EP 357: Demystifying remote workers and how they fit into agency culture with Noel Andrews

The talent we hire is often one of our greatest assets as agencies. Building our talent pool and promoting connectedness is integral to agency culture, and we spend a lot of time finding the perfect fit for our team. On one hand, you want a team that can come together, easily collaborate on tasks, and understands one another closely. On the other hand, casting a wider net can find you more people who are good at helping get specific jobs done independently. How do we marry these two ideas together?

Noel Andrews of Jobrack has some answers for us. This week, we’re talking with him about what he does best—helping agencies hire remote talent who want to be part of a team and can do great work at a lower cost. It’s truly a win-win, and we can all have this. In this episode, he will teach us how to build a remote team, how to create a positive agency culture, and what to look for when hiring remote workers.

Noel Andrews bought Jobrack in 2018 after 10 years of building and leading large teams in the corporate tech world. Since then, he has helped businesses all over the world hire more than 1,000 remote team members from Eastern Europe.

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What You Will Learn in This Episode:

• How do you make workers physically distant from one another feel like they’re part of the team?
• What do you need to do as an agency owner to hire remote workers successfully?
• Why you should reconsider doing a standard interview to vet remote talent and instead assess their skills directly
• How to take the stress out of hiring by leveraging the talent you already have in your agency
• Changing our thoughts around remote workers as only “task-doers”
• Why it’s essential for agency culture to make remote hires feel like they belong to the team
• How to manage and build a remote team across multiple time zones
• How to build agency culture and promote connectedness around remote teams
• How to set expectations and compensate your remote teams well for their skills