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AV4 | ‘Self-Serve’ HR and Building a Remote-First Organisation | Jason Kan, Virtual Internships
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Getting your team to embrace the culture you want to build is challenging especially when they are remote and distributed across the world. How do you create structures and processes without making it heavy and bureaucratic?
In This Episode
- (02:00) How Jason joined Virtual Internships
- (05:11) Forming the early team
- (08:06) Being intentional about culture
- (12:31) Getting newcomers to embrace the company culture
- (17:01) Leveraging and developing junior hires to maximise their contribution
- (21:54) Delegating work the right way
- (25:47) Setting up a distributed team for success
- (28:52) Socialising new hires in a remote-first environment
- (31:39) Making HR a ‘self-serve’ process before building out the People function
- (34:03) Hiring the right people for the stage of business
- (36:08) Building transparency through the ‘VIP guide’ for job-seekers
- (37:34) Finding the right hires by understanding their MITs
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Our Guest
Jason Kan is COO for VI where he has helped design and scale the org from 3 to 130+ over the past 3 years. This has included building "minimal viable teams" in areas such as Host Companies, People Operations, Talent Acquisition, IT/Systems Management, Operations, and Demand Generation
Virtual Internships ("VI") is the number one platform for guaranteed internship placements. Interns can unlock a network of global opportunities with talent-seeking companies, gain real-world work experience and gain an unbeatable advantage in the working world.
Your Hosts
Hau Ly is the partner at Ascend Vietnam Ventures focused on portfolio success and has been in the VC space for six years.
Adrian Latortue is portfolio manager at 500 Startups Vietnam, prior to which he was a founder himself and an early member of the Uber team in Southeast Asia. He’s lived in Vietnam, working with Vietnamese startups for 12 years.
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