So I'm asking the fediverse, what are the best resources for finding #freelancers to hire? How do you make sure someone is actually good at what they claim to be? Where do you find people in the middle-ground of "not completely clueless" and "charging corporate prices for the simplest of jobs"??

I keep hearing "word of mouth," but I only know a very small number of #contentCreators, and none of them are large enough to have any kind of team.

I've been trying off and on for several months now to figure out how to find/hire #freelancers in these categories (#videoEditor experienced with simple #vlogs, #webdev experienced with #wordpress and #ecommerce, #socialMediaManager, and #talentManager or w/e they're called), but the most I can figure out how to do is just post to those generic online "job boards," which has only ever gotten me flooded with barely-readable copypasta with no proof of past work.