In this episode of Grow and Convert Deep Dives, we share our mistakes that we've made when hiring writers and how we've developed a process to solve it.
We go into detail on our process and share things that we've implemented to help us screen writers, test them and train them. We hope you enjoy.
If you have any questions about anything in the video, please respond in the comments and we'll get back to you.
Here are the sections: 0:00 Intro- How to hire blog writers 2:42 Mistakes we made when hiring blog writers 6:38 First big learning hiring writers 9:14 Problem #1: Mismatches in expectations and communication 10:52 Solution #1: Aligning expectations before writing: The questionnaire 15:51 Summarizing our mistakes we made early on hiring writers 17:16 Our writer hiring process 20:59 The test project 24:51 Summarizing learnings of test project 31:11 A question we added to our writing application 33:11 Two filters to help find writing applicants 34:01 How many writers make it through the funnel? 35:32 What are you looking for in the writing application? 38:20 Devesh Rant: Finding good writers is hard 39:27 Bottlenecks that arose in our writing process 40:32 What is the editor looking for in the writing? And coaching… 43:54 Why coaching writers is important 44:49 Don’t build processes too early 46:5…
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