Building a Remote Team? The Rules Have Changed

lmost a decade ago, approximately 900,000 jobs from the U.S. were outsourced to Asian countries, with around half of them being IT and computer programming jobs. The reason behind this shift was the employers’ belief in offshore teams and how building a remote team could be the perfect solution to their sustainability woes.

Ten years and many market upheavals later, Uplers has seen and been a part of a paradigm shift in supplying talent to IT companies and digitally-motivated businesses. It has driven progressive offshoring experiences and helped over 7000+ companies hire remote workers, ultimately helping them establish it as the de facto standard for their talent acquisition processes. Thanks to the benefits of a wider intellectual capital, extensive scaling opportunities, and lower labor & infrastructure costs, remote hiring has arrived as a divine intervention for organizations, especially in the times of the pandemic, and is helping them combat its brunt with elan.

The growing popularity of remote teams has also introduced novel changes, affecting the market in an unprecedented manner. Here, we will take a look at four key changes in the remote hiring trend brought about by this shift, which will make hiring your offshore team easier.

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Four New Rules to Building a Remote Team

1. Seek Candidates With Remote Working Experience

“While remote-friendly employers will consider an applicant that has never worked remotely before, it’s always a good idea for an applicant that has some remote experience to highlight this in their resume as it may ‘give them a leg up.”

– Betsy Andrews, Career Coach, FlexJobs

Remote work experience does not diminish the value of the candidate’s experience. On the contrary, it enhances their professional aptitude because working remotely needs them to overcome the gaps created by the missing element of human connection. A few of these remote working skills are:

• Powerful collaboration skills
• Great communication skills
• Good time management skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Self-discipline
• Accountability

Seek candidates that have these skills as it is what makes them an invaluable asset because, unlike technical skills, people can’t just upskill or be trained in them readily. To find out if your desired pool of candidates possesses these traits, you can conduct pre-employment tests that evaluate their psychometrics to see if they have what it takes to succeed in their remote roles.

2. Customize Recruitment Strategies for the Long Term

Before you begin with any other aspect of the hiring process, it’s very important to understand and standardize your hiring strategies and requirements for the long term. Having a standard employee hiring and onboarding strategy not only gives you a crystal clear picture of your roadmap for the future, but it also establishes credibility in the minds of the candidates.

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Furthermore, having a standard onboarding process for your remote workers also makes for great employee experience, so much so that organizations that do have it see 50% better new-hire productivity. Therefore, it’s crucial to ask yourself what qualifications do you require from your potential employees, what kind of technical skills they should have, and what sort of mindset they should possess. Seeking the answers to these questions will help you customize your hiring requirements and narrow down on prospective resources.

3. Employ Help From Credible Outsourcing Agencies

Outsourcing agencies are companies that help you build a remote team for your business. With their vast talent pool, they ease the process of setting up critical infrastructure and sourcing potential candidates for you. More often than not, the roles and responsibilities of outsourcing agencies include:

• acquiring an office space
• setting up infrastructure
• conducting recruitment processes and hosting interviews
• defining the payroll of the candidates
• taking care of the taxation, local registrations, and legalities
• onboarding new hires
• employing HRs
• hiring administrative staff for daily duties

These outsourcing agencies work as your offshoring partners and help you build a remote team for you. Ideally, the outsourcing agencies you look for should have superlative expertise and proven track record of providing seamless offshoring experiences. These partners should be able to source the right professionals for your team, create a steady pipeline, and conduct rigorous technical and personality tests to ensure that they hire nothing but the best for you.

4. Search for Candidates Who Align With the Company’s Vision

Creating productive and successful relationships require a lot of effort. While you may employ the help of outsourcing agencies to build your remote team for you, it is equally important for you to stay invested throughout the process to ensure that your potential hires align with your company’s vision.

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This is especially important for medium-sized and large-sized organizations, with a report by Deloitte showing that 83% of decision-makers think that remote employees who are highly engaged and motivated contribute significantly to the company’s success. Furthermore, 94% of C-suite executives and 88% of employees believe that it helps build a healthy workplace culture that is infinitely crucial to business success.

After you have decided your medium for hiring remote workers, set down a recruiting framework that takes care of the following things to promote the right message and make it easier for you and potential hires to find common ground:

• Define candidate expectations
• Establish collaboration dynamics
• Have your team managers assess your candidates
• Determine a fit for values and culture

Digitally Remote Teams are the “New Normal”

The future is remote, and 2020 has given a glimpse into this reality. Businesses are looking for quick and instant end-to-end solutions for a range of functions from web designing to digital marketing.

If you wish to learn and implement the key takeaways from successful growth stories, you would need a digital service and talent provider that understands your needs. With over 7 years of experience in this field, Uplers has written the success stories for several ventures.

Are you ready to get on this list? Contact the experts at Uplers!