Johannah Barton and Tips on Hiring a Web Developer

I ask for five examples of previous work right, in WordPress, five examples of previous work in Shopify, and I will go to each of those links. Right now, let's say I have an applicant that uses the same. That uses the same jobs in each section. They're only showing me five jobs. I have a tick box that says, how many years have you been working? Less than two years. Two to four years. Four to six. Six plus. I'm not going to get something. I'm not going to take anyone that's two years below. I'm going to. I'm looking for the four to six kind of person, but I put in the two years because it's a good way to eliminate people. So then I'll have a look. If they don't have enough work examples, I might go back to them and say, if the examples look good. So if I click on the link and I go to the website and it's still there, I'm not going to judge them if it's not a great design because they may not have done the design. It's not their fault that the business owner has no design skills. It's more about the functionality. So I'm going to look at the site and I'm going to go, is it fast loading? I'll get one of my other developers to check the code just in Web Inspector, just to see if they can see if there's anything in there that's a problem. It's not a lot you can see from the front end, but you can see enough. Mainly the speed and how the pages kind of. Are there any 404 pages? It's really the smoothness of the site. Like, if you're wanting to hire yourself a web developer and you're not an agency, like, it's easier for an agency because, you know. But if you're a single person and you want to hire a web developer to support you, then you're probably not as cluey. It's just an intuitive thing. I can go to a site and go, you know what, that's actually okay. I think they've imported it, they've used a theme and it's actually looking all right. It's probably those that are. If you want to hire a web developer and you've never built a website, it's going to be definitely going to be harder for you. If you're going to hire someone to do that work for you, you've got to have enough jobs done otherwise they've not come across enough issues to solve. So that would be your first tip is make sure they've got enough jobs and if there's aren't enough showing on the application, email them and say, I want to see more work, please. Where are you working? How many jobs have you got? Hours. How many hours are you wanting? Why are you looking for work and what is your ideal scenario? Because if they're looking for something, I want to tell them what I want. Because they'll just go, yes, yes, yes. I want to know from them what they're looking for, you know what I mean? And then also, how much are they getting paid and how much would they like to get paid? Because we do a scale on the application and I'd like them to. I don't want to feel like. I don't want them to feel like they're being taken for a ride or duped or. Do you know what I mean? So if they say, I think I'm worth 14 and I look at their work and I go, you know what? I reckon you are worth 14, that's great. But if they go, I'm after 18, I'll go, that's actually too much for our agency and I don't think you can add enough value. You can't be good enough to do that, unfortunately. So I would go, that's probably too much. And then we stopped.