For a client, hiring a freelancer could be a highly painful task because the sheer volume of freelancers in the market is very high. It is really hard to search through thousands of freelancers and find the perfect freelancer well suited for your job.

Even if you manage to hire a freelancer there are a lot of questions that will arise in terms of professional communication. For example, the primary questions for a client will be “Should I hire a freelancer on a project basis or a contract basis?”, “How to set up a hiring freelancer contract”. In this article, we will discuss hiring freelancers on a contract basis and the basic points to be included in hiring a freelancer contract.

First, hiring freelancers on a contract basis requires extreme caution because, you’re employing a freelancer who is supposed to work with you over some time, mostly more than one project. Therefore assessing the weightage of your projects and the talent of the freelancer should be a very high priority.

Supposing you hire a freelancer on a contract basis and they do not manage to meet up to your expectations then it becomes hard to scrape the work and start all over again and go through the tedious process of hiring another freelancer. There is a lot of time and resources that get wasted in this process. Hence it is always better to plan out the entire requirements and evaluate the freelancers based on your requirements beforehand. Also, make sure you set up a hiring a freelancer contract at the time of hiring.

If you are unsure whether to hire a freelancer on a contract basis or project basis, here are a few scenarios in which you might need to hire a freelancer on a contract basis. If your project size is very big and requires a freelancer to be working for more than a month, then it is better to hire them on a contract basis. If you have multiple similar kinds of projects aligned then it is better to hire a freelancer on a contract basis because it will save your time from searching for a freelancer in a short period.

But always keep in mind if you’re unsure about the freelancer you’re about to hire it is always better to hire them for one project and depending upon their performance you can employ them further on a contract basis.

Now that you have come to a conclusion and decided to hire a freelancer on a contract basis then here are a few important points that you should include in your contract to make sure your work runs smoothly.  Make sure you collect all the personal information like number, email, address, social media profiles, and previous work/project details and ensure the background verification.

Next mention very clearly your requirements such as the number of projects, period, deliverables details, payment details, and your company/organization details. It is always better to add a cautionary description with the following statement “If the freelancer fails to meet the expectations or requirements at any point of time of the company then they might be terminated from doing further projects”.

Also, it is very essential to mention non-disclosure details like what they can and cannot disclose to others. This might include project details, ideas and such. If you keep in mind the above-discussed points then there are more chances that you might employ the perfect freelancer for your projects.