Your Biggest Headaches Hiring Workers ?

My biggest problem with hiring help is when they disappear and don't deliver.

Nice idea with the app though

My biggest headache is their excuses for not delivering in time and incomplete stuff. They use all type of excuses, God knows from where they get such innovative excuses!

Hey George

Quick question: Will you be charging any "membership fee" or "entry fee" for us to have access to the workers?

Just my 2-cents worth to your questions below.

1) I'm not the best person to say this, but I reckon some people might have a problem of engaging some VAs who say they are able to do this and that, only to find out that their CVs are crap and they can't do things as good as they claimed.

Some other problems might be that website owners might be charging "membership fees" (example $40 or more) on a monthly basis for you to have access to the details of the workers. Some people especially starters might not be able to afford or they rather save the money I guess?

2) The best thing of hiring VAs is they save you alot of time to focus on other walks of life. The most common problems the VAs can help will be to set up websites, build links, SEOs, socialbookmarking, etc to help push our sites up the rankings. Also, we might have certain ideas of coming up with softwares but are not able to do due to no programming knowledge. If they have the expertise to do as per our instructions and the charges are not too high, this will be a welcome relief to many people out there.

Cheers,
Lester

My biggest headache, like a few of the answers above, is when people disappear. I usually do the work beforehand getting samples etc to make sure they're good enough. But on many occasions I've had great writers simply stop replying to emails or getting later and later at delivering. Seems that when the initial excitement of the job wears off they get slack or just don't want to do it any more (yet for some reason can't be bothered to email to tell me that).

Mainly I work with writers from the US, UK or Canada. I imagine that it could be to do with the same thing.

Sometimes, they just disappear without any notice. OR that they say they can do it but they only do more harm to the work than good.

Not having a firm grasp of the English language is the first and foremost frustration I come across when looking for workers. I can find some if I search long enough but many will say they do and then when they deliver their goods they aren't written in acceptable english. I can weed these people out much more quickly now beforehand.

The other frustration is workers believing they understand the project, accepting it and then giving up or giving excuses. I explain very thoroughly what is required for all the jobs I need done but some still back out and I wonder what it was they were expecting in the first place.

it would be very difficult to determine exactly their skills just based on their CV since these are EWorkers. As they say, you hire them and then they just disappear. There are some have very captivating cover letters but are actually unprofessionals.

Doing interviews using IM/Skype or any available means of communication would be helpful, also scanned documents that would support their claims will also help.

I hate it when you agree to a price with them, and during the project they suddenly realize their payment should be a lot higher and start pressuring you to increase the number of $. Oh, and also those workers that persuade you that they fully understood the task and they are able to do it, and then you receive a huge surprise in the form of something a lot more different than what you have asked for.