We Developed a More Efficient Way To Hire UX Copywriters—See How We Accomplished It!

Back in 2019, when we Content Distribution.com, an ambitious content agency that took on a content project for a VC-backed client to grow their organic online traffic from 0 to 1,500,000 monthly visitors. We managed to accomplish this in under 2 years and executed one of the best SEO campaigns EVER!

This was no easy feat, especially considering that we had to scare our team from 1 to 45+ writers and editors in order to publish 600+ pages each month. 

Our troubles began as soon as we posted our first job listing. We were unable to efficiently track candidates’ applications and log them properly once they arrived. Some came in radically different formats, and our editors had to manually convert them before they could be reviewed.

There was no uniformity—candidates reached out to our recruiters directly via email and even on social media. Unfinished and poorly-composed resumes were a common sight.

We lacked any sort of automated communication and lost many splendid candidates as a consequence of that. Our editors had to both edit content and post job listings—which set back our content production.

We knew this couldn’t go on much longer, so we began working on a new, fully automated system whose optimized features would perfectly counter each of our problems. After investing hundreds of hours, upwards of $100,000, and all of our agency’s brainpower into this daring project, we had an all-encompassing solution.

In this article, we’ll show you our selection of the best 15 job boards for hiring UX copywriters. 

You’ll also learn how you can set up a fully automated hiring funnel to hire a better UX copywriter faster and cut hiring costs IN HALF with Workello!

Where To Find a Top-Skilled Senior UX Copywriter—Take A Look at One of These 15 Websites

We tried out various job boards during our hiring spree. Here’s a comprehensive list of pros and cons for each one we used:

Here Are Some of the Difficulties You’ll Face in Your Search for a Senior UX Copywriter

A top-performing Senior UX Copywriter will be hard to find regardless of the job board you’re using. Ambitious companies snatch them up quickly, as expert copywriting services are always in high demand. This means you’ll always face tight competition for that perfect candidate.

As a tech company hiring a Senior Ux Copywriter, you’ll have to evaluate hundreds of applications and test dozens of candidates to find the best match for your company. 

When we first began hiring copywriters, our editors posted ads on Upwork and LinkedIn. We didn’t get any exceptionally good candidates in a few weeks, so we decided to expand to other job boards as well. Nothing changed. 

Regardless of the job board, the three biggest difficulties we faced were:

• Inability to track our candidates’ progress through each stage of the hiring process
• Lack of specific settings for UX Copywriters
• Dubious portfolios that didn’t accurately represent candidates’ abilities

Candidates were applying by the dozens each day—on Facebook, Monster, Indeed, Glassdoor, and via email. The sheer number of application took us by surprise, and our hiring system was too outdated to help us:

• Properly log each application
• Respond to all candidates on time
• Sort out candidates by their status in our hiring funnel
• Keep track of UX Copywriters whose resumes our editors liked
• Filter out candidates who didn’t possess the adequate skills for the role

We employed sub-optimal methods that weren’t getting us anywhere—for this to change, our hiring system needed an overhaul. 

This became our top priority, and we immediately started investing money, time, and brainpower into devising a new, better, fully automated system that would bring these changes about—Workello.

Why You Should Test Technical Content Professionals Before Hiring Them

Hiring skilled members for your content team has never been an easy task, but the challenge is even bigger if you’re looking for an experienced technical writer or editor. It’s easy for candidates to amp up their resumes and portfolios with niche-specific samples that have been heavily edited by third-party collaborators, and you’ll be none the wiser about the quality of their work until you hire them. The only way to gauge their actual skills is to add pre-employment assessments to your hiring process.

Testing candidates is impossible without skill assessment software to keep everything organized and under control. Without it, you’ll have to communicate with candidates, send tests, collect and grade them, and keep track of what stage of the hiring process each candidate is in.

Workello is high-volume recruiting software that takes care of the entire process for you. After you sign up for free, you’ll find the perfect candidate by taking the following steps:

1. Launch your pre-configured hiring funnel in under 3 minutes
2. Add a Workello link to your job postings on all job boards you use
3. Wait for applications to come your way
4. Send tests to applicants to test their technical writing skills
5. Reject, interview, and hire candidates from your single-page dashboard

Test Candidates for Technical Roles Effortlessly With Workello

You can use Workello to test technical writers in any industry. The platform is not for technical writing only—you can use it to test content writers and SEO writers as well. With Workello, you can manage candidates through the entire selection process without ever leaving your dashboard. Use Workello’s free trial to sign up and see for yourself how fast you will identify the top 1% of technical writer candidates.

Hiring Funnel of a Top 1% Hiring Agency

Creating an entirely new system from scratch is a long, costly process—and our first step was to figure out why our existing hiring funnel was so inefficient. After breaking it down into its essential components and reviewing each one, this is what we came up with:

1. To attract millions of monthly visitors and convert them into paid customers, we needed skilled, experienced content and copywriters
2. Only a top-notch copywriters have the necessary skills to create convincing, quality copy
3. Hiring even a single copywriter meant quickly sorting through dozens of portfolios and testing many candidates
4. To find skilled candidates, we had to spot and disqualify the unskilled ones
5. Identifying and filtering out sub-par applicants was something we consistently struggled with

It was easy to attract applicants via our job ads—we got stuck in place only after they arrived in our funnel. To make any progress in our hiring spree, we had to optimize our system and introduce several key features:

1. An easily accessible platform that would act as a gathering place for all applications regardless of their source website
2. An efficient candidate-sorting system that would allow us to move our candidates through each stage of the selection process with one click
3. A unified dashboard that can be used to review portfolios, distribute tests, invite for interview, and ultimately hire a top-performing candidate
4. A testing system that will let us identify and filter out poor candidates with spotless resumes
5. An automated communication system that will save our recruiters time on manually going back-and-forth with each candidate via email

The first iteration of our new system relied on the combination of Google Sheets + Google Forms + Zapier. Still, it was just the first in a long series of iterations—we achieved Workello only after a long, grueling process of constant improvement and refinement.

Crafting a Great Job Description Will Yield You Superior Candidates!

Regardless of where you post your job ad, you’ll face a continuous stream of lackluster applications. You can’t prevent unskilled candidates from applying, but a well-crafted, in-depth job description will discourage many of those who don’t meet your most basic hiring criteria.

Aside from this, your job description copy serves a dual purpose, as it:

• Describes the specific responsibilities that the role entails, as well as the prerequisite skills and required work experience that a prospective candidate should possess
• Promotes your company to ambitious, top-skilled Senior UX Copywriters by informing them of all the benefits that employment in your company provides, such as potential raises, career advancement possibilities, the number of PTO days, and your health insurance plan

Be sure to be as precise as possible regarding the exact role you’re searching for—or else every type of copywriter might think the job is right up their alley! This means you should state that you’re specifically looking for a senior candidate with considerable experience creating copy for digital products.

That said, you don’t have to start from scratch when writing your job ad. You can leverage our premade job descriptions template, slightly adapt them according to the needs of your organization, and start hiring today!

• UX Writer
• Copywriter
• Junior Copywriter
• Senior Copywriter
• B2B Copywriter
• SEO Copywriter
• Freelance Copywriter
• Conversion Copywriter
• Direct Marketing Copywriter

Review All Applications in Your Unique Workello Dashboard

Logging applications and tracking candidates gave us nightmares before Workello fixed the issue for us. The solution was deceptively easy—a well-integrated single-page dashboard that serves as the only access point for all applications.

We also resolved the problem of incomplete applications by using a custom Workello-hosted application form. Once a candidate opens your job ad—no matter the website they find it on—they need to complete the same application form in order to apply. 

This way, every application will unmistakably arrive in the same format, which means you won’t have to manually email candidates who were either too vague or left out vital information.

Check out an example application form here.

Watch Candidates Stream In

Workello lets you conduct every stage of your hiring process from a single page—your Workello dashboard! It has all the features required to review portfolios, distribute tests automatically, schedule interviews, and lastly hire the Senior UX Copywriter of your choice.

Moving your candidates along through the funnel has also never been easier. To change a candidate’s status, just select the appropriate option in the drop-down menu:

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

For accessibility and ease of use, each status is color-coded. Because of this, you can see what stage your candidates have reached at a quick glance.

Reject Unqualified UX Copywriters

It’s inevitable that you’ll have to reject a good number of your candidates even before the testing stage. If you find someone whose portfolio does not satisfy your company’s current business needs, you can remove them from the selection process by picking the Application Rejected option.

This leads to Workello sending the candidate an automatic rejection email letting them know of your decision. Due to this automation, your recruiters also won’t get swamped with numerous emails from candidates inquiring about their application status.

Point, Click, Test

Just because you’ve received an impressive portfolio, that doesn’t mean you’ll get an equally impressive UX Copywriter. Portfolios include only their best work, and the copy featured has likely undergone at least one round of editing.

To determine the real quality of their skills, you need to see their raw first draft. The best way to do this is by sending them a brief copywriting test.

We didn’t have an automated testing system at first—or any sort of test, in fact. Instead, we naively believed in the sincerity of our candidates’ portfolios and hired them without putting their skills to the test beforehand.

Needless to say, it was a disastrous move. We threw away tons of money on poor content that no self-respecting client would want.

Avoiding this meant devising a fine-tuned testing system that would allow us to spot unqualified candidates instantly—and that’s what we did with Workello!

To test your candidates, select the Test Candidate option. This triggers an automated email:

1. Informing candidates that they have successfully entered the testing stage
2. Sending them a link to the copywriting test

The page your candidate opens upon selecting the link looks a bit like this:

How To Make a Good Test

To determine if a UX Copywriter is suitable for your team, you need to assess the following abilities in their arsenal:

1. Language proficiency (spelling, punctuation, style)
2. Ability to create compelling copy that reliably convert website visitors into paid customers
3. Formatting skills

As you strive to cover these crucial points, be careful not to overdo it. You can’t reasonably expect someone to write an entire landing page for your application as a test for a job they might not even get. After all, your candidates’ time is restricted—and ambitious top-performers will respect you if you take timeliness, as well as thoroughness into consideration when making your test.

As luck would have it, you’re able to make a far more in-depth test when using Workello. With every major task automated, the whole hiring process is so intuitive and responsive that top-notch Senior UX Copywriters won’t object to completing even a more complex test.

Click here to see how you can set up an automated copywriting test in Workello in just 3 minutes!

Interviewing Candidates

Once a candidate completes the test and turns it in, their status will change to Test Complete. You can then review their performance and move them further along the hiring funnel by selecting one of two options:

1. Reject Candidate—The rejected candidate will get an automatic email informing them that they have failed to meet your company’s test criteria
2. Invite for Interview—The candidate gets an automated message notifying them about their success in the testing stage and inviting them to set up an interview via Calendly

The Candidate Status Page

To keep your candidates informed about their application status at all times, we’ve created the Candidate Status page. It contains all the necessary information they need, making it obsolete to manually contact your recruiters for additional instructions.

The page also includes a What to expect next subsection, where your candidates can learn about the requirements of each stage in your hiring process.

With Workello—missing out on talented candidates because of stalled communication is an issue of the past!

Check out the layout of the Candidate Status page here.

Our Investment Paid Off Big Time

Before Workello made hiring candidates a mundane chore, we faced huge obstacles at every step of the process. Tracking applications took too much time and effort so we couldn’t reliably stay in touch with every single candidate. Many qualified UX Copywriters became disheartened and left because we didn’t get back to them quickly enough.

Our editors had the double responsibility of conducting the recruitment process and editing content. Top performance in both areas simultaneously was impossible—our content production stagnated while our hiring problems stayed.

We were in dire straits, and urgency is precisely what prompted us to create a new, fully automated system tailored to our business needs—Workello!

The new, automated hiring funnel enabled us to:

• Scale our team from 1 to 45+ employees in just 18 months
• Decrease the cost of producing top-notch content by 75%
• Execute one of the most ambitious SEO projects ever
• Let our editors focus on editing articles instead of postings job listings

It took us determination, effort, and many months of exhausting R&D to finally come up with Workello. You can now use it for the negligible price of a single content page!

Try using Workello for free! Everything is pre-configured—just create an account and you can start accepting candidates right away!