Round 1 (1:1) — Preliminary Screening & Vibe Check

<aside> 💡 Who: HR Focus Team Member + Applicant Content: intro + background stories, what is ODALINE Goal: Vibe Check, Filter for minimum requirements for Round #2

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Minimum Requirements

• Hard Requirements
  • Strong interest in Marketing
  • Open for remote-work + Self organisation
• Soft Requirements
  • Critical consumption of Social Media (can formulate their own opinion about various platforms)
  • Proactive interest in content and brands (favorite format/brand and why?)
  • On top of new marketing developments & trends
  • “Drive” to stay on top of their game in work-relevant topics
  • Up for a challenge and to be pushed professionally

Red Flags

• Doesn’t know anything about ODALINE (what we do, projects, clients, philosophy, etc.)
• Experience doesn’t match profile

Green Flags

• Brings something new to the agency (skillset, experience, etc.)
• Fed up with the classical agency silos & systems and ready to disrupt
• Inspiring personality → learning something new from the talk
• Already knows people who work at ODALINE and actively follows them
• Open for remote (but not purely interested in this aspect)
• Passes the Vibe check
• Bonus: Entrepreneurial Background (either proactively pushing their own project during work or in their freetime)

Preparation — Talk #1

<aside> 💡 Assess the candidate, but also make sure they have a great experience and their concerns are addressed. Interviews can be awkward, so invest time to make sure the candidate feels good. It's the right thing to do and they will tell others about their experience.

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Background & Application-Check:

• LinkedIn: How active are they? What do they talk about?
• CV: Does their experience line up with what we are currently looking for?
• References: Depending on how important the position is, it can be helpful to get third-party opinions and input
• Concerns: Are their any concerns that need to be addressed in the first talk?

Talk #1

• (1) Casual Conversation + Agenda
• (2) Person (both interviewer & interviewee)
• (3) What is ODALINE? Why ODALINE?

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• (4) Discovery — Who is ____
  • Communication & Presentation Skills (1-2 q’s)
  • Eigenständigkeit / Selbstständigkeit — Autonomie (1-2 q’s)
  • Project Management Skills (1-2 q’s)
  • Role-related/Domain Knowledge (2-3 q’s)
  • Achievements & Strengths (3-4 q’s)
  • Person (3-4 q’s)
• (5) ODALINE-specific
• (5) Time for your open questions. (open-end)

Post-Talk #1

• Cross-Check with Requirements & Flags from Talk #1 (Link)
• Create a ‘summary’ to be shared within org. for Talk #2 & #3