Misen

Week 1 hiring recap / update for Director of Marketing / VP of Marketing: Insane amounts of talent in our funnel and the competition is real. I could hire any one of 10 candidates today (only 4 full days in) and Misen will do great. While our main focus is finding the best candidate for the role in the next 5 business days, I’m especially pleased with the positive responses (98%!) from my rejection emails. 348 applicants since 6/10 39 new 89 (25% of total) still in consideration  26  (22% of consideration) invited for 15 min chat 25 (96% of invited) completed 15 min interview 194 rejected For candidates: If you haven't heard from me yet, you will today or tomorrow, which is yes, Saturday. Many HR folks have told me over the years to schedule those replies for 9AM Monday. As a candidate, do you want to wait until the next business day or hear feedback as soon as it’s ready? Yep, me too. My team doesn’t get weekend emails from me, but candidates sure will. Next Steps: 1) Complete review of consideration candidates and invite those that pass to 15 min chats. 2) Review 15 min chats (I owe you all responses!) and move top candidates to a 30 min nerd-out session Monday - Wednesday. I’m traveling for work Tuesday - Thursday so this can only be when I’m at a desk. I believe interviewing anyone when not seated and focused is disrespectful. What we’ve done right: Review every application myself and respond personally to every applicant. There’s 2 wins here: 1) By reading every application myself, I’m confident we’re getting our selection process right. I know many applicants won’t agree with me - us marketers are a confident bunch - but our funnel is so packed with talent and it’s tough competition. 2) Out of 194 rejection emails I have sent, 113 replied back thanking me for the feedback and/or the quick response. 2 responses were negative but I never expect this to be 0. This is why we put in the time during hiring weeks. It’s what I would want as a candidate, it’s the right thing to do, and even though they didn’t get the job, we have 100+ more Misen fans now. What we could have done better: 1) Get back to candidates quicker. Hiring is unfortunately not the only critical thing on my plate this week, and these would look far better if that was the case.  ~25 got an answer in 24 hours ~50 got an answer in 48 hours 100% will get an answer in 6 days 2) I missed an interview! Not sure what happend but it never made it to my calendar. Not blaming you Ashby :) If you have feedback, let me have it! 😶

Hi LI fam. We’re adding several new positions in the coming months and I think it’s time we had a proper ATS. Considering Workable ($) and Greenhouse Software ($$$) again but are there any other solid ones out there we should demo? Our needs are below; comment with suggestions please. Must have: -Able to flex cost with use. May have 0-6 openings at a given time. -Easy integrations with SMS and email. Yes, we all use SMS for hiring and it shouldn’t be an afterthought. -3rd party distribution, but doesn’t everyone at this point? Nice to have: -Native Shopify integration. Please no subdomains or iframes. It’s 2024 folks. -Ability to pause / repost jobs and retain old applicant flow. When you’re opening up a job again to add to the team, why start from zero?