Hiring Remotely
140 companies answer 6 questions
In our Hiring Remotely section you'll learn how best in class remote companies use their remote status to recruit the top candidates in the world. Discover how you can increase your applicant pool and find and interview the best candidates remotely.
What traits do you look for in candidates for a remote job?
For this, I’d like to focus on one specific trait that I’m looking for. Proactivity. The job application process is built up in a way…
We look for people that are self-starters/have a high degree of independence, value continuous learning, and are receptive to feedback. If during the trial process…
We want candidates who are positive, really motivated, self-managed, able to work with minimal supervision, and show passion about WordPress and what they do. We…
How do you conduct interviews for remote jobs?
Depending on the role. With non-technical candidates, it’s a conventional process we suppose—we just talk to them and then talk to them some more to…
It depends heavily on the nature of the discipline we’re hiring for, but after collecting applications for the positions we post, we usually start screening…
We run 4 rounds of interviews for all of our candidates. Everything is coordinated through google Calendar and Google Hangouts. Some of the interviews are…
How do you convey your remote culture in the recruiting process?
We’re completely transparent about our company values and culture in everything we do, including our actual job listings. We don’t want anyone to have to…
We mention in our advertising that we are a virtual company and that it’s a remote-work job, but we dig deeply on this topic as…
We try to be as open and honest about the pros and cons of a remote workforce. We have each candidate speak with several team…
What is your hiring process for remote workers?
We only work remotely, so the process is the same for everyone. During the hiring process we include at least one face to face meeting.…
Our hiring process generally starts with some small “interview project” we ask candidates to complete related to the position. We hardly ever do traditional interviews…
Our approach to hiring remote workers has to be different from hiring on-site workers because not everyone is cut out to be a remote worker.…
Do you use third party testing or evaluation services when hiring remote workers?
We do 100% of the testing and evaluation process of hiring in-house. That said, we do use Workable to manage our application processes from start…
For certain key positions we utilize robust credential and background checks.
We design prescreen assessments for all candidates as part of the interview process using a 3rd party platform to host the forms. In addition, we…
How do you conduct onboarding for remote workers?
We’ve been making leaps and bounds here recently and I’d like to share the background to show how things can improve over the years. For…
We’ve done both in-person and remote onboarding. Which one we use with each new employee is based on location and availability.
They get all tools, instruction how we work, get to know our team and projects and they already are invited in our social slack channels…