Hiring Skilled Editors Can Be an Imposing Challenge—Learn From Our Experience!

Before developing Workello, we were an accomplished content company called Content Distribution.com. Back in 2019, we took on an ambitious VC-backed client who wanted to scale from 0 to 1,000,000 organic visitors per month. We exceeded their expectations and executed one of the most successful SEO campaigns on the internet! 

To accomplish this, we had to publish 600+ top-quality articles monthly. Our team wasn’t large enough to meet these demands, so we started hiring new writers in rapid succession.

Unfortunately for us, scaling our business from 1 to 45+ editors and writers proved to be a greater challenge than we had imagined. 

When candidates started to apply for our job ads, we had a difficult time logging all their applications since they were pouring in from different websites. Some applicants reached out via email while others spammed our chatbox on various social media.

It was a disaster, and all because we didn’t pay attention to the state of our hiring funnel. That’s when we decided to create a new, more efficient system that would streamline every repetitive element of our previous one.

We invested tons of money and spent countless hours in concentrated R&D until we got our final product—Workello!

In the next 15 minutes, we’ll show how to find Entrepreneur Magazine Editors that will suit your business perfectly, as well as how Workello will automate your funnel to make hiring skilled candidates a piece of cake!

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Why Finding Entrepreneur Magazine Editors Is an Uphill Battle

It’s not that hard to hire an average editor, but finding one that’s knowledgeable about entrepreneurship, digital marketing, and B2B is a challenge. Qualified editors—especially those specialized knowledge—are in high demand and short supply.

As top-performing editors go off the market fast, the majority of candidates on any job board will be unqualified. To find and hire a good editor, you’ll have to review and test hundreds of applicants—and you’ll need to do so with speed if you don’t want another company to extend them a job offer before you!

When we started scaling our editing team, we at first relied on Upwork and LinkedIn, though we soon cast a wider net that included Glassdoor, Monster, Indeed, Facebook, etc. This is when we started encountering problems:

• We had trouble tracking our candidates by their application status in our hiring funnel
• Job boards didn’t have features for targeting a specific kind of editor
• Candidates’ portfolios were often not an accurate representation of their skills

The more job boards we used, the worse it got.

We soon realized that our issues weren’t with the job boards we were using, but rather with our approach to hiring! That’s why we decided to devise a new, fully automated system that would source top-notch candidates with ease. It was a costly, time-consuming endeavor, but it paid off tenfold in the long run. The result was Workello!

Pre-Hire Assessments Ensure You Hire the Right Editor for Your Niche

Editors who claim to be specialized in any given niche need to have a specific set of skills and knowledge that goes above and beyond grammar rules. The problem is you’ll have a hard time finding industry experts if you just take their word for it. Deciding on the best candidate by looking at their CV and interviewing them no longer cuts it—you need a better hiring process.

The only way to know whether someone is as qualified as their resume lets on is to test them.

Using skill assessment software will help you automate this process and make sure you don’t lose your bearings in manually recording what candidate is in which stage of your hiring funnel.

With Workello, you can assess hundreds of candidates and cut your hiring costs in half effortlessly. Here’s how it works:

1. Create a free account and set up your hiring funnel in under 3 minutes
2. Post a job listing on as many job boards as you want and link your Workello job ad
3. Wait for applications to show up in your single-page dashboard
4. Send tests to eliminate unqualified applicants with impressive portfolios
5. Assess and reject candidates, schedule interviews, and send job offers with one click

Optimize Your Hiring Process and Avoid Hiring the Wrong Person

Workello is high-volume recruiting software that allows you to assess, test, interview, and hire top-shelf editors, as well as other members of your team. You can use the platform to test SEO writers, content writers, technical writers, and SEO copywriters and move them through the funnel with a single click of a button.

Sign up to Workello for free and conduct pre-employment assessments faster than your competitors.

Hiring Funnel of a Top 1% Hiring Agency

Our previous hiring was broken and it desperately needed a revamp. Still, we first needed to figure out what exactly went wrong—so we broke down our entire process to the smallest elements. This is what we eventually concluded:

1. To successfully lead a large-scale SEO project, we needed a high volume of quality content
2. Only top-performing editors can ensure all our content is of top quality
3. To find even one top-notch editor, we had to sort through hundreds of portfolios and test as many applicants
4. Hiring the most qualified editor meant filter out unskilled ones fast
5. We had trouble identifying underqualified editors—this was holding us back

After dozens of meetings and serious deliberation, we wrote down all of the features that our ideal hiring system had to have:

• A unified dashboard that could be used to view all applications regardless of their source
• The option to sort out candidates by their status in our hiring funnel
• The ability to review, test, interview, and either reject or hire candidates with a single button
• An automatic test that would let us easily identify sub-par editors with outstanding resumes
• An fully automated communications system that would streamline the repetitive task of keeping our candidates informed regularly while also lowering the chance of human error

We managed to introduce some improvements with the model Google Sheets + Google Forms + Zapier. Still, it was far off from what we had envisioned.

We sank even more working hours into our project and—after countless iterations—we finally designed Workello!

To Find the Right Editor for the Job, You Need a Detailed Job Description

Regardless of where you post your job ad, you’ll receive dozens of applications from unskilled candidates. Still, you can thin their numbers significantly by creating a well-written job description that details all the prerequisites that an ideal editor should meet.

An excellent job description should cover every skill an entrepreneur magazine editor needs to possess, the necessary work experience, knowledge of relevant terminology, level of education, as well as any other skills you believe are vital for the role. 

Since you’ll be competing with other companies and magazines, it’s wise to additionally include any benefits a talented editor will enjoy working for your company, such as PTOs, career advancement opportunities, and potential raises. This just might give you the competitive edge and make ambitious editors more willing to work for you over other companies hiring for the same role!

If you find yourself lacking inspiration when composing the job description, feel free to swipe one of our pre-vetted templates! Adapt it according to your company’s particular needs, and you can immediately use it in your search for the perfect Entrepreneur Magazine Editor!

• Magazine Editor
• Technical Editor
• Senior Editor
• Executive Editor
• Content Editor
• Financial Editor
• Managing Editor
• Chief Editor
• Scientific Editor
• Online Editor
• Social Media Editor
• Web Editor
• Newsletter Editor

Review All Candidate Applications In One Place!

Since applications will be streaming in from a dozen different job boards , you need an efficient means for viewing them all in a single place—and Workello provides just that!

With Workello, you can review all candidate applications without ever having to leave your unique Workello dashboard! This is because our custom Workello-hosted application form immediately forwards each submitted application directly to the dashboard for your recruiters to evaluate.

Since every candidate has to complete the same form, this eliminates the possibility of incomplete applications. In effect, this means you’ll no longer have to manually contact applicants who left out important information!

Here’s an example of the Workello-hosted application form.

Watch Candidates Stream In

Your Workello dashboard allows you to update a candidate’s status with one click. You’ll use it to move your candidates through the hiring funnel from beginning to end—from assessing portfolios, handing out tests, and setting up interviews, to hiring the most accomplished Entrepreneur Magazine Editor.

As they advance through each stage, you’re candidates’ status will change to one of the following:

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

To help you see at what stage each candidate is, every status is marked by a distinctive color.

Reject Unqualified Entrepreneur Magazine Editors

It is inevitable that you’ll receive more than a few applications from candidates who don’t meet your minimum hiring standards. If you spot such a candidate, you notify your recruiters so they can remove them from the hiring funnel via the Application Rejected option.

Workello will then automatically send them a message that politely informs them that your company won’t be extending them a job offer.

Due to this automation, your recruiters won’t have to waste several hours daily on manual replies to each rejected candidate. In addition, you won’t receive pointless email from candidates inquiring about their current status in the selection process.

Point, Click, Test

When hiring candidates, keep in mind that you can’t rely solely on their portfolios. While they may appear great, that doesn’t mean you should take them at face value. Candidates will only show you examples of their best work, which has usually gone through extensive revisions and meticulous QA.

To determine an editor’s actual capabilities, it is imperative that you test them.

Before implementing tests, we were naive enough to recruit editors based only on their resumes. It was a huge mistake which cost us thousands of dollars—and frustrated us to the core.

What we got was useless content that no respectable client would publish. The candidates’ editing skills were far below what we had expected, and we suffered for it.

This made us determined to devise an efficient testing system that would filter out bad editors.

Using Workello, you can send an automated test to your candidates via the Test Candidate feature. This option triggers an automatic email that:

1. Congratulates your candidates on passing the initial evaluation and reaching the testing stage
2. Provides them with a link that leads to the written test

When a candidate opens the link provided, they will see a page that resembles this one:

How To Make a Good Test

A well-composed test should allow you to accurately evaluate the following skills in an editor’s repertoire:

1. Grammar, spelling, and punctuation
2. Formatting
3. Understanding of various entrepreneurial topics
4. Ability to adapt the style and improve the flow of the article

While your test should be thorough, you can’t reasonably expect someone to edit an entire 5-page article as a test for a job they might not get. 

You should consider the editing test as merely a test—not an actual job. The key to composing a good test is moderation—make it exhaustive enough to test every major editing skill while balancing the candidates’ willingness to complete it.

Click here to learn how to set up a test in Workello in under 5 minutes.

Interviewing Candidates

When a candidate completes the test, they will no longer be able to access it and their status will change to Test Complete. You can then perform the evaluation. After you have finished reviewing their performance, you can then update the candidate’s status to:

1. Reject Candidate—Sends them an automatic email that informs about their failure to pass the editing test
2. Invite for Interview—The candidate gets an automated message congratulating them on passing the test and inviting them to set up an interview via Calendly

The Candidate Status Page

To make the hiring process even smoother, we’ve designed the Candidate Status page. Here, your candidates can see the current status of their application, eliminating the need to contact your HR team for specific details.

This page also integrates a What to expect next section that allows the candidates to stay informed as they pass through each subsequent stage of your hiring funnel.

With such an easy way to get regular updates on their status, you no longer need to worry about candidates’ losing interest due to inefficient communication!

Here’s an example of the Candidate Status page.

Our Investment Paid Off Big Time

It’s an easy matter to hire an Entrepreneur Magazine Editor when you’ve got a streamlined, automated hiring funnel. We didn’t have one when we started scaling our editing team—so we tackled each issue we faced manually.

Logging applications was a nightmare, as they came from varying sources. Due to this, we failed to keep in contact with some truly promising editors—they either lost interest or another company hired them first.

Our content managers and editors were neglecting their roles in order to post job ads, review resumes, and create tests. Because of this, our content production was falling behind the client’s demands, and we were exasperated.

We realized that this couldn’t go on, so we rolled up our sleeves and began work on our own fully automated system—Workello!

The new system allowed us to accomplish the following:

1. Scale our team from 1 to 45+ editors and writers in just 18 months
2. Cut the costs of producing content by 75%
3. Lead one of the most ambitious SEO projects of all time
4. Let our editors and content managers prioritize their actual roles

Creating Workello was a challenging endeavor that took us many months of R&D. Countless iterations and $100,000+ later, we now have our ideal hiring system. Now, it can be yours for the price of a single page of content!

Try Workello for free. Everything is pre-configured, so you can start accepting applications in less than 3 minutes!