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Hiring in a distributed world


Everything you need to hire remotely

Greenhouse Recruiting for distributed hiring
We can help with distributed hiring, here’s how

Assess and engage candidates virtually
Include take-home assessments in your interview plans and learn how to conduct interactive interview sessions remotely.
- See how to set up take-home assessments
- Check out our Greenhouse testing solution integrations
- Discover how HackerRank uses testing to hire developers
- Include customized links and attachments in candidate email templates to give a realistic understanding of employee life at your company without needing to come to the office
- Automatically advance qualified candidates to a specific stage of the interview process based on configurable rules

Enable distributed interviews without skipping a beat
Teams need access to the best distributed hiring solutions even if they don’t have all the right technology in place.
- Build comprehensive interview kits with scorecards, focus attributes and custom questions to make the purpose of each interview clear and engaging for interviewers and candidates
- Choose from a number of video interviewing tools to integrate with, including SparkHire, Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams
- Manage all essential tasks with the Greenhouse mobile app, like completing scorecards on your phone during video interviews

Onboard new hires seamlessly, from anywhere
Without the human element of an in-person onboarding, ensuring new hires are set up to become productive and active employees quickly is key to retention and engagement.
- Design an engaging welcome experience with videos, photos and content to help simulate the warmth and energy that an in-person experience creates
- Assign tasks to keep onboarding stakeholders accountable and on track with their onboarding plans for new team members
- Gather feedback from new hires and check in on their onboarding experience – you can also pull reports to uncover areas to work on and make adjustments to keep improving regularly

Manage distributed hiring teams
Keep your teams on track no matter where they sit. Greenhouse supports a distributed hiring model through streamlined hiring notifications, and task management features that are unique to hiring team roles.
- Define roles and responsibilities and configure foundational workflows with job and offer approval processes, strategic hiring team configuration and email templates
- Facilitate distributed collaboration with a set of automated and unique notifications and tasks in each individual’s Greenhouse task management dashboard, via email and through our Slack integration

New hires get an onboarding buddy to guide them through questions to a better, more concrete onboarding experience.”
Darren Murph
Head of Remote


Strong internet is key. We interview in uninterrupted spaces as this experience defines a candidate's impression of our company.”
Elisa Campos
Lead Recruiter


Visibility let's teams communicate roadblocks in the hiring process. We review scorecards after an interview to align on next steps.”
Elizabeth Hassel
Director of Recruiting

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