So, I'm looking for an executive assistant, and I just want to put this out there. It's not a mad dash to hire someone. I'm not going to be hiring a recruiter. Yeah, I'm not going to be hiring a recruiter or running a strict process. I think it's the kind of thing where, when I find the right person, [00:00:30] it'll just happen. There are definitely hires that we make where we're running a process and we're shooting for a date. This hire is not like this.
Yeah, so what's the predicament that I'm in, that's leading me to want to make this hire? I think the reality is that we've decided to build our company in a specific [00:01:00] way. There's five of us, and I'm the only one who's not a full-time maker. There's three engineers, one front end developer slash graphic designer, who's our creative director, and then there's me, and I really want the rest of the team focused on building and making our product. [00:01:30] That means banking, HR stuff, interfacing with lawyers, sales, customer support. I mean, we share customer support, communication with the outside world, doing webinars, content marketing, marketing in general. Everything that's not related to building the product is falling [00:02:00] on me, and I need help.
The truth is that I don't really need help in quotes, and there's lots of people that will offer to help you. The truth is that I don't even have time for assistants, you know, for someone to assist me, because when someone's assisting you, it implies that you're doing it too, right? I've got two toddlers, and I'll say to them, " [00:02:30] Hey, I'm going to help you clean this room, or can you help me?" So I don't want someone to amplify what I'm doing. I want someone who truly is ... someone operates at a very high level, that can take entire functions of the business and just handle them with without [00:03:00] a ton of instructions. Right? I can just kind of describe the outcome I'm looking for, and they make it happen. They've got great judgment, and they can operate pretty independently, right?
This is not a great position for someone who wants to mirror me or shadow me. If someone wants to learn from me directly, [00:03:30] this isn't a good position for that. What I do know is that there's a lot of writing that needs to be done. It doesn't make sense to hire a full-time writer just yet, who's just going to write. There's a lot of processes and organization that needs to be created, but we don't have to have enough to do to just hire a full time process person.
Whoever we hire [00:04:00] needs to be a lover of new technology, new software. We have so much interesting technology that we use on so many fronts, security, organizational stuff, communication stuff. I think we do a lot of nonstandard things, and we're early adopters of communications technology. It can't be the thing where I'm like customer support for whoever's hired [00:04:30] on how this stuff works.
They also need to be passionate about business growth. I think the mistake that a lot of executive assistants make is that they think their job is to respond to everyone, and that's a real problem, right? Then you've just hired someone [00:05:00]
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