• Overview: Hiring Content Writers
• Part One: Finding Writers
• Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job Description
• Part Three: Screening Candidates (this section)
• Part Four - Working with Writers
• Part Five - Terminating Writers

Screening writing candidates requires you to make decisions with limited, imperfect information. This section explains what qualities to look for, which red flags to avoid, and how to contain the damage when you accidentally make a poor hire.

• Overview: Hiring Content Writers
• Part One: Finding Writers
• Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job Description (this section)
• Part Three: Screening Candidates
• Part Four - Working with Writers
• Part Five - Terminating Writers

A clear, concise job description shows candidates that you’re an organized professional who puts thought into what they want. It also allows the writers to skip applying if they recognize they’re a poor match for the work you need. Lastly, it aids you in screening out poor candidates. If an applicant asks you questions that you answered clearly in your job description, you know they’re desperately blasting out generic applications to every job they see.

Highlights

• Is It Keto continued its streak of growth, with a 72% jump in revenue to an all-time high of $389 for August.
• Given that Is It Keto is doing better than any of my other projects, I decided to stop ignoring it.
• I finally got a high-ranking domain to link to Is It Keto, but the experience soured me on guest posts.
• Zestful had its best month ever, earning $728 in revenue.

Goal grades

At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals:

I derive immense satisfaction from outsourcing my chores. All of my friends have heard me encourage them to place a higher value on their free time and delegate their errands. Few of them heed my advice, and it’s probably because they know about the time I paid someone $96 to clean a $39 keyboard.

Highlights

• I’m shelving What Got Done, as customers seem uninterested in the idea.
• Zestful has become my greatest challenge in not sweating the small stuff.
• Is It Keto continues growing in the background, with a 22% increase in revenue and a 35% rise in traffic.

Goal grades

Conduct five calls with new customers

• Result: Conducted nine calls and meetings (five for What Got Done, three for Zestful, one for a project idea)
• Grade: A+

I got almost twice as many interviews as I thought I would for and improved my skills at customer conversations.