We Hire People We've Never Met - Remote Recruitment Explained
How do you hire for a fully remote team without making costly mistakes? What surprises people who switch from office life to remote work? And how can you trust someone you've never met in person? Find out all about recruitment and onboarding in a remote-first company!
🎙️ Topics:
🎙️ Topics:
- Advantages and disadvantages of recruiting for a distributed team
- What we pay attention to when selecting candidates – key qualities and skills for working in a remote company
- Our recruitment process step by step
- Evaluating work and building trust with new remote team members
- "Culture shock" – how people with traditional office experience adapt to our remote team
- Trial period and onboarding of new employees
- Integration and building relationships in a remote team
📝 Show notes
- Chapter 23 of the book "No Office" by Michael about recruitment in a no-office company
- Why Nozbe has no office and how we work
- Nozbe team retreats
- A Glance at the Nozbe Work Culture: Yes, We Are Unicorns
- Chapter 23 of the book "No Office" by Michael about recruitment in a no-office company
- Why Nozbe has no office and how we work
- Nozbe team retreats
- A Glance at the Nozbe Work Culture: Yes, We Are Unicorns
🟣 Find Us
- No Office website: nooffice.fm
- Tweet us @nozbe
- Follow us on Instagram @nozbe
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- (00:00) - Intro
- (03:58) - Advantages and disadvantages of recruiting for a distributed team
- (12:38) - What we pay attention to when selecting candidates – key qualities and skills for working in a remote company
- (18:08) - Our recruitment process step by step
- (47:04) - Evaluating work and building trust with new remote team members
- (50:24) - "Culture shock" – how people with traditional office experience adapt to our remote team
- (52:08) - Trial period and onboarding of new employees
- (54:28) - Integration and building relationships in a remote team
- (55:44) - Summary and BONUS for listeners
Creators and Guests

Host
Magda
One of the Nozbe team "dinosaurs" - #NoOffice practitioner since 2013. Extravert, neurotic & vegetarian feminist with 189 imperfections.

Host
Michael Sliwinski
Leading @Nozbe #productivity app | Writing #NoOffice book on #iPadOnly | Blog: https://t.co/vRZY2YrzsE | Husband & father of 3. 🐘 Find me at https://t.co/hHsFpUHwle
