Remote Recruitment & Onboarding: Discover the Novative Employee Experience!
Since 1993, Novative has been constantly innovating to offer complete and personalized services to our clients. Novative’s success is also the success of its team which is growing every day and expanding across the world. Recruiting & onboarding remotely new recruits is a challenge that we have been able to meet and which has enabled us to create a multicultural team qualified in a wide range of fields. Find out more about how our team experienced remote recruitment & onboarding!
Remote Recruitment
The Challenges
🔺 An increasing number of job applicants requesting a more efficient organization
🔺 Remote job interviews
🔺 Finding the candidate with the expected skills for the position
🔺 Identifying candidates’ soft skills
Our Tips
✔️ Opt for an automated system to manage the recruitment process
✔️ Write an accurate job description to effectively target your future talent
✔️ Prepare a solid shortlisting process (interview process, pre-selection tests…)
✔️ Choose video format for interviews
✔️ Choose an easy-to-use platform for the job interviews
✔️ Prepare in advance the questions you wish to ask and allow the candidates enough time to ask questions about your company and the position.
Would you like to know more? Read our blogpost on remote recruitment!
Remote Onboarding
The Challenges
🔺 Making sure that the recruit is well integrated into the team
🔺 Ensuring that the new team member has a good understanding of the tools used and of how the company operates
🔺 Fostering the newcomer’s sense of belonging to the company
Our Tips
✔️ Before the start date, make sure you give all the necessary information to the new team member (schedules, access to collaborative software, documentation…)
✔️ On the start date, organize a video meeting to introduce the new talent to the team and explain how the company works as well as how to use the different tools.
✔️ Introduce the new teammate individually to the people they will be in contact with in the course of their mission in order to create a first contact.
✔️ Feel free to ask the new employee what they enjoyed and what they missed at the end of the day.
✔️ In the following weeks and months, be available & reactive if the new member has any requests while leaving them enough independence.
The Experience of the Novative Team
For several years now, Novative has been recruiting and onboarding new talents. Discover the experience of Julia, Natasha, Shawnessy and Valentine who each work in a different country while forming part of the same team!🗺️
Julia – Digital Marketing & Sales Assistant – Working From Germany 🇩🇪
« I think what I really appreciated in the job interviews I had with the Novative team was the kindness and warm atmosphere I straight away felt through the phone. It is even more important when recruiting remotely as the impact of body language and facial expressions is missing. »
« All-in-all I have my remote recruiting process as positive in my mind as it did not at all feel like a recruiting process like everybody imagined but like a normal conversation, where both parties are on the same level and understand their position. »
« For the Onboarding part, I was super happy to receive a work schedule with tasks and meetings before I even started my first day. It had lined out tasked that I was supposed to do each day. »
Shawnessy – Payroll Specialist – Working From the United-States 🇺🇸
« At the time of my initial talks with Novative the biggest challenge was the time difference. We would set up Skypes calls and communicate regularly by email. I agreed with my managers on an hourly amount and I would send Reconciliation Spreadsheets monthly. »
« Remote onboarding must be seamless and make the new employee feel part of the team even thought they are remote. »
« The main advantage of remote working is that the location is no longer a hindrance as the hiring pool has now increased. Companies can reduce their overhead in the reduction of space needed to house their employee’s. For employee’s it gives them more flexibility and a better work-life balance. An additional ripple effect is many people are no longer commuting to work which is great for the environment. »
Natasha – Marketing Manager – Working from the United-Kingdom 🇬🇧
« The remote interview with Novative took less time than a face-to-face interview as you eliminate any travel/time costs. I did have a face-to-face interview at the end of the process, this was nice to meet people in person. »
« I think the biggest challenge of remote recruiting is onboarding remotely. This process must be seamless and make the new employee feel part of the team even though they are remote and that’s what I felt immediately with Novative. »
« The biggest benefit of working remotely means you can work for international companies, as a candidate you have a bigger and more exciting pool of job opportunities. »
Valentine – Digital Marketing & Sales Assistant – Working from France 🇫🇷
« The recruitment process with Novative has been quite quick, and I do believe it’s an advantage. When you are looking for work, you appreciate knowing if it’s positive or not as soon as possible. I really enjoyed the discussions and first contact I had with my managers. »
« I was recruited from France and I have not yet had the opportunity to meet my colleagues in person, but I already have the feeling that I know them. What I liked about the onboarding with Novative is that I was introduced the first day to the right people and could ask for help whenever I needed it. »
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