It’s Tough To Hire Travel Writers That Know Their Job Inside Out—But Workello Makes It Easier!

Back when Workello was just a far-flung idea, we were an ambitious content company that successfully ran one of the best SEO campaigns ever launched. Through diligence and perseverance in spite of the odds stacked against us, we managed to grow our client’s traffic from 0 to 1,000,000 monthly visitors in under 2 years!

To accomplish this, we had to hit the gas on our content production. This meant scaling our writing team from 1 to 45 writers and editors in a short space of time, and it didn’t take us long to discover that our hiring system was outdated and ineffective.

Many applicants were submitting their resumes by email. Some would attach their portfolios in DMs on different websites. Every other candidate would use a different format. In short—our hiring funnel was in utter disarray.

We had our content managers and editors post job ads and compose tests at short notice. This only increased their already substantial workload, and our content production was slowing to a crawl because of that. Since there wasn’t an ATS that could fix all our issues single-handedly, we went to the drawing board in hopes of finding our own solution.

After many hours of ponderous research and having invested more than $100,000 into our new project, there finally came a breakthrough—we developed a functional, fully automated hiring funnel, and named it Workello!

In the next 10+ minutes, we’ll show you the best online job boards, as well as how you can hire Travel Writers affordably.

Where Do Companies Find Freelance Travel Writers—The Top 15 Hiring Websites

In the following table, we’ll give you all the pros and cons of popular job boards used by companies that hire Travel Writers:

Continue reading this article, and you’ll find another 15 job boards you can use to hire Travel Writers.

What You Should Watch Out For When Hiring a Travel Writer

Companies that hire Travel Writers, such as Outpost Magazine and World Nomads, snap up qualified candidates faster than any job board can realistically provide new ones. Tourist agencies and travel writing publishers alike will be posting job ads on the same websites you’re using—it’s their “We are hiring travel writers!” announcement against yours.

Due to the large competition, you have to act fast—quickly evaluate, test, interview, and hire promising writers before another agency recognizes their talent!

It’s a fact of life that you’ll always have bad applicants who are eager to apply for the job you’re offering. The secret to hiring a Travel Writer of the highest caliber is simple—you need to assess hundreds of resumes and test dozens of candidates very quickly.

When we started hiring new people, we would put up our job listings on Upwork. Soon enough, we expanded to other websites, but no job board could fix these fundamental issues:

• It was impossible to track where candidates were in our hiring funnel
• Job boards didn’t have settings that could target Travel Writers
• Resumes didn’t paint the full picture of an applicant’s actual writing skills 

As we started branching out to other job boards, including LinkedIn, Monster, and Glassdoor, we began encountering more of the same problems. No matter what we tried, we couldn’t:

• Track applicants by their status in our hiring funnel
• Efficiently catalog all applications
• Thin the number of unskilled applicants
• Take note of the top-performing Travel Writers we liked
• Reply to promising candidates on time

There was nothing we could do to address all these issues simultaneously, so we decided to go to the drawing board and devise something original—something dedicated to hiring content writers!

Recreating our commitment to content production, we invested countless hours of our work time and spent more than $100,000 to develop an automated hiring funnel dedicated to writing teams. The reward we got for our trouble? A highly optimized system called Workello!

Pre-Hire Assessments Allow You To Hire the Best Writer in Your Niche

You’ll never get an applicant that admits they have no idea how to write content for your niche. While their portfolios may include some industry-related articles, you’ll never know how good they are at it until you see their first draft. Don’t wait to hire them for that to happen—improve your hiring process with pre-employment assessments.

Coming up with a writing test is the easy part. What do you do when hundreds of writing samples start flooding your inbox? You need skill assessment software to keep the process organized and to avoid missing out on a top candidate due to an email you forgot to respond to.

Workello will entirely automate your hiring process and take care of assessment management. You only need to:

1. Create a free account and set up a pre-configured hiring funnel in under 3 minutes
2. Add a Workello link to your job listings (works with all job boards)
3. Wait for applications to start coming your way
4. Send tests to spot bad writers with impressive portfolios fast
5. Reject, interview, and hire the best candidates with a single click

Streamline Your Testing Process and Hire the Top 1% of Writers With Workello

With Workello—high-volume recruiting software—you can automate your entire hiring process and cut costs by 50%. Use our platform to test content writers for whatever writing needs you have, be it technical, SEO, or any other type of writing. You can also assess copywriters and SEO copywriters.

Sign up for free and assess, test, reject, interview, and hire writers from your Workello dashboard effortlessly.

Hiring Funnel of a Top 1% Hiring Agency

Before we could revamp our hiring process, we first needed to figure out what was wrong with it. To do that, we broke it down into discrete elements and painstakingly analyzed each one. This was our thought-pattern:

1. To grow a client’s organic traffic, we needed a high-volume output of superb content
2. Only the best writers can create valuable content
3. To hire a single qualified writer, we had to go through hundreds of portfolios
4. If we wanted to snap up top-quality writers, we had to spot and eliminate bad ones fast
5. Filtering out poor writers—that was our weak spot

When it comes to receiving applications, we never had any issues. Candidates would submit them, and they would arrive by the dozens. Trouble started stirring once they came in and we didn’t know how to track them all! We realized that an automated process would solve these problems, allowing us to track promising candidates while filtering out unqualified ones in record time.

As we brainstormed Workello, we came up with a list of features it would need to integrate:

1. An optimized platform that would provide an overview of all received applications regardless of their source website
2. The option to move applicants through the hiring funnel by updating their status with one click
3. An all-purpose dashboard which you can use to review, test, schedule interviews, and either reject bad candidates or extend offers to successful ones
4. The ability to send tests that can allow us to identify bad writers at a single glance
5. An streamlined communication system that would save us time on manual correspondence and reduce the risk of human error

We tried improving our workflows with the combination Google Sheets + Google Forms + Zapier. It took us one step closer to the ideal hiring system we had envisioned, but we were still a ways off from perfection.

Numerous months of trial and error later, we managed to assemble a streamlined, fully automated hiring funnel—Workello!

How a Comprehensive Job Description Helps You Hire Travel Writers More Efficiently!

No hiring system can filter out unskilled candidates completely—they will apply despite not being qualified enough, and you will have to sort through their portfolios . Even though you can’t uproot them all from your hiring funnel, you can reduce their numbers by a significant amount with a well-put-together job ad.

To do this, it is wise to compose a highly detailed job description that covers all the responsibilities and demands of the position you’re offering in your company. State in precise terms all of the requirements and responsibilities that the role of Travel Writer entails, including prior work experience in the travel niche and the appropriate education degree. A qualified candidate should also have the writing acumen to successfully captivate potential readers with engaging travel content.

This will discourage unskilled candidates from sending an application while outstanding Travel Writers will recognize you as a professional company that knows what qualities it’s looking for.

Since top-performing candidates get hired in the blink of an eye, you should be quick to point out all the benefits employment in your company offers. This includes the monthly/annual salary, promotion possibilities, health insurance plans, and your policy on PTO days. All this will give qualified applicants an incentive to work for you instead of the competition.

If you need some basic outlines for what your Travel Writer job description should look like, feel free to check Workello’s knowledge base for a comprehensive list of pre-made templates! Swipe one, adjust it—adding some modifications according to your specific needs—and you’ll be ready to start hiring travel writers in under 5 minutes!

• Content Writer
• Freelance Writer
• Senior Writer
• Website Content Writer
• SEO Copywriter
• Senior Copywriter
• Digital and Multiplatform Content Writer
• Marketing Communications Writer
• Nutrition Writer
• E-commerce Content Writer
• Science Writer
• Quality Assurance Technical Writer
• Law Firm Content Writer
• Digital Content Writer
• Press Release Writer

Distribute Your Job Ads Across the Internet

When we started hiring new writers, we didn’t have a specialized recruitment role in our company. Although the task of recruiting wasn’t hard, it fell to our editors and content managers to oversee the recruitment process—posting job ads and composing tests on the fly.

We thought about hiring a Recruiting Coordinator, but we first had to document our whole hiring process. To relegate the job to someone else, we had no way around this—we logged and carefully analyzed every aspect of our system.

With Workello, you can now skip this tiresome task—and get straight to hiring!

Create a Workello account for free, and you will get free access to our database. It has all the documentation you’ll need to delegate the job to a Recruiting Coordinator!

Keep Track of Your Applications on Workello’s Multi-Purpose Dashboard!

When using Workello, nothing is stopping you from posting your job listings on as many hiring platforms as you can use! It doesn’t matter from which site a candidate sends you their application—every single one will appear in your Workello dashboard.

Due to our Workello-hosted application form, all submissions will arrive in the same format. This means you no longer need to worry about half-done resumes and portfolios.

In addition to this, our unified dashboard eliminates the need to manually contact candidates with information regarding each stage of your hiring funnel.

You can check out what our applications looked like here.

Watch Candidates Stream In

The Workello dashboard will be your single point of input during each stage of the candidate selection process. You will use it to review applications, send your writing tests, and reject candidates or set up interviews with them.

You can update your candidates’ status with a single click. All you need to do is select the appropriate option from the drop-down toolbar:

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 marked by a different color, so you can instantly tell how many applicants you have in each stage of your hiring funnel.

Reject Unqualified Travel Writers

When an application comes in, content managers and editors will be able to evaluate it immediately. If they find a candidate’s resume lacking, they can swiftly remove them from the hiring funnel by updating their status to Application Rejected.

An automated rejection email will trigger, politely informing the candidate that they will not be entering the next stage of the selection process. This message automation will additionally save you time that you’d have to waste communicating with each rejected candidate separately.

Point, Click, Test

When hiring Travel Writers, never base your decisions solely on the portfolio they sent you. Poor writers can—more often than you think—have lustrous resumes. They are often edited or adapted by a third-party beforehand and don’t give you much detail about a writer’s actual abilities.

To see if they are truly experts at their craft, you’ll have to test them.

When we started out, we made the beginner’s mistake of hiring writers based exclusively on their applications. Because of this misstep, we ended up paying for useless articles that our editors had to rewrite entirely.

It was clear that we needed an efficient testing system to circumvent these issues in the future. Now, with Workello’s automated features, you can test an applicant with one single click that will update their status to Test Candidate.

This triggers an automated message that:

1. Congratulates them on making it to the testing stage
2. Provides them with a link to the written test

When an applicant opens the link, they will see a page that looks a bit like this:

How To Make a Good Test

Before you start composing your test, you should have these two factors in mind:

• Well-roundedness—A good test should give you ample opportunities to test your candidates for key writing skills

• A candidate’s willingness to complete it—It shouldn’t be too demanding, as even seasoned Travel Writers will be put off by a 3000-word assignment for a job they may not even get

It is important to achieve the golden balance between these two opposing factors.

To ascertain a candidate’s competency for the job, test them for the following skills:

1. Grip on the language
2. Extensive topical knowledge about the travel and tourism industries
3. Formatting

Since Workello’s automated features allow for greater transparency of the hiring process, qualified candidates will be even more likely to complete even an exhaustive test. If you’ve left a positive impression on them during your contact, they will have all the more reasons to join your company instead of a competitor’s!

If you’re not sure what your test should include, you can utilize the one we employed to hire our writers. Modify it slightly, and you can use it to start hiring Travel Writers right away!

Interviewing Candidates

When a candidate’s portfolio arrives, their status in your dashboard will immediately change to Test Complete. After this, your editors and content managers can evaluate their work, and either:

• Reject Candidate—Triggers an automated email that informs the candidate about their removal from the hiring funnel
• Invite for Interview—Informs the candidate that they have successfully passed the test and provides them with instructions on how to schedule a Zoom meeting via Calendly

The Candidate Status Page

Workello also makes the selection process easier for your applicants since they’ll have access to their own Candidate Status page. It will provide them with all the vital information they need about their status in your hiring funnel. Besides this, a convenient What to expect next section will give them an opportunity to prepare for the next stage of the selection process.

With the Candidate Status page, you don’t need to fret about a top candidate slipping past you just because you didn’t get back to them on time! What’s more, your inbox won’t be crowded with emails from candidates wondering about the status of their application.

The Candidate Status page looks like this:

Our Investment Paid Off Big Time

A polished, automated hiring process makes hiring Travel Writers sound like a breeze. You’d think it was the norm, but—when we started hiring, there wasn’t anything like Workello to pave the way for us.

Applications were swarming our editing and content management teams, so they had to focus more and more on reviewing resumes and posting ads—instead of performing their main tasks. Our content production started to falter, and we seemed trapped in an inescapable, hiring hell!

We didn’t manage to stay in touch with some promising candidates while others got snapped up by competing agencies. The applications themselves were not uniform, and they came in varying formats—which made it more difficult to review them all properly.

All this made us resolute in our desire to create a more stable and efficient hiring system.

After making a swooping investment of more than $100,000 and spending hundreds of hours immersed in carefully thought-out R&D, we finally got what we wanted! Our end product, Workello, allowed us to:

1. Lower the costs of our content production by up to 75%
2. Launch one of the most ambitious SEO projects ever
3. Grow our writing team from 1 to 45+ writers in under 2 years
4. Enable our managers and editors to refocus on their actual responsibilities—creating and monitoring content

To get where we are today, we had to sink hundreds of hours and $100,000+ into our project. With Workello, you can enjoy all the benefits without any of the trouble—all for the price of a single content page!

Try out Workello for free, and revamp your hiring funnel in under 3 minutes!

Another 15 Websites You Can Use When Hiring Travel Writers

With Workello backing you up, there’s no reason not to disseminate your job ads across as many job boards as you can! After all, they will all end up in the same place—your handy Workello dashboard!

Here’s our selection of another 15 job boards you can use when hiring Travel Writers:

• Writer Access
• Freelancer
• Guru
• PeoplePerHour
• BloggingPro
• JournalismJobs
• Hire Writers
• Freelance Writing
• Freelance Writing Gigs
• Constant Content
• Writers Work
• Scripted
• Mediabistro
• Online Writing Jobs
• Be a Freelance Blogger