If your business requires you to hire great article writers either for a long-term or a short-term period, the first thing that you’d probably do is come up with a comprehensive job description and qualifications and then post them on a job site. You’d also probably approach newspapers and pay for your ad to be posted, but of course, you need to come up with a write-up or an image attractive enough to bring in a large pool of writers to choose from, of course this means you need to shell out a substantial amount of money and bring up your cost per hire.

Let’s say, you hire a team of writers for your company; then you will have to manage them closely, keeping in mind the things that employees need to be motivated like incentives, bonuses, benefits, or anything else required by your country’s labor laws. Why do all of these things when there’s an easier way? Why go through all the trouble of headhunting, recruiting, and retaining people when there’s a swarm of experienced article writers you can tap online?

An online platform called oDesk came up with a system to hire and manage people remotely—all you need is a computer and this computer will serve as your primary workspace. Thousands of article writers have signed up and built their portfolio in the hopes of landing a stable or even a contractual writing job. Why does this work for them? They don’t have to leave home to work and they can manage their workload easily.

Signing up is easy. What you need to do is put up an “online company” and verify your payment method. Now, thousands of companies or employers have done this and so can you. You will need to supply your credit card number and then oDesk will charge you a total of $10 on two separate instances, dividing the amount randomly. For example, you will be charged $5.75 on the first and then $4.25 on the second. Then you have to key in the exact amounts for oDesk to know that your account is legitimate.

Verifying your payment method will attract more people to apply to your job ad. This will tell applicants that they will get paid if they work for you. It’s common sense for them to accept jobs from employers with verified payment methods instead of those who don’t bother doing so. It makes a lot of difference.

Why will this work for you? There are a multitude of article writers to choose from in oDesk. It’s a well-known space for freelance article writers, so if you’re looking for flexible and top-notch wordsmiths to write about a wide array of topics from headphones to dehumidifiers, then chances are their profiles are on oDesk, so you don’t have to look that far. Plus, it’s a hundred percent legitimate and trusted by both employers and employees from all over the world.

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