Ep 46 - Hiring Remote Workers

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Siobhan McKeown, Director of People Operations at Human Made;

Kayla Boyer, Recruitment Lead at Shopify;

Meghan Gezo, HR/People Operations Specialist at Zapier.

Jeff Robbins facilitates a remote work roundtable discussion where we discuss how each company hires their distributed employees, overcoming communication challenges, and creating a productive (and happy) remote work environment.

Topics we discuss...

Hiring

• How do you hire remote workers?
• What qualities do you look for in remote workers?
• Where should remote workers look for work?
• How remote workers can get their application to the top
• Using videos in the remote job application process
• Building a good job applications pipeline
• Fielding incoming remote job applications
• Getting the whole company involved in the hiring process
• Gamified referral system for recruiting top talent

Communication

• How do you communicate across different time zones?
• What's the interviewing process like for remote job candidates?
• Ideas for remote work meetings
• Using trust batteries to measure trust on a remote team

Onboarding

• Helping employees who are new to remote work
• Coaching remote workers about work-life balance when your home is your office
• Creating a productive work environment and designing your own schedule
• Challenges of transitioning from a co-located position to working at a hybrid company

Company Culture

• How do you keep your remote workers connected?
• How do you make remote work 'work' at your companies?
• Bringing your whole self to work 
• Encouraging diversity in the workplace
• What do companywide retreats look like for distributed companies?
• Hackathons, remote work sprints, and team productivity
• Performance reviews and giving feedback at distributed companies
• Embracing and 'celebrating' failures at work
• ...and more!

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