6 Questions to Ask a Potential Contingent Worker Hires

From the WorkMarket subsidiary of ADP, here are 6 questions you can ask a potential contingent worker beyond skills-based interview questions.

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Six questions to ask a potential contingent worker for your team. I’m Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter. I’m a coach who helps people professionally in a number of different ways. And here, I spotted an article that ADP put out for their WorkMarket division that involves screening questions for when you’re bringing on a contingent worker, or Freelancer or a contractor. Just a couple of different kinds of questions that will allow you to get a better flavor for them than the kind of questions you might ask employees — you know, “tell
me about yourself.” “Walk me through your background.”

Here’s question number one. What project are you most proud of? And what that does is . . . it’s a softball question that gets them to open up. That’s my opinion. So what you’re getting a sense of from their answer is initiative that they have, conviction that they have, and does the answer show confidence in their ability to provide a professional end result and meet project needs.