Global hiring is changing faster than most teams can keep up. In this episode, Remote's Senior Director of Onboarding & Business Operations, Noelle Pittock, shares how her team screens 35,000+ applicants a month all while staying human.

On this week’s episode, you'll learn

• Why hiring only within commuting distance quietly kills your talent strategy
• How to turn company values into real behaviors in a fully remote workforce
• What "CV bias" looks like-and how Remote is designing around it
• How agentic and generative AI can open up equity in early-stage screening
• The top skills and trends Remote is watching for HR leaders heading into 2026

👓 About the guest

Noelle Pittock is the Senior Director of Onboarding and Business Operations at Remote, where she leads a global team of 100+ specialists across EMEA and APAC. With a background in B2B and content marketing, she brings a uniquely creative lens to operations, overseeing Remote's employer of record division and helping companies onboard and pay global talent quickly, compliantly, and with a standout service experience.

📌 About Remote

Remote is a global HR company that helps businesses hire, manage, and pay talent anywhere in the world-compliantly and seamlessly. From employer-of-record services to global payroll and benefits, Remote gives teams the infrastructure to scale across borders with confidence.

📄 About Looks Good on Paper / Willo

Looks Good on Paper is your weekly source for hot takes from modern talent leaders, recruiters, and powered by Willo, the async video platform helping teams hire faster-and more thoughtfully - at scale.

⏱ Chapters

00:16 - Welcome to Looks Good on Paper & intro to Noelle

00:25 - What Remote does & Noelle's role leading 100+ global specialists

01:49 - The biggest hiring mistake: only hiring within office radius

02:40 - Flexibility, talent shortages & why local hiring is failing (Remote data)

04:16 - Turning values into real behaviors on global remote teams

05:32 - Remote's public handbook & cultural infrastructure

06:38 - Values that evolve as your company grows

07:19 - Hidden leadership bias: cloning your top performer's CV

08:39 - Why CVs don't predict success & how Remote hires differently

09:43 - "We're already kind of CV-free": 35,000 applications a month

10:39 - Using agentic & generative AI to open up equity in screening

11:43 - Ditching "3-5 years experience" in job descriptions

12:48 - Making hiring criteria more progressive and candidate-friendly

13:30 - Are we missing great people with AI filters?

14:42 - Hiring trends for 2026: generalists, global flexibility & automation

15:52 - Cultural competency as a hiring superpower

16:24 - Final thoughts & closing on the future of work

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Show Resources

• Willo: willo.video - The most cost-effective way to screen candidates at scale. Interview candidates anywhere & at any time
• CV Free Toolkit: cvfree.me/join - Break up with the CV and get everything you need to modernize your hiring approach with skills-based assessments
• Anita Chauhan: linkedin.com/in/anitachauhan - Connect with the host