Digital Domination Series: Featuring Liam Martin & his Presentation on How to Build a Remote Team
Liam Martin is the CoFounder of staff.com and timedoctor.com. The companies have 40+ employees in 9 different countries and specialize in remote long term employee management
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Presentation: How To Build A Remote Team: Finding People so you can save time, energy, and money
Big Promise: You will learn how to find and hire remote staff to build your business.
Three Major Issues in Remote Work
-Finding People
-Managing People
-Paying People
Finding People
Figure out what you’re looking for
-Task Work -mechanical turk, fiverr
-Project Work -odesk, Elance
-Long term Work -staff.com, linkedin
Define Your Needs
-4 main areas – South East Asia, India, North America
-Job Description is less about finding people & more about filtering people out
Interview Process
-3 qualities to look for- action taken, reliability, skill level
-Make a Test that tests these 3 qualities
-Always hire more than one person to start
Trial Stage
Implement ‘Real World Interviewing’ so you can start to understand how your candidates act
Meet with them each day in the beginning, track their productivity and compare metrics
Background:
After graduating with masters in Sociology from McGill University, Liam opened a small tutoring company which grew to over 100 employees, he consults on outsourcing and process design and is now working as a co-founder at www.staff.com, an elite remote working network where employers can find full time employees at a fraction of brick and mortar employees.
Liam has over 10 years experience in remote team management, focusing on how to make teams work more efficiently online. He’s managed large teams across 9 different countries and is passionate about understanding how online collaboration happens
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