E151 – Talent Trumps Location: How to Build A Great Remote Team for Your Business | with Merrily Orsini

Merrily Orsini is the Founder of CoreCubed, where she helps clients market and grow their home care and aging care services businesses. She is also a leader in the Help Choose Home initiative, the creator and host of the Help Choose Home Podcast and an overall thought leader in the home care industry. Merrily has built a great team for her own business, and now she’s sharing her tips with listeners so that they can do the same.

Merrily’s one big tip for hiring the best team possible is to hire based on talent rather than location. She says a hardworking, talented employee can work from anywhere. Many businesses have learned this as they’ve shifted to remote work during the pandemic, but CoreCubed has been hiring remotely for years.

Want to hire a great remote team for your own business? Listen on! In this episode, Merrily explains how to handle the hiring process remotely and shares tips for ensuring that someone is a great fit for your team.

In this episode:

• [1:48] Merrily tells us a bit about her background in at-home healthcare and breaks down the concept of her business, CoreCubed.
• [4:45] Merrily’s One Big Tip is to hire based on talent, not location – because the best people to work for you are not always the closest in proximity. 
• [7:59] So how do you hire someone you’ve never met? Merrily breaks down some tips for remote hiring: pay attention to talent, ethics, and skill set. 
• [10:24] Merrily explains how she measures talent. She also recommends hiring people who are willing to learn and add value to the company.