How to hire amazing offshore developers and other staff from $1k to
4k per month
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Great offshore developers
$1k is 43,000 pesos - PHP developer with several years experience is possible
$2,400 - wide range of people
$4k - even wider range in many countries
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Why hire remotely
Bangladesh the traffic is horrible. People want to work from home
The top level salaries in the country for a CTO are $2-4k
You can hire the best in the country for $2-4k
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Countries to hire from
Bangladesh
India/Pakistan
Philippines
Russia/ Eastern Europe
USA
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Example of one of my staff
No 12 in the world in a coding competition
Approached by Facebook
Working for us because we are willing to hire from home
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Where to find great people
Staff.com
oDesk
Elance and Freelancer
Coding competition sites
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Projects versus long term
Logo, simple website, simple research task - project based
Freelancer great, oDesk and Elance also good
Very good specifications
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Evaluating staff
Beginning of evaluation funnel - initial evaluation
Develop a specific test
Don’t interview everyone on the phone!
Simple test to initially screen
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Developing tests
Create your own specific test
Interviewstreet.com
Hire for a short project
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Key points in an interview
Demonstrate they have done it before (high salary person)
Demonstrate they are able to learn how to do new things (lower salary person)
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Trial period
Trial 2-3 people for 1-4 weeks
Better to hire 2 people and expect 1 not to work out
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Spent time in recruitment
LOTS of focus to find great people
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Managing the team
On-boarding process
Over-communicating
Skype chat rooms
Daily phone meetings 5-10 mins
Track attendance - Time Doctor
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Come together as a team!
Monthly games night
Vision and Purpose meeting
Chill zone Skype chat
Daily phone meetings 5-10 mins
Track attendance - Time Doctor
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Paying staff
Paypal
Payoneer
Western Union
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Tools and resourcesSkype
Google hangouts
Jing
TeamViewer or Join.me
Time Doctor
Asana
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