Vince c.

Interviewed 50+ individuals, and recruited up to 30 people over a period of 8 months: 60% dropped out/ ghosted you within 2 weeks of employment with some lame excuses or no excuses. 30% of them either milk you (whilst they have a full time job), display poor punctuality, or wanted higher pay after 2 weeks.

For those UK, US, AUS employers, most applicants on OnlineJobs either have a full time job, or they have so much going on in Life (kids, other moonlighting business, house chores) that, your job is just another stepping stone for additional income. Very few you will find that they are genuinely keen for the job.

If your job doesn't require consistent and on time attendance, commitment, by all means, have them. But if you are looking for sincerity, committed people with good ethics, the experience will be similar to finding a needle in the haystack.

Overall, Out of 30 we've recruited.
1 stayed for 2.5 years, the only positive. (there is hope)
1 stayed for 1.5 year (6 months was her best, 6 months later, signs of productivity declined and plenty of lips service, the remaining 5 months emotional meltdown due to their personal reasons)
1 stayed 2 months. (low skills, and wanted more pay)
The remaining recruits, stayed less than 4 weeks. Either disappeared from thin air, or we terminated their role due to too much home distractions, incompetency (discovered during 1st 3 weeks).
But imagine the time of interview, recruitment, and the paid training down the drain, of the remaining 27. Wasted.

Data stem from late 2018-mid 2019. I hope the management have improved the culture on that site.

Wanted to re-use their service again, but after reading the negative reviews again reminded me of my past experiences.

If management is reading this, you need to work on embedding the following features so that Employer like us don't get disappointed.
- Employer Review (similar to Upwork)
- and other features that Upwork has.
Also.
Get rid of those non-serious, non-committed applicants in your database.