Remote Readiness: Can your new hires work remotely?
When you start realising the great advantages of recruiting remotely there is a big chance you will have at least one or two remote workers in your team by 2022. If you want these people to be successful, you’ll have to change the way your team communicates, relates to each other and how they collaborate […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Talent assessments for remote job interviews
A positive candidate experience can help secure top talent and shape a company’s employer brand. One of the ways to create that impression is by using talent assessments. Adding the right assessments early in the recruitment process allows you to identify relevant candidates. This also gives candidates the chance to learn if they are the […]
Inclusive Recruitment: 5 Key Strategies for Remote Teams
With all that’s happening in the world today from being hit by a pandemic, addressing racism head-on, and introducing civil rights laws protecting LBGT workers in the US, companies must make sure they are inclusive in their recruitment. In addition to the obvious and indisputable ethical obligation to ensure equality, diversity, and inclusion, there is […]
Remote Offboarding: Key tips to terminate employees remotely
At a remote company, each step in an employee’s ‘lifecycle’ at the company holds equal importance. The lack of physical connection leads remote companies to care more for their employees. Especially at the time of departure, the lack of physical proximity requires remote companies to thoughtfully design the offboarding process. Research by Aberdeen found that […]
5 Key Tips for Onboarding Employees Remotely
We’ve established in the past that remote hiring is different. The dynamics of successfully hiring the right talent require efforts that involve writing a succinct job description and acing every aspect that showcases your brand. Another key aspect of hiring remotely is onboarding your new hires without seeing them face to face. With the COVID-19 […]