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In this episode, we're going to talk about hiring remote staffing yourself or hiring through a company. So the two main differences, I feel, are when you go to those other sites to hire them directly, understand that a lot of those people are professional hires. You're going to pay them $8 an hour. They get 825. They're gone. They're always looking for that next pay bump as opposed to somebody who says, hey, man, I just want to have stability.
This company is going to look out for me. It is crazy to even think about hiring remote staffing people on your own and not going through a company because the dollars that it is going to save you is completely not worth your time to where you can be going and working on productive activity and sales. And I'm going to tell you this.
Hey, welcome back to our Stamp Staff podcast. And in this episode, we're going to talk about hiring remote staffing yourself or hiring through a company. So hiring remote staffing through an actual remote staffing company. And we're going to talk about the difference of the two. So what do you say, Mark? So there's two different ones. You can hire a company and they'll go.
They'll find the virtual assistants or the remote staff people. They'll bring them to you. You can hire them or you can go on different websites and try to hire them. So the two main differences, I feel, are when you go to those other sites to hire them directly, understand that a lot of those people are professional hires. And what I mean by that is they're always looking for the next big thing.
They come there, their resume resumes there. You're going to pay them $8 an hour. They get 825. They're gone. Could be tomorrow, could be in six months, could be in a year. But they're always looking for that next pay bump. And so it's just a different personality of people that go there to be hired as opposed to somebody who says, hey, man, I just want to have stability.
I want to know that I'm going to have a job in a weekend and I'm going to have a job in six months and I'm going to have a job in a year. This company is going to look out for me. They're going to go out, find the people who are going to hire me and I'm going to work for them.
So that's a big difference. I see. Okay. I definitely agree that they're always looking for the next best thing. So when you are hiring a person on your own, just realize that. And we've seen it over the last ten years or so or 11 years that we've been working with remote staffing people, we have seen it where they just jump from job to job to job.
So you may have spent 100 hours working with them, training them, hiring them, putting systems together with them and everything else, and then all of a sudden they just show up missing. They're just gone and they tell you, oh, somebody in my family is sick or I just moved or whatever their excuses are. The other thing is, is they are potentially working with more clients than just you.
Yeah. Yeah, they're double dipping. Exactly. The other thing that they do is they're taking on a lot of the time we've seen them and they're taking on project work like Fiverr, Upwork, different companies like that. They're doing that as well now. Can they do that through a company? Absolutely.
But you usually catch it much quicker and you're going to catch up with like, okay, not catch next year, but the company will because the company understands and it looks at and they look for it. Yeah. So you're hiring for the first time and then this company is like, well, wait a second. We have literally hundreds of thousands, however many people they have working for them, they understand and they can recognize the activities.
So there's always keys that people give away when they're doing that and they're like, Hey, so if they have a management staff that's looking over them and, you know, they may not catch it today, but they're going to catch it real soon, within a few days where, hey, something's off. Well, and the thing is, is if you're hiring through a company like we have a remote staff company and you're hiring through us, first of all, to get hired through us, we are looking at hundreds of resumes to hire one.
And then to get through training. Our training, no matter what it is, is 120 hours. So they have to commit to it. And they have to get through it. And so we usually catch most things during that 120 hour training process. So most of them don't actually only like 20% actually make it all the way through training because of things like this.
Either they're late or put the numbers together. It's a thousand people, thousand resumes to hire one. Like that's our that's our numbers to actually work for us. It's a thousand resumes come in. We'll choose a handful, maybe five that will start training and then one that'll make it through all the way. And it really depends on the position and everything else.
But overall, we have people that are working all the time in the recruiting department that are looking at these things, that are hiring these things. And we go through the first the second interview because we've been doing it for so long. We can I mean, here's a perfect example. So we're big into video editing and you will have people hire videographers to edit videos.
And like literally, I see them putting out content that if on day two of training, literally if a videographer for us on day two of training does this, we kick them out. They're done. You kick them out. We say, Man, it's not for you. I love I love Mark's saying or the way Mark says things are, we just kick them out? Well, they're virtual.
I can't. We let them go. We let them go. But then those people will keep them like you see them. And I'm like, That's cool. Because they don't know, correct? They don't know. But the other thing is, is they hire somebody like a marketing person in house to edit videos and they're paying 25, 30, $40 an hour to do this.
It's a specialized thing. So a person who videographer that's a specialized thing, a video editor, that's a specialized thing, a video director, a viral director. That's a real specialized thing. Like that's. But what I'm saying is they're just paying way too much money. And this is where company is actually. You think, okay, I can save money if I hire them on their own.
And over, you know, the decade that we've been working with with remote staffing people, that's not true. Because by the time that you hire, train and rehire and retrain and look for people and scalable better, it's more scalable with the company. Because think about how long it takes you to hire one and to scale, you need to hire five, six, seven, ten, however big your company is.