How to Hire Remote Workers in a Pandemic
Employing a virtual team not only saves companies in overhead costs, it also opens up their talent pool on a global scale. Businesses can benefit from hiring remote workers and reaping the rewards of an always-online customer service team (thanks to timezones) and a results-focused workforce. However, before getting an awesome remote team in place, HR managers must make sure they have the recruitment basics down.
Hiring someone for a remote position is quite different from hiring for a co-located job. For one, you have a different priority of skillsets. Every remote worker must be self-motivated and organized, since they won’t have a manager constantly present. They should be experts at online communication and well-equipped to do their jobs, since the company isn’t providing an office space and needed hardware. Also, remote workers should be great problem solvers to avoid long delays from having to wait for approval from managers in different timezones. Recruiters must learn how to find and test these important skills virtually before investing time and money to bring a virtual team member onboard.
To help with this process, Hubstaff has put together an infographic with hiring strategies of successful remote companies around the world, and a few different interview questions to ask remote employees.
How to Interview Remote Workers – An infographic by Hubstaff.com
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