We're publishing State of Remote Work 2021 & need your help in filling a 2-min survey 🙌
Happy new year to you. 2021 is a year full of fresh opportunity. We recently launched TeamKit to help managers build and run happy remote teams. I wanted to share one of the most thought-provoking questions on our 2021 Remote Hiring Survey for managers:
"If we could wave a magic wand to make your remote hiring process better in some way – what would that be?"
Answers we received so far include...
🔎 identify candidates well-suited to remote working
📺 improve the interview experience
🎣 make it easier to track and request interviewer feedback
📢 help candidates track progress
🌎 make screening process more inclusive
⚖️ reduce interviewer bias
What is your answer? It only takes 3 minutes to fill out our survey at https://www.teamkit.ai/2021-remote-hiring-survey and I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Best,
Joe
Completed the survey, Joe.
As Hrishikesh pointed out, the challenge is to determine whether the candidates are suitable for remote work. I have come across a few questionnaires that help to identify such candidates but we haven't yet given it try.
Mark Walter
Remote Work Experience
I have worked remotely for 5+ years now.
Thanks for doing that, Mark.
Joe Taylor
Remote Work Experience
I am cofounder of Touchbase.team, making virtual team catch-ups/meetings more productive and faster. Previously I ran a globally distributed team at Cisco investigating the future of work for customers.
Done Joe - filled the survey. For me, if you could wave a magic, I would like to have candidates who would do well in a remote role quickly and at the front of the line :)
Congrats on building TeamKit!
Hrishikesh Pardeshi
Remote Work Experience
I have worked remotely on and off. For some time, back in 2014, I was freelancing and taking up remote projects. During the first half of 2019, I was working as a remote co-founder.
Thanks for filling out, Hrishikesh, really appreciate your time. Yeah, knowing that candidates are well suited to thrive remotely is something that keeps coming up from managers. I also wonder, though, if those candidates who are not remote-suited could be educated/trained to work well?
Joe Taylor
Remote Work Experience
I am cofounder of Touchbase.team, making virtual team catch-ups/meetings more productive and faster. Previously I ran a globally distributed team at Cisco investigating the future of work for customers.
Great point, Joe. I feel they can be trained and a way I can think of is to map a mentor & have them work in the same city for the inital weeks/months. Just that it's too much hassle for a small team or startup to plan & execute this on their own.
In fact, taking a step back, it's even tough to judge whether a candidate would do in a remote role through just an interview process. We use proxies like whether they have taken initiatives during college or how well they write but all of this is not fool-proof. Just last Saturday, we discussed that a short trial of 2-3 weeks may be the best way to judge if a candidate does well remotely.
Hrishikesh Pardeshi
Remote Work Experience
I have worked remotely on and off. For some time, back in 2014, I was freelancing and taking up remote projects. During the first half of 2019, I was working as a remote co-founder.