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It was the end of May 2016, when we realized we could not put it off any longer. Everybody took their place, and we started the meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe have to recruit new drawing artists! I can\u2019t do it by myself any longer! We won\u2019t manage when the new projects come\u2026!\u201d Klaudia said nervously.<\/span><\/p>\n Micha\u0142 and I nodded our heads. The discussion began.<\/span><\/p>\n Well, maybe a job offer on the website? Maybe a movie? But how long will it take? Do we even know how to do this? I remember that I must have some materials on recruitment from college\u2026 And where will we find candidates? And when will Klaudia do this, as she is so swamped with work now? Remember that in a moment, we are all taking our vacation. And next week there\u2019s a conference!<\/span><\/p>\n No one was the first to come out with the topic. We all understood well how tedious and time-consuming that process is. Especially when you\u2019re looking for candidates in the creative business. We were worried we won\u2019t even find enough candidates. But then, we didn\u2019t have any way out.<\/span><\/p>\n I sat at my computer and prepared a typical job offer like \u201cWhat is the company\/What would your responsibilities be\/What you have to be skilled at\/What will you get.\u201d Wasn\u2019t bad. But didn\u2019t convince any of us. If we\u2019re looking in the creative business, we need to be creative with this.<\/span><\/p>\n We had some general ideas, but no concrete solution. We ended the meeting by promising each other that we will all deeply think it over and come up with ideas we can use.<\/span><\/p>\n In the evening, Klaudia felt a rush of inspiration. She came to the desk, put the camera on, and spontaneously talked about who we need in the company. When I came to the office the next day, I heard the movie is basically ready. Klaudia wanted to edit some additional scenes.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWow. I remember the idea of the movie, but I never thought it was gonna be made so fast!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019ll see, it\u2019s really cool.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n I waited for a couple more hours and learned that she was right. I felt it hit the jackpot. I shared it on our Facebook page, and after minutes only, the response was amazing. After 48 hours, we were sure that we\u2019d have no problem finding a good candidate.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Klaudia needed new drawing artists. And soon. We create animations for the business industry, and because of the constantly growing number of projects, we really needed support. It was hard, though, as working for ExplainVisually.co differs quite much from a typical job a drawing artist has. Why?<\/span><\/p>\n You have to draw live<\/strong>, which reduces the possibilities for fixing mistakes. The deadlines are often tight<\/strong>, so you need to be able to work under pressure<\/strong>. It\u2019s also important to understand the limits<\/strong> of our \u201chandmade\u201d technique and keep the imagination from running wild if the ideas are not possible for us to make true. To keep it short and sweet, we needed artists that would be reliable and have their feet on the ground, as well as understand the business industry (which, for some, is mutually exclusive, art, and business).<\/span><\/p>\n We also knew that our target group is rather \u201callergic\u201d to excessive \u201cbusiness language,\u201d so over-directed film, classic job offers on Pracuj.pl or LinkedIn were not the way this time.<\/span><\/p>\n Considering that our company was still rather intimate, a candidate that wouldn\u2019t suit our personal energy might be doing more harm than good to our overall activity, both in terms of the atmosphere in the office and business operating. Looking for a replacement would take from us other valuable days or weeks\u2026 So the stakes were high.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n We needed at least three more employees that we could brief in one day or two. So basically right now. Besides proficiency in drawing, professionalism, being open to new things and experiences<\/strong>, and the ability to perform under pressure<\/strong>, we really wanted the candidates to be creative<\/strong>. It also mattered to us that they would fit into our chamber, homey atmosphere, so we appreciated communicativeness<\/strong> and sense of humour<\/strong> as well.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n We divided the recruitment into phases of collecting applications, sending a recruitment task (that demanded several hours of work and a huge dose of creativity), and a phone call. <\/p>\n We created a movie, that informed our future coworkers of <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the very end, we put our e-mail address for the candidates to send applications. It was important to us that they watched the whole movie, as it ensured us that they understood the nature of this, after all, a non-standard job position. <\/span><\/p>\n The film looked like this:<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_code _builder_version=”4.0.7″]Problem<\/h3>\n
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