How to Find a Great Developer on Upwork

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How to Find
a Great Developer
on

is mostly associated with offshore-outsourcing and
hiring developers in India, which is a difficult pill for
many people to swallow.

Entrepreneurs claim that most of the developers
they hire are low quality and produce terrible
results. That the developers they hire have
difficulty completing the projects

“I can’t find great
developers on Upwork!”

You can use
to hire developers in the:
 US
 Australia
 Europe
 and ASIA

So how to hire
a great developer?

Hiring a developer on
is going to take some work. But if you follow
these steps, you’ll hire a high quality
freelancer who will deliver a beautiful project
for you.

Before I get into how to hire a
developer on , I first
want to tell you why you should
use the platform

KEY Advantages of Using
Work
to Hire a Developer

Online marketplaces give businesses of all sizes access
to global talent pool. No longer are entrepreneurs
confined to hiring the best talent in their geographical
region. They can hire the best talent they can afford
at a global scale.

Ramesh Johari
Stanford Professor/oDesk Research team

“Traditionally, the biggest friction for businesses in the
labor market is the difficulty of finding an available
worker with the skills needed. Online workplaces are
removing this friction by opening up a flexible, global
talent pool – helping the best-matched businesses and
workers find each other when demand exists.”
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/oDesk/the-rise-of-online-work

Workplace flexibility is when employers grant their
employees ability to spend at least part of their
work week away from the office.

30% of employees with flexible
work arrangements feel very
engaged in their jobs.
According to Hok.com
Source: GSA Building Services, ‘The New Federal Workplace,’ June 2009
http://www.hok.com/thought-leadership/top-10-trends-influencing-workplace-design/

Because workplace flexibility is the primary modality
of Work, it is an appealing place for freelancers
and knowledge workers, like developers to seek
employment.

Upwork Takes a Low Margin
of The Developer’s Wage

deducts a 10% fee from the rate
that the freelancer charges the business

For instance:
If the business pays a freelancer
$100, Upwork will receive $10 and
the freelancer will receive $90.

Now, let us talk about the
2 Disadvantages of Upwork

You won’t find many developers that charge a
minimum of $70 per hour from the United States
or other developed countries that you know
routinely produce high quality software talent

There are a lot of high quality developers
from developing countries such as Russia
and the Ukraine

Developers enjoy the flexibility that comes from
working from home and are resistant to coming to
an office to work 9-5 every day

Now that you know the benefits
to using Upwork to hiring a great
developer…

Identify a Specific
Technology

Once you know what kind of technology
you want to build your software on,
then you can use that information to
locate your developer

You can create a post that says
something
like “Need a front end developer who
specializes in HTML5.”

By describing this type of listing, it’s assumed that
you’ll understand the capabilities of the technology
and you’ll be able to converse with a developer

Finding Developers at
Reasonable Rates

Most entrepreneurs think this way
I’m going to
DOMINATE
the industry!
I’m going to go on
Upwork and find some
developer in India willing
to work for $3
per hour.”

But that’s not going to HAPPEN!

If you want a good quality developer, you’re going
to have to start at $15 per hour.
And most of the really high quality developers
are going to cost you a minimum of $25-$30 an hour

Do you Post a Project
or pay Hourly?

If you post a project, meaning you want to
the developer to give you a cost for the
entire deliverable, then you’re going to pay
the developer a much lower hourly rate

However, if you’re looking to build a very
complicated site or application, posting
your job as a project will be hard to do

When projects take a while, the developer starts
to get annoyed. And at some point the developer
will come to the realization that they aren’t getting
paid fairly for the work they’re producing.

How to Invite Candidates
to a New Job

The very best developers might not bother to look for
your job, let alone apply for it. They probably already
have a lot of work on their plate

Just like when you’re
creating your job posting,
you want to search for very
specific technologies

Let’s say you are looking for a PHP framework for
some front end work. If you search for PHP
developer, then you’re going to get a wide variety
of candidates.

Now that you’ve narrowed down your search
with a specific technology and Upwork’s filters,
you then need to invite a lot of people

If you invite just two or three people, they
might not be available. And not everyone
is interested in your job.

Now that you’ve invited 20 or so
candidates, the question is: “How do you
select the best one?”

Let me introduce you to three strategies
for choosing the best possible candidate

is a site where you can ask your
candidates to take quizzes and answer questions
and build mini projects using knowledge that they
are expected to know

Each candidate will then be scored
and you can hire the candidate with
the highest score
That way, even if you don’t know
a thing about coding, you can still
hire a qualified individual

When you’re hiring a developer, you should look at
their ratings on Upwork. However, you need to go
beyond the ratings.

 Developers with high ratings will most likely have a lot
of clients. So, if you’re looking for someone to hire on a
full time basis, then don’t hire someone based on their
ratings alone.
 Many very good developers don’t spend any time on
Upwork so they may not have any ratings at all.

I know this is going to sound like it will burst
your budget, but in the end, it will save you a lot
of money by ensuring you avoid a bad hire.

So why do we hire multiple people?

Hiring multiple people from work who will work
remotely is completely different to hiring someone in
an office for a long term position

If you only hire one developer, there is a high
probability that you won’t get your job completed

They may be working at another job. They may have
no commitment to you and will leave your company
without a word of notice. They may get sick.

The good news is, you can afford to overcome this
challenge because you’re getting a potentially great
developer at a very affordable price.

If you’re in the United States, there is no way you’re
going to be able to hire a developer in your city for
$15 per hour.

But if you don’t have the budget to hire multiple
people, then this isn’t the right strategy for you.
(You should use HackerRank to find good, reliable
developers.)

If you have the budget, then this is an amazing way to
find someone great

is a global outsourcing marketplace very similar in
function to Upwork, which allows potential employers
to post jobs that freelancers can then bid to complete

You post a job and freelancers make
bids to complete. You can then
compare and select bidders. You pay
once you’re satisfied with the work
How does it work?

is a marketplace where you can find, manage, and pay
your staff from around the world.
(Staff.com is a sister company of Time Doctor)

After you post a job, you will create
a shortlist of candidates from 1,000s
of qualified profiles in our database.
Next you will interview and test the
candidates.
How does it work?

And before hiring your new remote staff member,
you can take them for a trial run with either a
quick test, a longer paid trial of 5 hours or more,
or a probation period before the hire is finalized.

The popular social media platform that is a
great way to network and find developers.

Using to find a great developer is no easy task.
You can’t expect to post a job and wait for some great
developer to come running to do the work for $3 per hour.

However, if you’re willing to put in the time and energy
to find a great developer complete a software project,
be it a website or a web or mobile app, then Upwork is a
great platform to do this.

If you’re tired of reading, here’s a video presentation
by Rob Rawson on how to find a great developer on

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