Month: November 2014

How To Select Perfect Freelancer?

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How To Select Perfect FreelancerFreelancers are people who are different from the full timers. The freelancers can work from a suitable corner of their house whereas the full time employees do an office based job. However the freelancers can be both full time and part timer but they never have to do an in house job.

How the selection of a freelancer done?
Since the freelancers attend home base office environment, the employers need to know how they look like and what their qualification skills are. For this an online interview via video calling or skype interviews takes place.

The process of recruiting a perfect freelance:

Since the freelancers are actually a virtual employee for the employers therefore the employers make sure that they chose only a perfect freelance who can work properly even if not in front of their eyes. However, sometimes a call over the phone is also sufficient for the employers to recruit the employees.

Steps for choosing a perfect freelancer:

It is very important for the employers that they post the total details of the job and the proper application form that can be filled by the interested candidates. Sometimes the employers tend to waste time by talking to candidates who are no match for the job. This problem can be sorted out by following the few underwritten steps.

These steps will help you choose the perfect freelancer that will fit your job criteria:

  • Instead of telling the total project or describing the total project to the freelancer, only describe a little part of it. The candidate will go through the requirements and if he or she excels and or completes the first part of the project successfully then move on with the second part.
  • Decide it in the initial stage whether you will be paying per project or pay per hour. This will eliminate quite a lot of problems that can crop up later on.
  • When all the application forms have come to your desk make sure you filter all the candidate’s responses and choose the filtered ones.
  • There are a number of online websites among which you can choose the one you are comfortable with. These websites provide a number of freelancers who can provide you word according to your needs and requirements.
  • Ask for candidate portfolio and example and then decide who’s work suits and meets all your criteria.

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Why Creative People Sometimes Make No Sense

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I’ve been having an insightful shuffle through Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book Creativity: The Work and Lives of 91 Eminent People. Mihaly is a seminal professor of Psychology and Management, and is the Founding Co-Director of the Quality of Life Research Center at Claremont. He writes:

“I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come up with new ideas and new things. If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it’s complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an individual, each of them is a multitude.”

Nine out of the ten people in me strongly agree with that statement. As someone paid to be creative, I sometimes feel kaleidoscopic in my views or opinions, and that “multitude” of expressions sometimes confuses those around me. Why does that happen? My thoughts make cohesive sense to me, yet others sometimes feel that I am contradicting myself or switching positions. What is wrong with me?

Mihaly describes 9 contradictory traits that are frequently present in creative people:

01

Most creative people have a great deal of physical energy, but are often quiet and at rest. They can work long hours at great concentration.

02

Most creative people tend to be smart and naive at the same time. “It involves fluency, or the ability to generate a great quantity of ideas; flexibility, or the ability to switch from one perspective to another; and originality in picking unusual associations of ideas. These are the dimensions of thinking that most creativity tests measure, and that most creativity workshops try to enhance.”

03

Most creative people combine both playfulness and productivity, which can sometimes mean both responsibility and irresponsibility. “Despite the carefree air that many creative people affect, most of them work late into the night and persist when less driven individuals would not.” Usually this perseverance occurs at the expense of other responsibilities, or other people.

04

Most creative people alternate fluently between imagination and fantasy, and a rooted sense of reality. In both art and science, movement forward involves a leap of imagination, a leap into a world that is different from our present. Interestingly, this visionary imagination works in conjunction with a hyperawareness of reality. Attention to real details allows a creative person to imagine ways to improve them.

05

Most creative people tend to be both introverted and extroverted. Many people tend toward one extreme or the other, but highly creative people are a balance of both simultaneously.

06

Most creative people are genuinely humble and display a strong sense of pride at the same time.

07

Most creative people are both rebellious and conservative. “It is impossible to be creative without having first internalized an area of culture. So it’s difficult to see how a person can be creative without being both traditional and conservative and at the same time rebellious and iconoclastic.”

08

Most creative people are very passionate about their work, but remain extremely objective about it as well. They are able to admit when something they have made is not very good.

09

Most creative people’s openness and sensitivity exposes them to a large amount of suffering and pain, but joy and life in the midst of that suffering. “Perhaps the most important quality, the one that is most consistently present in all creative individuals, is the ability to enjoy the process of creation for its own sake. Without this trait, poets would give up striving for perfection and would write commercial jingles, economists would work for banks where they would earn at least twice as much as they do at universities, and physicists would stop doing basic research and join industrial laboratories where the conditions are better and the expectations more predictable.”

Sometimes what appears to be a contradiction on the surface is actually a harmony in disguise. My problem has been primarily one of communication. I am learning to let people know what I am thinking and why, and explaining myself in a way that helps them understand why I am discussing multiple perspectives instead of just cleanly stating my own. At first it might not make sense, but give me/us long enough, and it will.

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