Need Help Hiring Virtually? We Have Tips For This 'New Normal'

The abrupt shift to working virtually has presented us with significant challenges across organizational strategy, internal communications, infrastructural logistics, and process flows. For MSPs—a business rooted in people and connections—the need to rely exclusively on virtual technologies to hire candidates can be a particularly difficult transition.

For some companies, virtual hiring may have already be integrated into their business strategies. For others, familiarizing themselves with virtual recruiting has been a new challenge. Whatever your reasons for dabbling in virtual hiring, it’s possible to hire the best talent. All you need is a stable internet connection. By having a virtual hiring process in place, you can even bring it into day-to-day practice when things go back to “normal.”

1. Make the most of technology

Significant manpower is needed to plan and execute hiring under normal circumstances, so let automation take on the heavy lifting. Automated notifications and reminders should be a standard feature of any virtual hiring drive you launch. If you’re expecting higher volumes of applications, consider using chatbots as virtual recruitment assistants. They can be available all day, every day, to answer your candidate’s questions.