The Benefits of Using FlexJobs to Recruit Remote Workers

The Benefits of Using FlexJobs to Recruit Remote Workers

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While the pandemic has changed how companies recruit and hire staff, along with where and how they work, the shift toward remote work isn’t new. Before the coronavirus, 4.9% of U.S. workers worked from home full-time, and nearly 53% of workers worked remotely at least half of the week.

Though people may eventually return to the office, many companies will likely utilize blended offices with some in-office and some remote work. If nothing else, the ability to work remotely in an emergency helps you maintain business continuity.

But, while your staff works at home during the pandemic, you may have also noticed that they are more productive now and think that staying remote is the right choice for your company.

Remaining a remote employer for the short or long term isn’t as simple as flipping a switch, though. You’ve got to change how you recruit and hire your staff to find applicants with the right remote skills. You may also need to change your interview techniques, your onboarding process, and maybe even shift your company culture.

Tackling all these remote work integration changes on your own and at once can seem overwhelming. But using FlexJobs to recruit remote workers can help you successfully attract virtual employees and make the transition to a successful distributed company.

Benefit From Our Experience

FlexJobs is the largest job platform in the world dedicated to remote and other types of flexible employment. For the past 13-plus years, we have worked with leading employers.

And as a fully remote and flexible company ourselves, we get remote work. We know how to build a remote work culture, what to look out for when you’re recruiting and hiring remote staff, and what it takes to make a remote company successful. When you sign up for a FlexJobs Employer Membership, you get a partner with more than 13 years of remote work expertise.

Here’s how our experience can help you:

  • Recruiting and hiring. Find candidates and fill your open positions more efficiently and effectively.
  • Employer branding. Enhance your brand and promote your company as a leader in workplace flexibility.
  • Consulting. Use our expertise on all things remote and flexible work.
  • Thought leadership and relationships. We’ll partner with you to help connect you with research, data, and thought leaders to guide your strategies and support your initiatives.

How FlexJobs Helps You Recruit Remote Workers

Using FlexJobs to recruit remote workers means helping you connect with the right remote talent quickly and efficiently to help save you time and money.

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Discover a better way to recruit remote talent

Founded in 2007, FlexJobs is the most experienced remote & hybrid hiring platform.

  • Unlimited job posts
  • Low, flat membership fee
  • Access top-level remote advice
  • Unlimited resume searches
  • Reach the right candidates
  • And so much more!

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Motivated Job Seekers

Only job seekers with a paid FlexJobs membership can access our active job postings (like yours!). While this might seem unusual and you may wonder why job seekers would pay to look at jobs, paid access to our job postings works to your recruitment advantage.

FlexJobs members are motivated. Of course, they want a new job. But, they know they want a remote job first and foremost.

They know they have to be self-motivated, responsible, and organized (among other things) to be a successful remote worker. These are exactly the traits you want from your remote staff. Instead of taking your chances on a general job board, why not narrow your remote recruitment efforts to those who are specifically seeking remote work?

Connect With Underutilized Workers

Speaking of our talent pool, using FlexJobs to recruit remote staff can help you connect with underutilized but talented groups of job seekers. We have a diverse candidate pool with job seekers of every experience level from entry to executive.

Connect with job seekers who are interested in and looking for part-time and freelance work. Or, focus your recruitment efforts on specialized but often overlooked groups like stay-at-home parents, military spouses, and digital nomads, just to name a few.

Members Get More

A FlexJobs Employer Membership not only lets you post an unlimited number of openings on our site, but monthly, quarterly, and yearly membership options make it easy for you to include FlexJobs as part of your recruiting budget. Employer Members can also take advantage of additional recruitment opportunities to help you build your talent pipeline.

Advertise Your Open Positions

For urgent job openings you need to fill fast, opt to feature those in our weekly newsletter. With over 2.5 million subscribers, you’ll connect with talented, motivated candidates quickly and easily.

And as an Employer Member, you can opt for Premium Placement of your job post and pin it to the top of a category or location page.

Recruit at a Virtual Job Fair

Recruit top talent at one of our virtual job fairs. Hire for specific positions, or use the job fair to fill your talent pipeline.

Virtual job fairs enable you to meet and recruit motivated job seekers from the comfort and safety of your home office. You’ll get a custom branded booth, and with our pre-event targeted marketing, interested job seekers will know you’re attending.

Integrate With Your ATS

We make it easy to recruit, screen, and manage your applicants. You can integrate your ATS with FlexJobs to help you post your open position as quickly as possible. FlexJobs accepts submissions from leading ATS and HR platforms like:

  • Greenhouse
  • ZipRecruiter
  • Breezy
  • JazzHR
  • Workday

Participate in Webinars

FlexJobs can host and feature your company in a hiring webinar. With a dedicated blog post about your webinar and promotion in our newsletter and on social media channels, you can reach a large volume of high-quality candidates to fill your candidate pipeline or hire for your open position.

Featured Blog Posts

We can feature your company on our blog to help promote your brand. Success Stories feature FlexJobs members that found a new job at your company, with many members explaining why they love it. And we create branded posts about your open positions and why job seekers should apply to your company.

Branded Company Page

As an employer member, you can add more to your company page. Add awards that show off what you can offer candidates (Forbes rankings, FlexJobs Top 100, Best Places to Work). We’ll also add a feed to all of the blog posts you’re featured in.

Media and Press Consulting

Our PR team knows the ins and outs of getting local and national press coverage. We’ve been featured on Good Morning America, CNBC, Fortune, NPR, BBC, and many other reputable outlets.

Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers)

Here are some common questions employers ask us, along with answers.

How long has FlexJobs been around?

FlexJobs was founded by experienced entrepreneur Sara Sutton in 2007. FlexJobs is the second employment job service Sutton has started, the first being JobDirect which she co-founded in 1995 and was sold to Korn|Ferry International in 2000. She is passionate about helping employers to find great candidates and helping people find great jobs, as well as improving the employment process as a whole.

What types of jobs can I hire for FlexJobs?

FlexJobs has candidates in more than 50 career categories, ranging from entry-level to executive, part-time to full-time, and freelance to employee. The top career categories on FlexJobs are typically in education, medical/health, sales, computer, web, and software development positions, but our job seekers’ interests really do span all professional career fields.

To get an idea of the depth and breadth of the type of jobs on our site, you can take a peek at the list we compile for job seekers to highlight the Most 100 Surprising Flexible Jobs.

What makes your site different?

Many things! FlexJobs has been the leader in the remote and flexible employment space since 2007. We know this market inside and out, and we have the testimonials and press to back it up. Over the years we have helped thousands of companies of all sizes, from across the US and the world, and in almost any industry with their remote and flexible recruiting, hiring, branding, and strategy.

What Do Employer Members Think?

Here’s what some satisfied Employer Members have to say about using FlexJobs to recruit remote workers:

We’ve found FlexJobs to be the ideal partner in our search for the right talent since their mission is very much in sync with our own. FlexJobs always surprised us with their ability to attract talent from subject areas and functions. FlexJobs is a regular and reliable source that helps us reach out to potential freelance editors across the globe. Since our first posting with FlexJobs, we have received a steady inflow of applications, even for niche requirements.

-Cactus Communications

The search for deeply and narrowly qualified technical talent can be difficult, even in a geography brimming with talent. Using FlexJobs, we found a software security specialist with finance sector experience who could review our architecture as well as our server, web service, and iOS code. He was a needle in a haystack, and we found him in days.

-Tomorrow

We have seen some great results from FlexJobs. We have the highest hiring percentage from FlexJobs compared to our other 20 postings. FlexJobs brings us the highest concentration of quality applicants.

-Wellbox

Start Recruiting Top Remote Talent With FlexJobs

A FlexJobs Employer Membership helps you position yourself as a smart employer who knows that flexible work is the future! Using FlexJobs to recruit remote workers helps you target your remote recruitment efforts, streamline your hiring process, and connects you with talented, well-qualified job seekers who want to work for you.

Want to learn more? Connect with a FlexJobs employer expert today!

 

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