OSE Recruiting Handbook

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Phases

The initial phase is builders. Critical requirements are technical skill (ability to build) and a willingness to learn. It appears that without a strong drive to learn, collaborators will not reach leadership positions. Our core is developing leadership.

The Promise

In 4 years, you gain complete mastery of building a specific type of home, the Seed Eco-Home, and a design capacity that allows you to design and build any variation in size or shape from scratch. Everyone in the initial cohort is invited for this specific goal. Does this mean, by studying Hiring Statistics, that we can promise higher pay than Ivy League grads?

Expectations

  • Focus on communicating that we work on hard problems that take time to solve in order to manage expectations
  • Therefore, one must have a patient, long term outlook.

Rigorous Discipline in Recruiting

  • Go through good numbers of candidates - how many? 20?
  • Practical test - ship me a module, we pay shipping and materials upon receipt of undmaged product.
  • On-site interview, we subsidize travel for a weekend session where we work together.
  • Farmer work ethic, willingness to learn, giving nature (wants to help the world)

The Test

  • How do you tell if someone wants to be of service, or wants to save the world?
  • How do we make sure that the people we accept are lifelong learners?

Exit Opportunities

  • How do we make sure we can have a mutually beneficial exit in the first week?
  • in the first month?
  • In the first 3 months?
  • In the first year?

How to Eff it Up

  • People who form a clique agaist the leader.
  • Not enough candidates
  • Hiring too fast

How Exclusive Are WEee?

  • Very selective right now for people who are helpful

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