Let's Find a Remote Team

Nowadays, it is a trend - to hire freelancers. Enterprises understand it is more effective. Several freelancers, working as a remote outsourcing team, can make their clients delighted with a responsible relation to the work and a perfect result. 

However, all the benefits could be impossible to use if you don’t know how to find and hire a good team. 

Here are some useful tips for you!

Step 1 - Finding a remote team

You should take very serious to searching for the remote team.

You can find the team online on different remote services like Upwork, Youteam, Beesy.pro, Yeeply and so on. Or you can ask your friends or colleagues about the teams they have already worked with. No matter, what you choose, just be careful and attentive.

Besides, it would be good to check the experience of the team. Ask them about their work history, check their previous works and recalls from their previous clients. It'll help you to know the qualification of the team and, what is more, the team unity. In case the team doesn’t have experience, check their portfolio. It must be variable and “emblematic”.

Step 2 - Hiring process

After you found a suitable team, you ought to:

   1. Arrange a job interview

The best way of the job interview in this case is to meet all the team using the video meeting. This will give you an opportunity to see every member of the team and speak to each of them. Eye contact is important, don’t you agree? Ask the team all the necessary questions and estimate if it is really valuable for you and your company, if it is worth to be hired.

    2. Test

Give some test for the team which helps you to define these characteristics:

• Productivity
• Efficiency of communication between the members and between you and the team
• The quality of the made-up project
• The ability to meet the deadline
• General interest of the team in the work and the project (interested employees always do their best to attain ideals)

The test will assist you to know significant information about the group. It is like a tech job interview.

     3. Final interview

When you understand that exactly this team is what you need - arrange a final interview, where you’ll discuss the salary, the project, the expectations etc.

After all these mini-steps you are able to offer a job to the chosen remote outsourcing team!

But it is not the end…

Step 3 - Setting goals

Before starting the work process, you should set the goals as clear as possible. First and foremost - give a detailed plan of the project: the deadlines, your expectations of productivity and the work itself, and (the most significant) what result you would like to see in the end of your cooperation. 

Set priorities and build an effective communication between you and the team leader. Try to always be online as the team may have some questions. 

You ought to be both strict and fair as an employer. 

Step 4 - Trust

The last but not the least is trust. It is great if you work with the team not for the first time and have already built the trust-based relations (you are sure the team is honest towards you in every case). But if not, the rule sounds like “Trust but verify!”.

Check the working process:

To know, whether your team is really working hard during their working hours (according to the adjusted schedule), you can use special programs/apps like time trackers (such as Beesy.pro Time Tracker) . They show how much the remote worker really worked and even acknowledge this with screenshots. 

Step 5 - Final!

Well, step by step, action by action, now you CAN hire a really great remote team. You need just a few things:

• Attentiveness in choosing
• Serious approach
• Positive reinforcement

So, finding and hiring the outsourcing team might be quite challenging. But we tried to make it easier by showing and explaining useful tips. 

We wish you luck in this difficult task :)