Hiring a video editor or other freelancer? In today's video, I'm going to be digging into the eight steps that I recently took to hire my new video editor.

Learn the exact eight steps that you yourself can take when it comes to hiring an editor or some other freelancer on Upwork.

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0:00 - Introduction to How I Hired My New Video Editor on Upwork

0:14 - Step #1: Make sure you put this all together before hiring

It's really important that whenever you're hiring a freelancer that you can think about ways to test the competency of the person that you're working with.

So in my situation, I had a former video editor that was moving on because of some scheduling conflicts. And so what I asked him to do was to put together a folder of files of all the assets that he had used over the last year and a half.

1:12 - Step #2: Setup a test task

This is where I detailed the instructions of exactly what I wanted in order to assess their competency in video editing. In my case, I gave a few minutes of raw footage of one of my upcoming Facebook Marketplace videos to essentially dig into that content and see how the editor was going to edit that raw footage.

1:56 - Step #3: How to create a job listing

From here, you're going to be able to create a job that's either short term or longer term work, and then detail all the things that you want about your particular project. So at this point in time, you're going to want to cover things like what exactly the job is, how much is your budget, what's your timeline, what's your style, as well as any other helpful information that might be useful for your particular task.

3:47 - Step #4: Make use of your free invites

A lot of people don't take advantage of this on Upwork. And regardless of whether you're on a free plan or a paid plan, you get free invites. So I always recommend that you do a search for yourself when you are on Upwork.

What I always recommend you do is filter down your search. What you can do is you can essentially go through the results and then invite people to your project. And when you invite people to your project, you'll then be able to send that particular RFP directly to their inbox.

5:32 - Step #5: Do this to assess different skill levels

In my situation, I tested five or six different video editors, and then essentially gave them the same test task in order to assess all of their different skill levels.

This was a great way for me to get a gauge of exactly what I could get from my budget while also getting a sense for whether or not I needed to go down on my budget or go up on my budget.

6:09 - Step #6: Use this approach

It's really important that you incorporate this into your test task, because essentially what's going to happen is you're going to be able to get a sense for how the two of you guys communicate with one another.

In the case where you're giving feedback and they're not able to understand that feedback, then you're only going to get even more problems in terms of communication later on in your actual freelancing relationship.

6:46 - Step #7: Go through a round of revisions

So in this situation, I compared all the different final products of a few of the different editors. And I essentially ranked order them by preference as well as got second and third opinions from different friends of mine to see exactly what they thought would be the best video editor for me.

Something that's really important to remember is that there's always a freelancer just for you.

7:28 - Step #8: Hire and begin onboarding

So at this point in time, when I was going through the test task, I actually already started a contract with them because it was scoped out to just a test task.

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