Remote Hiring Process: A Step by Step Guide
It’s hiring season once again which means it’s important to create a streamlined remote hiring process to get those hard to catch perfect candidates. We went into this briefly in our 10 Best Practices for Remote Recruiters. The four key steps we dive into are: Identifying your ideal candidate. Using talent assessments. The interview pipeline. […]
Nail Your Candidate Profile With Marketing Lessons
Did you know that Product and Marketing professionals spend hours defining who their buyer persona is? They do this in order to understand where to find them and how to communicate more effectively. Basically, marketers have been using data to better target their audiences for decades. Doing market research, selecting customer segments, building customer experience […]
How to build and manage strong candidate relationships
We all know developers get lots of job offers on a daily basis, but not all of those openings are aligned with candidates’ experience and backgrounds. This is one of the main reasons why developers and tech recruiters have a “tense” relationship. You can find many jokes about a tech person and a recruiter interacting, […]
Remote Hiring: 10 Best Practices for Recruiters
We all know that the world of work has changed. For many companies it’s been remote for a while and for some it’s staying that way. So what are the best practices for remote hiring? It’s important that every company has a structure when it comes to remote hiring. For in-person recruiting and hiring, seasoned […]
Communication in Virtual Recruiting: What is a red flag?
Based on a Monster Survey, after the COVID peak, almost 95% of workers are thinking of changing jobs. So how has virtual recruiting changed? And would must recruiters consider to succeed in virtual recruiting? One of the key aspects is understanding and using virtual communication. For a very long time candidates have been under a […]
Time Flexibility Guide: Flexitime and Condensed Work Weeks
The increasing demand for flexible work arrangements doesn’t only mean location flexibility, it also means that the conventional 9-5 workday is a thing of the past. Of course, this includes working hours becoming more flexible. But it can also mean some companies are shortening or even removing entire workdays from employees’ schedules. How does this […]
Recruiting for flexible positions: 10 Key Practices for HR & Talent Acquisition
As we all know, 2020 rocketed forward flexible work setups as we could have never imagined before. Some companies have completely moved to remote first environments whilst others choose the best of both worlds in hybrid setups. Talent acquisition teams face a big challenge in adapting these transitions into long term strategies. Harvard Business Review […]
How to Work Flexibly Post-Pandemic: Your Guide to Partial Telecommuting
With the many types of flexible work arrangements emerging, the ways of working are changing. It can get confusing to understand their differences, unique advantages and challenges. In this article, we focus on partial telecommuting, also called partial remote work. From an employee’s perspective, this can either mean you work from an office location some […]
Flexible Work Arrangements: What you need to know
There are a lot of different types of flexible work arrangements (FWA) out there. From full work-from-anywhere to partial remote work and condensed work weeks, employees have many options. Even more so now many job seekers consider remote work or a FWA a prerequisite when applying to a new position. It’s important to know what […]
Top 6 strategies to attract talent you want to hire for your distributed team
According to a recent report by Buffer, 94% of professionals who started working remotely as a result of the pandemic, would like to continue working remotely, at least some of the time for the rest of their career. This number jumps at 99% for the people who were remote workers prior to COVID-19. This means […]
Closing the Gender Gap with Flexible Work
Before the pandemic flexible work wasn’t top of the priority list for most companies. There simply wasn’t an urgent need for it. Since March 2020 a large majority of office workers had to work from home and they proved to do so productively. With post-pandemic life on the horizon, a recent survey found promising results. […]
Flexible Work Arrangements – The Future of Remote Working?
When the world was hit by the pandemic, co-located companies had to adapt to alternate ways of working that included shutting down offices and forcing employees work from home. While this isn’t the distributed work we used to know before 2020, it gave many people the opportunity to prove their abilities to work remotely. Looking […]