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What is remote recruitment?

Hiring remote employees in a region unfamiliar to you is tough. Where do you start? Remote recruitment services help you to source the right talent in a geography unknown to you and your business. Black Piano is an expert provider of remote recruitment services, sourcing the very best individuals to fit your business needs. We access the Indian labour market, the single largest in the world. And great talent moves quickly. We pride ourselves on speed. We build remote teams fast, finding you the individual you need within 3 to 5 working days, delivering your business cost savings and improved flexibility.

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Why choose remote recruitment with Black Piano?

Cost
Access
Speed
Flexibility

Cost savings

The primary driver for most businesses in hiring remotely is cost saving. With Black Piano, you can expect to save between 50% to 70% versus local hiring. Our pricing is fully transparent, which means you’ll see exactly how much a candidate costs, with no up-front or hidden fees.

Access to huge talent pool

When you’re looking for the best talent, you need access to the largest single talent market. India is the biggest in the world, with over 1.4 billion people and 140 million English speakers. The population of India is educated, connected and experienced in working remotely, enabling super smooth onboarding.
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Hire quickly

The best talent moves quickly, often on the market only for a few weeks. Black Piano’s remote recruiters are expert in sourcing the very best individuals to fit your business needs. Candidates are ready to interview within 3 to 5 working days, and are onboarded within weeks.

Flex your team up and down

One of the advantages of global hiring is greater flexibility to ramp up and down to fit your business needs. The cost advantage of hiring remotely enables your business to hire full-time talent at a fraction of the cost of local hiring, and our flexible notice terms help you to move freely with demand.

We handle it all

We quickly find top talent for your business and employ them on your behalf, but they still work solely for you! We do all the extra admin that comes along with recruitment and employment, such as supplying laptops, managing payroll and handling HR responsibilities. We're pretty awesome.

Find

Our team of recruiters are deeply experienced in quickly finding you a selection of suitable candidates to fill your open roles.

Hire

We are the legal employer of your new hires. While they are employees of Black Piano, they work exclusively for you, like permanent staff.

Manage

You’re not left alone. We have a magic formula that keeps your hires happy. Partnering with us will help you manage a dedicated and motivated team.

Recruitment in 4 simple steps

Black Piano takes on full responsibility for recruitment and delivers you candidates in no time at all. Here's how our simple and speedy hiring process works...
Sourcing
Interview
Selection
Onboarding

Finding great candidates

Our remote recruiters first align with you on your role requirements, ensuring clarity on skills and experience required to fulfil your needs. Then our expert recruitment consultants get to work, utilising various channels to advertise and headhunt for the perfect candidate. We negotiate a fair and competitive salary with every candidate before putting forward to you, ensuring transparent pricing at all times.

Identifying the right skills

You select the candidates you wish to interview and tell us how you want to conduct the interview. This could be a video call, task-based or a pre-recorded set of questions. We then facilitate the process, coordinating diaries with all parties. We recommend a 2-step process where possible, keeping the duration between interviews as small as possible.

Making your choice

Once you’ve selected your chosen candidate, Black Piano makes an offer of permanent employment to the candidate. We hire remote talent dedicated to you and your business. We handle contracts and all the legal aspects of hiring, and we agree a start date with you and the candidate. Our remote recruiters work hard to keep the candidate warm during this period and we encourage you to meet regularly with the candidate on the run-up to the start date.

Ramp up to day one

A smooth onboarding requires great planning. You'll receive a thorough onboarding plan from Black Piano, helping you to prepare ahead of the candidate’s start date. On their first day with you, a member of our onboarding team will arrange a kick-off call and provide close support for two weeks. Don’t worry though, after this you’ll have our expert HR team to call on anytime.
Sourcing

Finding great candidates

Our remote recruiters first align with you on your role requirements, ensuring clarity on skills and experience required to fulfil your needs. Then our expert recruitment consultants get to work, utilising various channels to advertise and headhunt for the perfect candidate. We negotiate a fair and competitive salary with every candidate before putting forward to you, ensuring transparent pricing at all times.
Interview

Identifying the right skills

You select the candidates you wish to interview and tell us how you want to conduct the interview. This could be a video call, task-based or a pre-recorded set of questions. We then facilitate the process, coordinating diaries with all parties. We recommend a 2-step process where possible, keeping the duration between interviews as small as possible.
Selection

Making your choice

Once you’ve selected your chosen candidate, Black Piano makes an offer of permanent employment to the candidate. We hire remote talent dedicated to you and your business. We handle contracts and all the legal aspects of hiring, and we agree a start date with you and the candidate. Our remote recruiters work hard to keep the candidate warm during this period and we encourage you to meet regularly with the candidate on the run-up to the start date.
Onboarding

Ramp up to day one

A smooth onboarding requires great planning. You'll receive a thorough onboarding plan from Black Piano, helping you to prepare ahead of the candidate’s start date. On their first day with you, a member of our onboarding team will arrange a kick-off call and provide close support for two weeks. Don’t worry though, after this you’ll have our expert HR team to call on anytime.

Explore our pricing


We’re all about simple, transparent pricing. All employment compensation and overheads are covered. No up-front fees. No ‘starting’ fees. No hidden fees.
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Black Piano clients

Black Piano brings deep expertise in building and maintaining offshore teams with best-in-class people, processes and culture. Very quickly, they have become a fundamental part of our company and have influenced greatly our IT delivery milestones.

Fabiano, CEO

Parabellum RE

Working with Black Piano as our strategic resourcing partner has been an absolute game-changer for NFS Technology. When we embarked on the development of a completely new solution, we knew we needed a team with precisely the right skills to bring our vision to life. Black Piano stepped in seamlessly, expertly setting up a brand-new team tailored to our project's unique requirements.

Seraj, Senior Director Product

NFS Technology

With Black Piano, we have built an offshore team of dedicated and talented individuals who have completed multiple MVPs in exceptional time and quality. Black Piano deeply understand our needs, going above and beyond to connect us with the right candidates.

Charlie, Portfolio Manager

New Future Ventures

We started working with Black Piano only 6 months ago and in that time we’ve built a team of 23 performance marketing professionals. When I met Black Piano, I wanted to set up an offshore team, and I was thinking about going it alone. Give Jonathan a call, and let him and his team guide you through the process. The speed they work is exceptional, their pricing is fair and transparent, and the additional support we get is invaluable. We’re true partners!

Nathan, CEO

Make Me Local

The Black Piano partnership is reliable and efficient, and has resulted in our ability to deliver timeously to our clients. The best value in the relationship comes from the continual interaction with Jonathan and Abhishek. It is very easy to work with them as they are accommodating to our business needs during challenging situations. This has undoubtedly created a winning formula for success.

Steve, Operations Executive

Altron

Black Piano has been a game-changer for our company, leveraging their expertise and knowledge to source the best talent while saving us a significant amount of time on recruitment, interviewing, and management. Their services have been invaluable in helping us streamline our operations and achieve our business objectives.

Luis, Managing Director

Parabellum RE

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FAQs

How quickly can you help us find the right talent?

Our remote team recruitment process is very quick. We will have candidates ready for interview within 3 to 5 working days and onboarded with you within weeks.

Do you charge any upfront fees for recruitment?

There are no up-front recruitment fees with Black Piano. The cost of offshore recruitment is recovered monthly through our tiny management fee.

Can we interview the candidates before hiring?

Yes, you select the candidates you wish to interview and tell us how you want to conduct the interview. For virtual hiring, this could be a video call, task-based or a pre-recorded set of questions. We then facilitate the process, coordinating diaries with all parties. We recommend a 2-step process where possible, keeping the duration between interviews as small as possible.

What types of roles can you help us recruit for?

We hire a huge range of roles, from creative and marketing to technical and operations. Get a quick quote.

How can a business save costs with offshore recruitment?

Firstly, the cost of remote talent is 50% to 70% cheaper than local hiring. Secondly, we charge no up-front recruitment fees. The cost of recruitment is recovered monthly through our tiny management fee.

What happens if the hire doesn’t meet our expectations?

Although this doesn’t happen often, if your new hire isn’t suitable, you can release within 2 weeks during the probationary period.

Do you manage the payroll and HR for the remote employees?

Yes, we manage all employment overheads, including payroll, benefits, laptops and internet connectivity, as well as providing a comprehensive ongoing HR service.

Are there any hidden costs in your service?

Never. Our pricing is completely transparent. You only pay the cost of the individual plus our monthly management fee.

How is Black Piano different from a traditional recruitment agency?

We’re different because recruitment is only one part of our service. We cover recruitment, hiring and HR, a comprehensive talent management service. We also charge no up-front recruitment fees.

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