Like the documentary Icarus, where filmmaker Bryan Fogel set out to explore amateur cycling and instead unearthed a Russian doping scandal, my journey into freelance hiring started with a small curiosity and spiraled into a much bigger revelation.
It all started when our team member posted a slightly non-standard job on Upwork – a custom project that should have attracted only a select few skilled freelancers. Instead, he got a number of seemingly good proposals – some very good. Each sounded polished, professional, and ready to tackle the task. But then when he started talking with the applicants, it became rather clear that most actually had no real idea as to what they’d signed up for.
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