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Paid work trials cost money upfront but hiring the wrong person costs more. They work well for hands-on roles like SEO, but won't tell you much about whether someone can actually lead.
Paid work trials cost money upfront but hiring the wrong person costs more. They work well for hands-on roles like SEO, but won't tell you much about whether someone can actually lead.
I like paid work trials. I'm not saying I want people to come into an office over the weekend, but I think it's, even though it's expensive to do a work trial, it's more expensive to hire a bad employee. And so I, this just reminds me that I need to get back to it. Like, are you guys still doing paid work trials? You guys are, right?
Yeah, we've always been doing them. We think it's one of the best ways to figure out if someone's good or not. Paid work trials don't work for all positions though. So if you're hired, let's say in marketing, you're hiring someone to do SEO, a paid work trial isn't too hard to figure out if someone's good or not. If you're looking for a managerial role, let's say a managing director of a certain region or division, you can kind of get a sense if you like the person over a paid work trial over the weekend, but it's still not going to give you enough insights if the person's going to work or not.
