Independence and conscientiousness, along with the ability to motivate oneself, handle social isolation and deal with problems of not only a technical nature - those are the essential qualities of employees who work remotely, regardless of their position and regardless of their company’s culture. But which steps need to be taken in order to prepare a strategy for recruiting employees who will work for you remotely? ERE.net offers the following advice:
- Spend enough time getting acquainted with the environment in which the relevant job will be performed. Clarify the job conditions, the prerequisites for success as well as the potential obstacles.
- Review the goals and contributions of your job positions to the company’s success. This will help you to reveal what needs to be required of employees who work remotely.
- Choose psychometric tools that will help you measure the candidates’ abilities in the context of your culture.
- Conduct your own empirical study to reveal the relationships between personality traits, skills, abilities and the key factors of success in the given position and culture.
- Based on the results of this study, define the characteristics that distinguish success from failure in the given job context.
- Prepare a plan for evaluating the performance of the pre-recruitment process vis-à-vis the goals and key business indicators every three to six months.
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