Wellfound makes it easier than ever before to hire & get hired remotely

The pandemic has accelerated a new era of work: one where more people are going remote than ever before, and in the process, are discovering that their physical location doesn’t have to determine their professional opportunities.

At Wellfound, we’re proud to have already helped facilitate more remote hires than any other startup job site. We’re now doubling down on remote work through REMOTE by Wellfound, a suite of new & improved tools that make it easier than ever before for companies and remote candidates, including those who live outside of the US, to connect. They allow companies and job-seekers to:

Showcase & search by remote work preferences

• Candidates can share what kind of remote work culture they want, alongside timezone preferences, and more

• Companies can search for remote candidates based on timezones and willingness to work US hours in addition to skills and experience

Use engineering & video assessments to showcase or evaluate skills across borders

• Engineering candidates can take assessments for frontend, backend, iOS, Android, and more and choose to display their top scores on their profile for recruiters to see
• Any candidate can add a “video resume” to their profile — a great way to put a face to a name!
• Recruiters can see and search by skill assessments from candidates

Find the best remote opportunities & talent around the world through featured candidates

• Candidates can apply to have their profiles featured in a curated list sent directly to companies that are hiring remotely
• Companies receive a weekly list of remote candidates from around the world vetted based on skills, level of experience, English proficiency, and more

Hire & get hired from anywhere through our new partnerships with Deel, Panther, and Remote

• Candidates can search and apply for international jobs without worrying about sponsorships or visas — simply filter by remote jobs hiring in your area
• Coming soon Companies can easily hire, pay and manage employees in more than 150 countries through our new partnerships with Panther, Deel, & Remote

Together, these new tools make it easy to find the perfect match -- whether it’s locally, internationally, or remote.

Employers can source from 8 million startup-ready candidates, reach out to potential hires, manage applications, track the progress of candidates across multiple roles, and even set up payroll for international candidates with a click of a button. Candidates can find remote opportunities at US startups easier than ever before through a customized profile that helps them attract job offers that meet their specific skill sets and preferences.

The market for talent has never been tighter

In 2021, global venture funding shattered the previous record, which was set in 2020, by more than $300B. Thousands of new startups were formed. At the same time, 4.3 million Americans quit their jobs in December alone as part of The Great Resignation, leading to a total of 10.9 million job openings and the fastest wage growth in 20 years.

The result? One of the most competitive hiring markets in decades, which has seen startups that are flush with cash but struggling to hire. At Wellfound, we’ve seen the average number of offers per candidate increase by 5-10% in recent months and salaries for in-demand roles like software engineers tick up by up to 12% over the course of 2021.

“Tech talent has always been hard to hire, but what we’re seeing right now is without precedent. Candidates are getting record numbers of offers and can afford to be more selective than ever before,” said Wellfound CEO Amit Matani. “This is why it makes sense for companies to expand their hiring efforts beyond the US. From Amsterdam to Argentina, there are so many highly qualified tech workers out there, and our new remote hiring toolkit makes it as easy to find and hire them without jumping through a lot of the traditional hoops.”

Wellfound is growing as a hub for international tech talent

More and more highly skilled candidates from outside of the US are turning to Wellfound for their job search, providing a rich pool of talent for companies looking to hire. In fact, in the last year alone, more than 400,000 international job seekers were active on the platform.

Digging into the data sheds insight on some emerging centers of tech talent. While many of the usual suspects topped the list of countries with the greatest number of applicants, there were some notable new trends. Poland continued to establish itself as a talent hub, topping the list of countries with the greatest growth in applicants and coming in at number five on the list of year-over-year growth in interest from US-based recruiters. Interest in Brazilian candidates exploded with a growth of nearly 300%, likely due in equal parts to the country’s reputation as a center of engineering excellence and because of its proximity to US time zones.

The countries with the highest number of applicants were India, Canada, the UK, Nigeria, and Pakistan, while those with the greatest year-over-year growth in the number of applicants were Poland (+69%), Vietnam (+54%), Nigeria (+35%), Pakistan (+24%) and Argentina (+11%). Lastly, the countries with the greatest year-over-year growth in interest from US-based recruiters were Brazil (+264%), Spain (+68%), Canada (+57%), (Russia +39%), and Poland (+35%).

Opportunity shouldn’t be limited to where you live

US jobs, on average, pay 50% more and with the rise in remote work, international candidates can have global level opportunities right from their homes, wherever they live.

“Like many other immigrant families, my parents moved to the US for better economic opportunity but had to leave their friends and family behind in order to do so. Today they wouldn’t have to do that. They’d be able to afford the quality of life they moved to the US for back in India. That’s the world we’re in today, and it’s only growing from here,” said Matani.

Wellfound’s remote features are available for free to all job seekers, and companies have a mix of free and paid options. Learn more about remote features for job seekers and remote hiring tools for companies.

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