City Talent is your on-demand staffing platform. You can utilize City Talent to the advantage of your business by leveraging the immensely talented pool of professionals available in our Talent Marketplace, any time. Here are some guidelines and best practices that will allow you to get the full advantage of City Talent:

Analyzing your resource requirement

Before you begin posting jobs and searching providers on City Talent, it is imperative to establish your resource requirements. Do you need a specialist? Do you need a multi-tasking member? Do you need a good communicator? Do you need a particular language expertise? Defining all these requirements beforehand will allow you to ascertain, the kind of manpower you will need for your project.

Once you are certain about the kind of people you need in your team, you can define and submit these requirements by posting a job in your Talent Marketplace.

Posting a Job

Posting a right job is your first step towards getting the right kind of manpower. Some key ideas on posting a job are summarized as below:

Your Job title should be obvious
Your job title should be extremely simple and seem obvious to the providers. If possible, try to incorporate a specific skill or technology in your job title. This will increase your chances of receiving responses.

Describe the job in detail
The more details you provide in a job, the better understanding a provider has before applying. This reduces your efforts to a great extent since only those providers will apply, who really know the job.

Key features of a good job description
The job description revolves around a key functional area. For example, programming, content writing, designing etc. Job description should provide a clear picture of the project scope; responsibilities to be undertaken and key challenges to be faced. If the job involves high technical competency or previous exposure, it should be mentioned clearly.

Skills should be related
When you post your skill requirements in a job, make sure that the skill are inter-related. A provider in PHP might not be good on ASP.NET. Make sure that your skills requirements are logical.

Availability should be realistic
Expected availability of the provider per week should be entered keeping in mind the project deadline. If your project requires only full time dedication within certain dates, you should choose the maximum hourly availability. In most of the cases, providers tend to be flexible with their availability and adjust their work accordingly.

A view of how your job will appear to the provider 



Reviewing job applications

Once you start receiving job applications, your top priority should be to verify certain fundamental parameters of service profile in each application that you receive. These are:

Availability
Does it match with your expectations?

Hourly Rate
Is the hourly rate within your budget and does it justify the job demands

Language skills
What languages does provider know, apart from English

Technical Skills
What is the experience and expertise of provider for skills that you need? What other skills does the provider offer and will they be useful for your project.

Once you review these basic parameters and find them a good fit to your job requirements, you can further move in detail and perhaps invite the provider for a personal interview.

Interviewing and hiring providers

City Talent’s screening process has already done half the job for you. But as a matter of fact, it is imperative to know that a good provider might be very good for certain kind of jobs and average for other type of jobs. Hence, while you interview a prospective provider, your interaction should be context specific.

While discussing with the candidate, communicate the job demands clearly and ask specific questions on certain issues which are possible to come up during actual development. Ask for relevant experience and question the candidate on any similar project he/she has undertaken.