Since the pandemic started, many security industry firms have grown their use of remote hiring, but the reason wasn’t just because people were masked up and offices were closed. Firms found that getting skilled at remote hiring not only could ease the hiring process for out-of-the-area candidates and HR teams alike, but the good practices developed during the pandemic were still useful for when hiring remote workers, such as when adding sales and business development staff in new areas of the country away from field offices.
Some companies, like security design and managed services firm ZBeta, have gone fully remote in their workforce, and remote hiring is always the standard. Other companies, like Axis Communications, leverage remote, virtual interviews but put in-person interviews as part of the final stage of the hiring process. Integrators like SAGE Integration note that doing remote interviews has been helpful in a competitive hiring market, and particularly when considering out-of-the-region candidates.