Python for Entrepreneurs Transcripts
Chapter: Getting help (contracting, design, and more)
Lecture: Upwork: A cautionary tale on hiring
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A final thought about Upwork before I go, I've had really good success with things like this,
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help me edit my podcast, help me create transcripts for my online courses, I have a really great women named Marija who does that for me,
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who I also found through Upwork and we've been working together for almost two years; this experience has been super.
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I have tried to hire somebody through here for web development and I tried to hire somebody for a software development job,
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and I found those to be much, much more sketchy. I don't know why, maybe it's just because software jobs are in demand
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and everyone is trying to jump on the bandwagon or something, but, I've interviewed people where they claimed to be in different location
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then they actually were, they lied about their history, things like that, so for example there is a guy I think he was from the Philippines
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who said he was in Chicago, or somewhere like that. And, I don't remember how I figured that out,
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I think it was through like real time Google analytics and I said "Where are you right now?", "I am in Chicago",
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OK, go to these various webpages on my website, not because I was trying to test him, but I was a little unsure,
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but really wanted to show him those things there and I happen to have my analytics up
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and I look over and it says on this page, one visitor from the Philippines. It's totally fine with me if someone is from the Philippines, I don't care,
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like I hire people from a bunch of places and I would be more than happy to work with someone from the Philippines,
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but not someone from the Philippines who is lying and saying they are in Chicago.
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Be a little careful if it actually comes to software development, web design,
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those seem to attract folks that are trying to find they way into the industry I guess, I don't know, that's my one word of caution here.