Thoughts on hiring freelancers
Hiring freelance developers has come into the spot-light for me recently and i’ve been trying to work out how one attracts the best candidates.
I’ve recently been involved with posting a WordPress job on oDesk, and the candidates that applied have been very interesting - their skills tend to reflect a singular methodology or paradigm: the skills they list all reflect the same kinds of idioms.
What would interest me greatly is a developer who lists skills from different paradigms, or at least exposure to different idioms: think of techniques used in Java vs. techniques used in Ruby vs. techniques used in Haskel. They all require different ways of approaching problems and different ways of thinking. I guess it’s through exposure that you learn to gauge effective ways of solving problems.
So, if you know any developers with a strong background in Haskel, Java and Ruby who wants to work on a WordPress project, please ask them to leave a comment on this post :P
