{"id":1878,"date":"2012-12-15T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2012-02-08T14:39:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T20:39:44","slug":"web-programmers-the-hiring-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/web-programmers-the-hiring-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Programmers &#8211; The Hiring Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getpaidforwhoyouare.com\/access\" target=\"_blank\">Get Paid University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once you\u2019ve placed your ad, you\u2019ll start to receive responses. Review the resumes and work samples and make a pile of your top ten. Be sure to check that the estimates are within your budget range; building a simple, three-page website should take no more than 10 hours ($100 to $200 total) for most designers.<\/p>\n<p>Schedule a 15-minute interview to talk with the top five candidates. Talk about his or her work experience, get a feel for who they are, and establish a personal connection. Your job in the interview is to be honest about what you need, find out if the person is qualified, and sense if you trust this person.<\/p>\n<p>One of the questions I like to ask during an interview is, \u201cWhat will your references say when I talk to them and ask what is your biggest strength? And what will they say is your biggest weakness?\u201d Ask them if they are willing to undertake a short, unpaid test so you can see how they work. If they are unwilling, you might negotiate a small fee.<\/p>\n<p>Invite the top five to take a test that would take no more than an hour (you can do it unpaid or for a small fee). I have includ- ed a sample test below that you can tweak. Many won\u2019t want to do it for free, which is understandable, but you may find a gem in the few that do, and you\u2019ll be all set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from Get Paid University. Once you\u2019ve placed your ad, you\u2019ll start to receive responses. Review the resumes and work samples and make a pile of your top ten. Be sure to check that the estimates are within your budget range; building a simple, three-page website should take no more than 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[98],"tags":[149,334],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1879,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions\/1879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}