OSE Recruiting Handbook
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?
Dilemma
- Rigor of hiring vs needing many people
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 to society, and is not a fruitcake?
- How can you tell if someone really means it about saving the world? How do I mean it? How do I show it?
- They express themselves with confidence, as in, 'yes, let's do that'
- How do we make sure that the people we accept are lifelong learners?
- How do you tell grit? Any other way outside of farmer work ethic? FWE is easy to see, if not there, don't do it.
- How do I know that they will be fun to work with? Day of work with them?
Filtering Process
How do you tell that outside of the person being pleasant, excited, etc - they will stand up to challenges? Ie, that they have scruples and aren't fair weather friends?
- Grit: did they build something physically? Have I seen how they work physically - body awareness/agility/how they hold themselves, and after agility - craftsmanship, so they are not a Lenny Of Mice and Men.
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
Links
- Hiring Statistics
- SEH Revenue Model Development - top 2% pay discussion, only $67k.