Brian Alvey

Krop circles

174 days ago

Since we have about four times as many freelance developers as we do designers and we need a whole lot of both, I decided to give Krop a try. A few different people had recommended them and I had seen them on a couple of sites, so I posted our designer job description.

Three of my first four applicants looked decent on paper. Overall the nearly forty results I got were good. I'd say the 37signals applicants were better overall, mainly because 37signals candidates had more pure web experience. Krop applicants usually have print and video backgrounds and ad agency experience.

Now we just need to load them all up with trial design projects. We have plenty to do, so that won't be difficult. It's easier to hand off a self-contained design project than it is to hand off development work.

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w3ace 174 days ago

Interestingly Krop is showing up right after this blog for the search "Crowd Fusion" on Google. Good SEO is good business, it also leads to high volume - less quality (at least for job searching).

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