so first and foremost we are absolutely
looking for good human beings
Which quality do we start with? kind, kind
is super-important just being nice to
other people being empathetic is also
really really important, having self
respect as well as respect for other
people also very very important
personal accountability is huge from. My work
environment / company culture standpoint
one of our goals for the next three
years is to be the number one place to
work in Tijuana
hands down and I think that we're very
well on our way and a lot of that and I
think all the staff recognizes this is
that our ability to get to that goal is
in each person's hands alright so the
first step we put a job post up and
somebody will respond to the job post so
depending on the role we have different
qualifications for what we're looking
for so we go through their CV or their
resume however you call it and we look
at their experience and we look at their
qualities and if we feel like on paper
it's somebody who's presented themselves
well and they also have the raw skills
that we're looking for then we'll send
them an email and it's basically a
templated email that we send out to all
the candidates for that role asking them
I think it's like ten questions one of
those questions is show us three
examples of your work and in the end in
that email sequence we're basically
weeding out people who don't pay
attention so if they if we ask for three
things and they only send us back to
examples of their work we kick them out
because that's somebody who didn't pay
attention if they don't answer a
question if there's ten questions they
only answer nine
we keep that personality so we're
constantly looking to see how
detail-oriented there are they are so
then if they get to with that
then we'll schedule a phone interview
with that person and so usually our
administrative assistant / recruiting
manager will do that call with the
person it's like 15 minutes so it's a
very quick phone interview if they get
through that then we'll ask them to do
an online test
and so the online test is either so you
usually design or development related we
time them on that we give them 48 hours
to complete the test and we let them
know and they have to complete it within
48 hours and this is like we're looking
at this skills or also looking at their
time management and their ability to hit
deadlines because deadlines are so
unbelievably important that our company
so if they pass the test with the
minimum score that we're looking for
then we'll bring them in for an
in-person interview and that's well they
when they will meet with at least four
people and most of the time the final
interview in that four-person round is
with me once we do that if everybody
agrees that this is somebody that we
would that we liked we ask ourselves ask
every single person I say ask some two
questions I say is this somebody that
you would want on your team and
everybody has to agree yes and the
second question is is this somebody that
you would one day see yourself that you
would be comfortable working under then
you would be comfortable working for and
again everybody has to say yes but if we
all agree this is somebody that we love
that this is somebody that we would want
on our team of it's to somebody that one
day we could see ourselves working for
then we invite them to one last test and
we give them a live project to actually
work on so it would be something that's
similar to what they would do if they
were to become employed by our company
that's our very long very stringent
and difficult hiring process that we
created but the beauty is that the
people who end up working here that
every single criteria that we're looking
for in a person they're very
hard-working
they're very very caring people they're
nice they're good human beings they're
extremely talented technically and
they're they pay attention to detail
they hit deadlines and they take
personal responsibility for them for
their for their life in their future
now they care about the clients I mean
every person that we've hired I can't
even remember the last time that we
hired somebody as a developer or
designer that didn't work out but
everybody it was just there are amazing
people and the beauty of that is that
because we take so many steps to to weed
out people who aren't a good fit when we
do find that person who's a great fit
for our company they integrate into the
company really really quickly and that's
one of the things is when we talk to our
your staff and we kind of interview them
and see how they're doing they say like
I walk in here and it feels like I'm
home you know they say like everybody's
so nice everybody's so warm and
welcoming willing to help and it just
makes it you know it makes it so easy
for them to transition into the new
company which is great
