Best Practices for Conducting Successful Remote Interviews

The motivating phrase ‘the world is your oyster’ has never been truer!

Today, due to the new remote working trend, individuals are able to take advantage of many more offshore job opportunities without the stress of moving and re-settling. We also see larger teams spread over continents, all working from home, in a stress-free, cohesive manner.

This has boosted the need to conduct online or remote job interviews.

The best ways to conduct remote interviews

Here are some ways in which you can use some best practices for your remote interviewing process:

1. Give Adequate Company Information
   Prior to the online interviews, provide candidates with articles, blogs, employee profiles, client expectations with relation to your company to ensure he/she is well versed with the basics.
2. Gauge Candidate Skill-Sets With An Online Test
   Share a detailed online test with candidates, that helps you understand applicant skill sets before you interview. This will save you time during the actual interview process and allow you to ask more focused questions.
3. Use Smooth Communication Tools
   Basic remote interviews can be conducted via Zoom, Skype or Google Hangouts. For more technical ones, you may need additional platforms like a coding platform, whiteboard or screen sharing facility.
4. Keep The Communication Tone Friendly
   Make more of an effort to infuse the human touch as remote interviews can be a little daunting for some candidates. Since they are not in the same room as you, they are unable to gauge you and there is not enough time to get comfortable with the interviewer. So, make the candidate feel comfortable with a pleasing and relaxed tone.

Why outsourcing remote interview and recruitment is beneficial to you

The most profitable and effective way to ensure that your company is following the best practices for conducting remote interviews is by outsourcing to a professional HR Partner.

HR Process outsourcing benefits include:

• Core Business Activities: The freedom to dedicate your time and attention to day-to-day business activities.
• Professional Image Management: Every candidate that your company interacts with, takes away an impression about you. To make the right impression, you can depend on a professional recruitment outsourcing company that has the time and resources to do the job well.
• Long-Term Savings: Scanning the globe for future employees is an expensive and time consuming job which recruitment agencies are equipped to handle. Over the long run, you will save tons of time, money and energy on a job meant for a recruitment process outsourcing company.

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