How to Screen Bandit Sign Applicants

[Amanda Musumeci Deeter]

Hi everyone! I've purchased a bunch of bandit signs and made a Craigslist ad for two jobs; One to put out signs and another to put our "business card/flyer" on windshields in targeted parking lots/areas.

The Craigslist ad elicited a ton of responses. Now I'm wondering what the best approach is to find someone who is both trust-worthy and able to exercise common sense with regard to sign placement. I obviously cannot go out and route with each of the 50 individuals to see how they perform. Interviewing so many people for a sign placement gig seems inefficient.

Any advice on how to thin the field? Some ideas I thought of were to automatically eliminate people with out-of-area return numbers, people who seemed to not be as thorough in their responses, and maybe people who seemed to have fake names or fake resumes? 

I also thought I could maybe do some phone interviews, but what questions do you ask to someone to find out if they're qualified to stick a stake into the ground? "Do you feel like you're qualified?" "How motivated are you" lol. You get it.

Maybe I could hire 5 of them for a one weekend, and give them all small routes of 20-30 signs each. I can then go out and evaluate who performed the best?

Is all this a waste of time and I should just be giving any ol' person my $100's of dollars in signs?