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?
Someone who is accustomed to having a huge part of their social life come from work can raise a red flag. We lean towards candidates…
Some experience of having worked remotely, or from home before is important. You don’t really know until you’ve done it, if you will be happy.…
People who are very focused and don’t need to be in a “group” environment to be motivated and work hard are ideal for remote work.…
How do you conduct interviews for remote jobs?
Our internal platform is a global hosted solution that not only handles scheduling, communication, and interviews, but also allows our remote workers to act as…
The process goes like this: a) we make an engaging job post that requires the applicant to answer specific questions, along with sending over a…
We use video conferencing for all of our interviews (Zoom), except for the final. [There’s an] initial screening interview to gauge culture fit and adequate…
How do you convey your remote culture in the recruiting process?
There is an emphasis on the diversity within the workforce, opportunities for travel and how home workers allow us to have coverage as an employer…
We explain it as both a benefit and a responsibility. There are a lot of great things that go along with it, and many people…
We build quite a lot of content about our remote culture with videos, photography, and sharing our processes. It’s made clear on our jobs page…
What is your hiring process for remote workers?
We hire for tasks rather than people. For the tasks, it has been fairly clear. And for important tasks we have, we outline the requirement…
We don’t do phone screens. We immediately want to do a Zoom video call and set the precedent of how we operate as a company.
We only hire remote workers, so we can’t speak to how this would be different from on-site hiring. A high-level overview looks like this: Application…
Do you use third party testing or evaluation services when hiring remote workers?
Every tech candidate has to complete a questionnaire including a code challenge. For (some) other positions we ask for completion of a case study. However,…
How do you conduct onboarding for remote workers?
Very deliberately. A big component is daily one-on-ones with a different team member to talk about the job, but more importantly, about the culture and…
For every new employee at Mavens, they are given a two-week hands-on training and orientation session where they are taught about the healthcare industry, Mavens’…
Onboarding is done through a series of online collaboration tools. We have a new hire orientation on the first day, just as we would if…
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