We Know What It’s Like To Scale a Content Team—Learn From Our Experience!

We started off as ContentDistribution.com—a small content agency with ambitious goals. In 2019, we began working on a project that became one of the most successful SEO campaigns of all time.

The plan was to develop high-quality content that would land our client 1,000,000+ organic visitors a month, and we achieved that by scaling our team to 45+ Editors and Writers in less than 2 years.

Hiring new people wasn’t smooth sailing, especially when we had to go over hundreds of applications every day. We soon realized we lacked a system that would optimize the whole process and decided to invest our time and money into making it.

In the next 10+ minutes, we’ll show you where you can find the best Wikipedia Writers for hire and how to use Workello to avoid the same hiring issues that we had.

Top 15 Websites You Can Use To Hire a Wikipedia Writer

Check out our pick of the best 15 job boards for finding a Wikipedia Writer for hire:

Hiring Wikipedia Writers—The Difficult Part

Every job board is filled with job ads seeking top-performing Wikipedia Writers. High-quality candidates find new jobs in a flash. Platforms can’t keep up with the demand, and the majority of job seekers are underqualified.

In your hunt for top talent, you need to evaluate and test each candidate to find the perfect fit, and you need to do it faster than your competition.

Once applications start rolling in, the process will become overwhelming, and you’ll soon lose track of what’s going on. That’s what happened to us.

Once we expanded from using Upwork only to posting our job ads on other platforms, we realized that no job board helped us get rid of these recurring issues:

• There was no way for us to sort candidates by their status in our hiring funnel
• Websites didn’t have custom settings for Wikipedia Writers
• Portfolios weren’t reliable

Every time we added a job board, our problems only multiplied as we couldn’t:

• Log and respond to all applicants
• Have a database of candidates that piqued our interest
• Follow up with the best candidates on time
• Track them by status in the hiring funnel
• Lower the number of poor applicants

We soon realized the problem wasn’t the job boards—it was our hiring process. We decided to invest time and money into creating an automated hiring funnel that would eradicate all these issues at once.

Pre-Employment Testing Is Difficult—You Can Make It Easy

With every job listing, you get a bundle of applications from unqualified candidates—with writing positions, the number of such candidates grows exponentially.

It’s difficult to understand how good someone is at writing from their portfolio alone—nobody shares their worst examples and unedited work. You need to introduce pre-hire testing to gauge your candidates’ skill set. If they can’t write a stellar test, how can they create high-quality content?

If you go down this route, you’ll need assistance. Keeping track of hundreds of candidates, sending and collecting tests, taking care of correspondence—it quickly turns into a disaster if you do it manually. Reliable skill assessment software will keep you organized and allow you to focus on other tasks. 

Workello is a high-volume recruiting solution that will help you automate assessments and the hiring process in general. Here’s how it works:

1. Sign up for free and set up your hiring funnel in under 3 minutes
2. Post job ads on your favorite job platforms and add a Workello link
3. Review applications from your dashboard
4. Send tests to filter high-quality writers from bad ones quickly
5. Reject, interview, and hire the best applicants

Hire the Top 1% Fast With Workello’s Pre-Hire Assessments

With Workello, you can assess, test, reject, interview, and hire candidates with a single click—all actions are available on your single-page dashboard. Move candidates through the funnel by changing their application status, and Workello will do the rest.

You can use our platform to send out copywriting, content writing, and technical writing tests automatically. If you’re looking for someone in the SEO department, make sure to test your SEO writers and SEO copywriters. Workello also supports content marketer testing.

Use our free trial and cut your hiring costs in half with an automated hiring funnel.

Hiring Funnel of a Top 1% Hiring Agency

To find what was missing in our process, we decided to break it down into tiny pieces. Here’s how we did it:

1. Being able to let our target audience learn about us required a Wikipedia page
2. Having a top-quality page meant hiring a Wikipedia Writer who knew how to write it
3. Hiring a quality Wikipedia Writer meant evaluating hundreds of applicants
4. Finding the perfect fit required getting rid of poor candidates fast
5. Removing bad candidates was what we lacked the solution for

Whenever we posted a job ad, applications would start flying in. The problem was that there would be too many for us to handle them all manually. That’s why we needed a different solution that would get rid of these issues for us. We needed the following:

1. A single platform to store all applications from various job boards
2. An automated system that would let us change candidate status effortlessly
3. A one-page dashboard where we could evaluate, test, interview, and hire Wikipedia Writers
4. An automatically-sent writing test to separate bad candidates from good ones
5. Communication automation that would remove the need to follow up with applicants manually

We first came up with Google Sheets + Google Forms + Zapier, which improved our process but didn’t make it perfect—and we wanted perfect.

Write Your Job Description Copy for Wikipedia Writers

Your job description is the only channel of communication with your candidates before they apply. The best job descriptions make it clear what exactly the role entails and what criteria applicants need to meet.

When writing a job description, be as specific as possible about the role. Describe every responsibility they will have and what requirements you demand in detail. A thorough job description will cause the number of underqualified applicants to plummet.

You should also use your description to sell your company and attract top talent. Mention any benefits you offer, from learning opportunities to salary increases and health plans.

If you’re not sure what your job description should look like, check out our database of job description templates. We have templates for all content team roles, so you can find one even if you’re not looking for a Wikipedia Writer.

All you need to do is click on a role title, change the template slightly to match your needs, and you can post your ad!

• Writer
• Copywriter
• Catalog Writer
• Business Writer
• Instructional Writer
• Content Writer
• Freelance Writer
• Course Writer
• Senior Copywriter
• Staff Writer
• Technical Writer
• Senior Writer
• SEO Writing
• Research Writer
• Fashion Writer

Distribute Your Job Ad Across the Internet

In the beginning, we didn’t have a Recruiting Coordinator to handle posting job ads, so our Content Managers and Editors had to do it. It wasn’t difficult for them, but they wasted time on something that wasn’t their job, instead of focusing on content creation.

The problem with getting a new face in is documenting your hiring process and educating the new employee. We had to spend hundreds of hours R&D-ing our documentation and making it work, but you don’t have to!

Register for Workello for free, and you will receive our recruitment documents so you can delegate the job to someone else!

A Single Dashboard That Will Become Your Silent Hero

A unified dashboard, coupled with a Workello-hosted application form, allows you to post job listings on as many websites as you want, and all applications will end up in the same spot—your Workello dashboard.

You no longer have to worry about missing out on a perfect Writer because their application slipped through the gaps.

Using the same form on all platforms will make all applications have the same format, and you won’t have to waste time following up with candidates due to lacking information.

Here’s an example of an application.

Watch Candidates Stream In

The same dashboard you use to gather candidates’ applications allows you to do the rest of the work—evaluate, test, invite Writers for interviews, and extend offers to the best ones.

The process of moving them through your funnel consists of a simple change in the candidate status you choose from the drop-down menu. The statuses you can assign to candidates are as follows:

1. Application Received
2. Application Rejected
3. Test Candidate
4. Test Complete
5. Reject Candidate
6. Invite for Interview
7. Send Offer

Every status is color-coded so that you can tell how many candidates you have in each stage of your hiring funnel.

Reject Unqualified Wikipedia Writers

When you receive an application, your Content Managers and Editors can access the Workello dashboard and evaluate the candidate.

If they don’t meet the criteria, your Managers can change their status to “Application Rejected,” triggering an automated email that informs the candidate about their application status.

This will remove the need for manual correspondence between you and the candidate you rejected.

Point, Click, Test

It’s easy to spot an unqualified candidate, but how do you spot a seemingly qualified candidate who isn’t good enough? Writers include only their best work in the portfolios, and that work has gone through at least one round of editing.

To find out what their actual 1st draft looks like, you need to test them yourself.

In the early days, we didn’t have any testing prepared and would use portfolios as our reference points. This was a costly mistake. We had to waste thousands of dollars on unusable content that our Editors had to change or rewrite completely.

That’s why we wanted to use Workello to introduce automated testing. Once you’re satisfied with a candidate’s application, you can change their status to “Test Candidate,” which will trigger an email with a:

1. Congratulations on being selected
2. Link to the test

When they click the link, they’ll see a page similar to this:

How To Make a Good Test

When creating a test, you should bear in mind that there has to be a balance between the thoroughness of the test and a candidate’s willingness to complete it.

It’s unreasonable to set up a 2,500-word test that would take 8+ hours to complete. Most Writers won’t go through with it—after all, they have to write for free for a job they may not get. 

Instead, opt for a shorter article that would test their skills on:

1. Article formatting
2. Language proficiency
3. Research skills

When you use Workello, you can create a more complex test. This is because candidates will appreciate the professionalism and transparency that comes with using our automated hiring funnel.

As they apply, they will receive a swift email and will be updated on their application status. Many Writers will appreciate this and will want to compete for an opportunity to work in a serious company.

If you can’t create a test of your own, don’t worry! Check out the test we used to hire Content Writers and adapt it to your company requirements.

Interviewing Candidates

The same link with test instructions also includes a box where a candidate can write or copy their sample. Once they submit the test, they can’t access it, and their status automatically changes to “Test Complete.”

Your Editors and Managers will be able to read and review it to rate the candidate. They can do so by changing the candidate status to:

1. Reject Candidate—Triggers an email that informs the candidate about the rejection
2. Invite for Interview—Triggers an email with a link where they can schedule a Zoom interview via Calendly

The Candidate Status Page

Workello provides a separate Candidate Status page your applicants can access. On this page, they can learn about their application status. The What to expect next section will provide them with additional information about your selection process.

The page will give them all the details they need, and they no longer have to ask about them via email.

This alleviates the pressure of having to answer dozens of emails each day from your Recruiting Coordinator, and you don’t have to worry about a top candidate growing disinterested because you took too long to respond to their email.

You can see the Candidate Status page here.

Our Investment Paid Off Big Time

When you have an automated hiring funnel that does everything for you, hiring a Wikipedia Writer becomes a mundane task. That’s not how our hiring process looked when we were scaling our business, though.

We stumbled upon issues every step of the way. Hundreds of applications would bombard us from dozens of job boards each day, and we couldn’t keep track of where they came from and who they were from.

We missed out on many great Writers because of our faulty hiring process. They wouldn’t receive any information from us as we were overwhelmed with applications. By the time we got to them, they were already snapped up by a different company or lost interest in ours.

Our Content Managers had to focus on creating manual writing tests instead of creating content. Our Editors were posting new job ads daily instead of editing, and our content creation suffered because of it.

We realized we needed to change that and decided to invest countless hours and $100,000+ into creating a system that would suit our hiring needs. We created Workello.

The funnel has helped us:

1. Hire 45+ Writers and Editors in under 2 years
2. Reduce our cost of content by 75%
3. Be the main force behind one of the most successful SEO projects ever
4. Allow our Editors and Content Managers to focus on their jobs, not recruitment

Workello cost us a fortune, but the investment paid off. You can now get it for the price of a single page of content!

Try out Workello for free! It’s set up so that you can start accepting candidates in less than 3 minutes.