Sounds good except for every job opening, I get 40 resumes, interview 15 people and of those 5 look reasonable. Which of those 5 do I give the short term contract gig to? So you're back to the same problem.
> Which of those 5 do I give the short term contract gig to? So you're back to the same problem.
Ideally, all of them. It's not hard to find a couple one-off tasks that you'd like to see done in a day. Or could could proceed sequentially until you find one whose work you like.