Hi!
It's Tyrone Shum from Outsourcing Live and in today's video, I want to answer a question
about how to hire a video editor.
So let's just jump straight into it.
I'm going to share with you inside this video what are the qualities to look for when hiring
a video editor and also top tips on hiring for a video editor, things that I've experienced
when I went to hire my own.
And as you can see from the videos I've done, everything has been outsourced to them.
I don't have any skills in doing all these kind of type of editing.
All I'm really good at doing is creating the content for this.
So let's just jump straight into it.
And I'm going to talk from my experience on what I look out for or look for when I hired
a video editor.
The first thing I was really keen and also too looking out for was having a "can do"
attitude.
As you see this little boy at the right hand inside here, he's really happy, he's really
"can do" type of person and I did look out for that quality.
Somebody who I'm able to communicate with, somebody who I was able to do the things that
I share with them and say look, this is what I've got here, come back to me and have it
completed and made a certain deadline and being able with a creative solution as well,
too.
So that's what I was looking for in a video editor.
I know these things may not sound very important but in the long term, when you are looking
for quality people, that's what you need to look out for.
And a "can do" attitude is very important so make sure you find that type of person
who can do that.
The other thing is or the next thing is when I was looking for a video editor is I was
looking for his creative ability, seeing how he comes together with his type of style in
his video editing methods.
I wanted to be able to see that from the videos and what I did was I just gave him one task,
one simple task and it was just unedited raw videos which I sent across to him and when
he came back to me, he came back with a final product or draft on how I wanted it.
and pretty much just from looking at that and looking at his portfolio, it pretty much
said yes to me this is the person that I want to hire.
And that's what I looked for in a video editor.
So make sure that when you're hiring someone, when you're talking through them, test them,
try out what they're doing.
See what their portfolio looks like and then from there you can make decision whether or
not they've got that creative ability.
And then finally, this is also enticing very well as well with creative ability is the
right skill set.
It's obvious if they've got that creative ability who can come up with that style or
that feature, or add that special effects to that video then obviously from there they've
got to have that right skill set because in order to be able to take that ability to import
and edit inside videos and to use the right software to do that, that comes as a skill.
And it can take a long time to learn if you are to pick that up yourself and that's the
reason why outsourcing it to a video editor, somebody who's got the experience can do that
for you.
Okay so those are the things that I look out for when I'm hiring a video editor.
Now, what I want to share with you are my top tips for hiring a video editor and these
tips you can take away and just keep these in mind when you're looking for them.
So first thing I want to share with you is "hire slow, fire fast" and this is a quote
from Tom Gegax which is also part of the Nightingale Conant's collection and basically the thing
is it takes a bit of time to find that right person.
Don't jump straight into it and hire the first person.
Obviously trial it out, make sure you go through a process and interview a lot of people before
you do hire them.
That right one will come when you do see the right thing.
So take your time with hiring.
Now, it can cost a lot if you do hire too quickly because the wrong person can come
along and waste a lot of your time.
So just take that on board and that's the tip that I recommend is to hire slow, fire
fast.
The other thing is to test the professional skills.
The best thing to do from my experience is I usually give them a 2 to 3-week trial period
and you can go up to a month review if you wish to desire but in that period of time
when you start working with them and giving them work in their probational period, you
can find out whether or not they made the skill set that you're looking for.
And if they do just from the outset of showing their portfolio and to do a test that you've
just provided for them, you can see straightaway from there whether or not they'll be working
with you long term.
The next tip that I can recommend you is to interview them.
Make sure you do get in front of the camera with them, listen to them how they speak,
how they communicate with you and make sure that they do turn up to the interview on time.
So that's something very important, don't overlook that.
Because a lot of people spend a lot of time looking through their resumes and after that
they just go okay hire me just over email and that's it.
So make sure you don't overlook that.
And then finally make sure you check the references that they provide, that's very, very important.
Wherever they've worked in the past, make sure you ask their previous employer to provide
some information and to look at all the previous professional and portfolio work that they've
done and check out their references and ask how they felt that they've worked with their
previous employer.
So those are my top tips for hiring a video editor.
Hopefully you can take these little tips away and go find yourself a perfect or near perfect
video editor.
Now I'm not going to say perfect but just jokingly there but I hope and I wish you all
the best with that.
Go out there, look for a video editor that suits you and you like their style and follow
these simple principles.
Thanks very much for watching.