Use Social Media to Hire Remote Staff and Monitor Productivity of Remote Workers

The use of social media to promote products and services is something companies worldwide have been doing for the longest time. Social media helps them reach out to a very wide audience besides helping show their brand in the best light. Not only is social media helping in marketing and promoting products and services but also recruiters are also using it to recruit people to run their businesses. In times when companies prefer remote employees more than in-house workers, recruiters can find no better option other than social media to hire remote staff and monitor productivity of remote workers.

What is social media recruiting and how can it be used to hire remote workers in India?

Social media recruiting allows a recruiter to connect directly with active as well as passive job seekers. Remote workers stationed at far away locations can be spoken to and monitored for productivity with the help of social media. Social media makes it possible to hold regular meetings with them. It becomes easy to conduct group meetings, discuss concerns, settle disputes and discuss the way forward as well. Video conferencing on social media channels is the most effective way to bring all parties to a project on the same dais and discuss matters as they are.

Given below are a few ways to use social media to hire remote staff and monitor productivity of remote workers:

• Interview Candidates Thoroughly: Social media helps recruiters hire remote staff by facilitating an interview process that can easily go on for hours at ease. Since both the recruiter and the interviewee are on social media, they hardly break a sweat in finalizing details and finding out whether things can work out or not. Not only do recruiters get to hire the best remote workers in India but also get to monitor the productivity of remote workers afterwards.

• Conduct Regular Video Conferences: Recruiters conduct one each time they hire remote workers in India. They should continue conducting them even after the staff has been hired and begin working for them to get regular updates on their work and progress made. Team meetings held online on various social media will keep everyone in the loop and ensure that overall productivity is kept a tab on. More importantly, it keeps the remote workers engaged and does not make him feel aloof which generally is the case because of which productivity often takes a hit and the remote worker might begin underperforming.

• Create a Community: This will keep everyone engaged and help build camaraderie within the team. Community building ensures that everyone gets a chance to socialize and share their thoughts on work and life in general, and generally such discussions often reveal the social side of people where they share their views on the projects they work on, in the process helping you understand how well those remote workers are performing. Community building also helps everyone get to know each other and pass on tips, which can be helpful to the remote worker in terms of performing better.

• Schedule Meetings with Them and With Clients: A remote worker is generally assigned a client to work with. Each time the client has an issue or has something very important to discuss, you can always take both the remote staffer and the client on a con call on social media and have their sides of the story narrated. This will help know where the remote worker stands in terms of performance and what is the next step of action, where he needs to be warned or put on a performance improvement plan or outrightly terminated.