Startup Jobs – Friday Roundup (22 jobs open now!)
Don't think you'll be wearing one of those in any of these jobs.
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What I don’t have are any technical chops when it comes to video. Really, you wouldn’t believe how bad some of the Three to Get Ready video interviews are that I haven’t posted yet. The content is fabulous. The tips from entrepreneurs are great. My technical skills suck.
But, since each one of these videos also mentions startup jobs open now, I don’t want to wait to get that info to you.
So here’s a list of the startup jobs that have come across my Skype in the last two weeks. Go get ‘em. Read more »
This Startup is Hiring A Few Good Men (Three to Get Ready video series)
The fourth in a series of interviews where entrepreneurs give their three top tips for getting a startup job, keeping a startup job, and knowing if it’s time to run screaming from your startup job.
The best part, most of these entrepreneurs are hiring now. Including this one!
Entrepreneur: Reece Pacheco
Company: Shelby.tv
Jobs: Full stack engineers for front-end development, or people with other skills if you’re motivated and interested in Shelby.tv (more on the jobs at minute 20:00)
You can’t handle the truth!
Or maybe you can. But fair warning, what you’re about to read may make you question everything you thought you knew about getting a job, resumes and fishing.
Yes, fishing.
Meet Reece Pacheco, co-founder and CEO of Shelby.tv. Smart guy, hot company. Or hot guy, smart company depending on how you look at it.
Reece and his team recently attended a recruiting event for their smart, hot company where they were approached by lots of people they’d put in the “brilliant” category. They met lots of people with the exact right technical skills Shelby is looking for.
But most of these people didn’t grab their attention.
Know who did grab their attention? The guy who sent in a picture of the big fish he’d just caught.
(For the time challenged all the juicy take-aways are summarized in the post.)
Want a Job? Date a Startup, but keep it real. (Three to Get Ready video series)
The third in the series of interviews where entrepreneurs give their top three tips for getting a startup job, keeping a startup job, and knowing if it’s time to run screaming from your startup job.
Yup, this entrepreneur is hiring now too.
Entrepreneur: Brandt Page
Company: Launch Leads
Jobs: market research assistants (5+ openings, perfect for current students), marketing director (more about the jobs at minute 13:00)
You know what I’m talking about. The profile picture looks great. The “I like” and “I look for” are spot on. You even both share an affinity for moonlit walks on the beach. And then you meet. And there definitely won’t be a second date.
According to Brandt Page, CEO and founder of Launch Leads, it’s the same with resumes.
Okay, Page didn’t say that exactly. But he did say that they’ve stopped relying on resumes in the hiring decision. Resumes can be just as misleading, and they never showcase the applicant’s personality.
And with startups, just like dates, personality rules. Personality and attitude. Launch Leads has got both in spades, and they’re looking to add to their team. So go ahead. Date ‘em. Who knows where it might go.
(For the time challenged all the juicy take-aways are summarized in the post.) Read more »
Change the World, Work for a Startup (Three to Get Ready video series)
The second in a series of interviews where entrepreneurs give their three top tips for getting a startup job, keeping a startup job, and knowing if it’s time to run screaming from your startup job.
The best part, almost all of these entrepreneurs are hiring now. Including this one!
Entrepreneur: Michael Brooks
Company: LifeKraze
Jobs: Developers, mobile developers (more about the jobs at minute 15:14)
A consistent Three to Get Ready theme is that entrepreneurs don’t want to hire people who are just looking for a job. Yes, I know; getting a job is the point of a job search, right? Well, with entrepreneurs it’s not.
With entrepreneurs a job isn’t a means to a paycheck it’s the route to changing the world. No, I’m not overstating. I’d say half of the entrepreneurs I’ve interviewed for this series have equated what they’re doing with changing the world.
And if you don’t get that, don’t apply for a job with them.
That sentiment is no less obvious in my interview with Michael Brooks, founder of LifeKraze. At only 24 years old, Brooks has already raised over a million dollars for his startup, and has ten people on staff. And in this fifteen-minute interview, Brooks mentions changing the world three times.
After talking with him for a few minutes, I think he just might be able to do it. Maybe it’s the Poindexter meets Clark Kent glasses? Who knows. But if you’re in the mood for a little world disruption, this entrepreneur is hiring now!
(For the time challenged all the juicy take-aways are summarized in the post.) Read more »
Three to Get Ready – Entrepreneurs tell you how to get the job now!
The first in a series of interviews where entrepreneurs give their three top tips for getting a startup job, keeping a startup job, and knowing if it’s time to run screaming from your startup job.
The best part, almost all of these entrepreneurs are hiring now!
Entrepreneur: Chuck Dietrich
Company: Sliderocket.com
Jobs: developers, quality engineers, product managers, marketing people, and sales people (more about the jobs at minute 16:45)
Chuck Dietrich has an enviable startup resume, but he doesn’t put on airs. What he does put on are costumes. Apparently, with some regularity.
As we started our interview, Chuck lamented the fact that his PR people asked him not wear a costume on camera. Yes, it was the Friday before Halloween, but Chuck explained that he didn’t need a holiday to break out a wig or outrageous outfit. He has a costume box at the ready at all times.
“You don’t have a costume box?” he asked with the same surprised tone I would expect if the question were “you don’t have running water?”
Ah, no. I don’t have a costume box.
What I do have is total respect for someone with his kind of background, that doesn’t take themselves too seriously. An attitude that seems to prevail at SlideRocket.
Which is very good news for you, since SlideRocket is hiring multiple positions, in multiple departments.
(For the time challenged all the juicy take-aways are summarized in the post.)
Read more »
To Succeed in Your Startup Job You Gotta Go All In
Want to work for a startup? You better bet with the house.
I gave you the number one tip for landing a startup job. Now let’s talk about the most important thing you can do to keep that startup job.
Once again, the tip is simple but incredibly effective. No reality TV this time, just some hard reality: the attitude that got you in the door won’t necessarily keep you there.
If you want to keep your startup job you’re going to have to prove that you want it. You’re going to have to prove that you’re invested.
What’s that you say? Isn’t everyone invested in their job? Ah, no. They may be invested in getting their paycheck or their next promotion, but that’s not what I’m talking about. And that’s not what your entrepreneur is looking for.
Your entrepreneur wants to know that you’re invested on a whole new level.
To keep your startup job, you’re going to have to prove that you can go all in.
Want to Work For a Startup? This one tip will get you the job
Want a job with this entrepreneur? It's easier than you think.
Want a job with a startup? All you have to do is nail the interview with the entrepreneur. No worries though; that’s the easy part. If you do this one thing.
Get that Startup Job
Don’t agonize over your skill set. Don’t stress over your references. Don’t sweat your resume. (Definitely don’t sweat your resume, there’s a very good chance it will never get read.)
The number one most important thing you can do to get a startup job is much easier than you think. Read more »
My Mistake at Ground Zero, and the Business Lesson Learned
No matter how long you looked, your brain simply could not process the scene.
I started writing a piece about the time I spent working at Ground Zero, but it was sounding very dark and whiney. It was all wrong. So instead of walking you through the story, I’m just going to get to the point.
The point is this; my time at Ground Zero is one of the biggest regrets of my life.
Not the time I spent there, I regret the time that I didn’t spend. The time I didn’t spend because I thought it was more important to go back to work. Read more »
Should You Intern With a Startup? He said, She said
That is neither Chris nor Lizzie. (Though who knows, Chris may want to claim that hair.)
I read two great blog posts yesterday, both written by people at the end of an internship with a startup. Both written by clever, articulate and motivated startup interns.
That’s where the similarities end.
These two bloggers had such polar opposite experiences with their startup internships that you’d think one was living in the bizarro-world of the other.
But both experiences offer great insight into the startup internship experience; what you can get out of it, and when you should run away from it. Read more »
FREE “Work for a Startup” eBook – tips, tools and tricks for success
I get great questions from readers, and they always fall into the same three categories;
- how to get a job with a startup,
- how to succeed in a job with a startup,
- how to know if it’s time to quit a startup.
So, I’ve taken the top five tips I give for each of these areas and put them in a free, downloadable ebook. Read more »
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