What are some good interview questions to ask freelance CW for a brand that is very demanding and detail oriented with a lot of needs annotating and picking up enough brand acumen to push projects through the life cycle across departments

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“What’s your favorite thing about being micromanaged?”

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Ask your company not to be so bloody cheap and to instead use a writer with the relevant experience. Then you won’t have to explain that the needs of the account are consistent with what they are used to in every other freelance job they’ve done. Better still, by using a oroperly experienced freelance writer you can dispense with the time-wasting practice of interviewing them like it’s a full-time gig for a junior writer.

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Unreal. Clearly this isn’t your fault OP, but whatever agency is forcing you to hire cheaper, unqualified freelancers is not an agency I want to work for.

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“do you enjoy minutiae?”

I’ve been a freelance copywriter for many years. In this situation, I often like to be asked a question like “give us some examples of really tough clients you’ve worked for?“ Or, “any examples of really stringent brand standards that you have been able to master over the years?“ A good freelancer will not be able to shut up about their qualifications in this area.

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