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?
The ability to get things done, be self-motivating and driven are all important factors.
Candidates must treat the job seriously, like any other job. We emphasize that many times our staff actually works harder than people that go into…
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…
How do you conduct interviews for remote jobs?
Over the phone.
We communicate with the applicants through Skype. We like the personability of Skype calls to have a virtual meeting with the applicants.
Our candidates usually have a first-round interview with the hiring manager, a second round with team members who’d be working closely with him/her, and a…
How do you convey your remote culture in the recruiting process?
To start with, almost all of our interviews are done remotely, so that’s a pretty good tip-off about how we work. We talk about our…
When we start to talk about the digital lifestyle, the ability to work from anywhere in the world, and interacting with a multi-cultural group, candidates…
We try to have a pretty high bar for expectations from our team during the interview process.
What is your hiring process for remote workers?
We hire remote workers in much the same way as we would an on-site employee. The only additional steps that we take for remote employees…
The application process for remote workers occurs entirely online, and it concludes with a video interview. This is a bit different from the hiring process…
Most of our team has approached us directly to ask if we’ve been hiring. That’s one of the advantages of being a relatively well-known remote…
Do you use third party testing or evaluation services when hiring remote workers?
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…
We don’t. We use intuition, which may sound a bit “fly by the seat of our pants” like, but we’ve been very lucky so far…
Yes, we conduct both reference checks and background checks.
How do you conduct onboarding for remote workers?
We put a lot of love into our onboarding because it really sets the stage for what their experience will be like at Skillcrush. Aside…
We invite every new remotee to come to Cologne for the first week and up to a month for the onboarding. During that time we’ll…
Our recruiting platform is designed to allow anyone interested in working for us to self-promote and start the onboarding process on their own. There are…
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