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Hire Global Talent Through an Employer of Record

The phrase ‘going global’ can feel a little intimidating at times. You hear it in interviews with leading CEOs and it’s thrown around a lot in how-to-grow-your-business seminars. With such accomplished voices using the term, it can be easy to fall into the trap of saying ‘that’s them, it’s not achievable for us’, when in reality, ‘going global’ takes only three simple steps.

  • Step 1

    Stop seeing borders as boundaries that can’t be crossed.

  • Step 2

    Bring in top talent from across the world.

  • Step 3

    Go for it – go global! Take on the world with a team from every corner of it.

It’s hard to express just how much difference hiring international employees can make to a company’s growth and success, after all, aren’t they just employees? But that approach will get you nowhere. The contributions made by truly spectacular staff will help push you towards your goals at rocket speed. All you need is help from an Employer of Record (like us) to make the process of international recruitment and HR as simple as the steps we’ve laid out above.

What is international recruitment?

Recruiting internationally means you’re no longer limited to the talent pool on your doorstep. Instead, you have the opportunity to view the skills and abilities of people across the whole, wide world, and bring the best to you.

That doesn’t have to mean physically either. You can hire international employees remotely, having them stay where they are, whether that’s a sunny beach in Costa Rica, a snowy-spot in Canada or the vibrant streets of South Korea, and commute online to make their valuable contributions to your workforce. You can even use their local knowledge to understand markets you may never have considered branching into before – with international recruitment, the world becomes your oyster before you even realise it. Isn’t that exciting? And that’s when we’ve barely even covered the best bits.

Benefits of hiring international employees

  • Global Talent

    Hiring internationally is the difference between picking from a swimming pool of talent, and an ocean of it. You know what they say – there’s plenty more fish in the sea, and they all have something exciting and unique to offer you and your company. Of course, a wider range of people vying to work for you brings its own challenges, but you’ll have our team on hand to help select the right person for the job.

  • iNCREASE diversity

    Having a diverse team of people all working together is one of the most exciting things about international hiring. The creativity that is generated from people of different backgrounds collaborating, bringing their own unique perspectives, ideas and inspirations is priceless. It might be exactly the creative spark you’re looking for.

  • save money

    Though not always the case, you can sometimes cut costs by hiring internationally from other countries. A generous salary in a country with lower cost of living, might equal to a below-average salary in your main country of operation – so it’s often the case that you can get even more specialised and qualified talent when looking in a different hiring market.

  • Local knowledge and expertise

    Having employees who speak a different language, or understand a local market on a personal level, can make that goal of ‘going global’ that little bit easier. They can share their understanding of their areas and help develop strategies for broadening the team and even setting up new branches abroad if the opportunity feels right.

  • Be able to keep employees through m&as

    Never underestimate the value of existing employees. If you’re going through an international merger or acquisition process, fight to keep the talent and, by extension, their accumulated knowledge of the ins and outs of everything they do, regardless of their location.

  • Make the most of steady expansion

    If you’re looking to build up a new office, branch, store or base in another country, but don’t have everything you need in place to hit that goal quite yet, you can start with the most important resource of all: people. Hire employees in the area you’re looking to expand into. We’ll look after them as temporary Employers of Record, then when your building is up, the desks are in, and the snack cupboard is filled, you can take over as a direct employer.

How to hire
international employees
through an eor

If you’ve already passed step one of going global by broadening your horizons and looking at hiring internationally as an opportunity rather than an impossibility, the next step is to bring them on board. That’s where we come in. 

At Peak PEO we offer what’s known as an Employer of Record (EoR) service. You can learn more about this and what it entails on our full EoR page, but when it comes to having an international workforce, the most important thing to know is that hiring through an EoR means that rather than you hiring your new employees directly, we can do it for you. That means everything to do with HR goes through us, from onboarding and contracts to payroll and benefits, saving you from the confusion that can sometimes come from hiring across borders. It’s HR outsourcing at its most extravagant.

whAT DOES AN INTERNATIONAL
RECRUITMENT OFFICER DO?

When hiring through an EoR like Peak PEO, and using our optional international recruitment service, you can sit back and let us do the work for you, all the way from finding the right candidate to setting them up and getting them ready to go.

Step 1: Let us know what you’re looking for

Firstly, we’ll have a chat with you about exactly what it is you’re looking for. Whether you need a technology specialist to round out your software development team, or a hands-on account lead who can take care of your clients from day one, we’ll get the word out and connect you to people who fit the bill.

We actually have connections with trusted recruiters from around the world who we use to help make this part of the process go as smoothly and as quickly as possible. That means that you could be welcoming your new perfect employee (from wherever they are in the world) into your team before you know it.

Step 2: Lets get them in, settled, and ready to go

Next up, we get into the nitty-gritty administration side of things to get your new global hire set up and settled in. Helping with the entire onboarding process, our team does everything from the vital background stuff like employee benefits and payroll, to the more subtle (but still important) extras like sharing advice on cultural practices you might want to adapt into your working processes to make them feel more welcome and comfortable from the off.

Step 3: You can take it from here (with a little help from your friends at Peak PEO)

While everything from this point on will be your brand new ‘business as usual’, your personal helper from the Peak PEO team will hang around to make sure you have everything you need from here on out. We won’t just disappear, and if at any point you have any questions you need our specialist help on, want to change your strategy, or hire even more international team members, you can rely on us. We mean it when we say we’re here for you.

Move beyond borders, grow your team and watch it thrive.

Become the global leader you’ve got the potential to be – we’ll help you get there.


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