs and then they'll auto post a response saying, yes, we can do this, this and this. It's clearly a canned response. So make sure that you don't select the first person.
There are a couple of other things I do when I'm putting my jobs on vWorker. I always start writing job ads with the same thing. When you open it up I open with the same sentence and that sentence is: 'Here is an easy job for someone who knows what they're doing.' Just think about the context or what you're pre framing the person who's reading that job ad to think. If they say, oh, this is a very hard job, then it's like they're saying they're not very good at it. So it's not an easy job for them because they're not the right person. They're not very good at it.
Typically by putting that sentence in as well, you'll get more competitive rates. It stops people saying when they post a bid, oh, that's a very hard job. I'm going to have to jack the price up. So it really is a good pre frame when writing job advertisements for online applicants.
The other thing I like to put in the ad, think in terms of the person who is bidding on the job. Get in their mind frame. What is it, do you think, that someone who is doing out tasking jobs is looking for? For them, they want some stability. As an out tasker, you've constantly got to win new jobs every week to make sure that you make enough money to pay your rent. What I like to add at the bottom of the job ad is P.S. This is a trial for ongoing work. I have regular work. If you perform, you'll come on as part of my virtual bench and I'll give you consistent work.
So that way, you're appealing to a higher quality individual, you're appealing to someone. What does that do? That might get them to lower their bid because they think, oh, if this is for ongoing work, maybe I want to be a little bit more competitive to make sure I get onside with this good person and then I can get regular work. Often I'll tell them, go look at my feedback for my vWorker and they'll see. In vWorker I pay a lot of people through bonuses because that's what I do for ongoing work. I don't relist the job, I'll talk to them once I've built up a rapport with them, I'll talk to them and then just pay them as a bonus. So I say to them, see, check out all of these bonuses. That's really attractive to someone looking to do out tasking work.
If there might be some sort of intellectual property component of a project that you're a bit scared about listing in detail, I do a couple of things. You might keep it a bit broader. You might say, look, I want two or three people to bid on this broader context of what I want. I'm going to pick the top three. Pick the top three, get them to sign an NDA, a non disclosure agreement and then we'll refine the bids after that. In that process you can interview people. With most of the software, you can have your fifty people who have bid on the job and then interview three people. Before you go down that process, get them to sign some NDAs.
In my experience of writing job advertisements, if you're doing something that is seriously private and seriously needs some high level NDA, non disclosure agreements in place, I wouldn't be going to India or the Philippines for a start. I'd be looking at someone locally. You're going to pay a premium, but you're going to have a lot more control. Hopefully, if it's that valuable to you, you can pay the extra $2000 today if you're going to make it on the back end. If you're doing something in this way, it shouldn't be that private.
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Article submitted Friday, August 12, 2011 & read 16 times.
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