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Interesting concept. But what is the value-add beyond a mentor or therapist?

mooreds 5y ago
I think the focus is helpful. Also, the folks answering the call have been self employed for years so can probe your ability/desire to take up that challenge. More here: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/find-and-eject-the-wizards-with-danielle-baskin/ https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud... including a full transcript. From that transcript: Danielle: Yes, I love decurity as a way to talk about infiltrating a space, like, “No I’m a decurity officer.” Yeah, decruiter is basically a service where you talk to us to find out if you should quit your job. Instead of finding out if you should work at a place or figuring out what opportunities there are, we discuss the unemployed life—or the inbet—like, being self-employed, between jobs, switching careers, it’s a whole spectrum but there’s a few recruiters and we’re all like very experienced not having an employer or working for a company. And so, we ask people about how would you spend your free time. What’s your financial situation? Are you able to afford leaving? It gets pretty personal, but it’s highly specific therapy, but we also don’t have a high acceptance rate. I’ve only decruited like 15% people that I’ve talked to. Corey: Most of them realize that, oh, there’s a lot of things I would have to do if I didn’t have a job and I’m just going to stay where I am? Danielle: Yeah. Well, I think a lot of people think that as soon as they leave their job a lot of other things in their life will magically transform, or they’ll finally be able to do their creative project they’ve always wanted to do. This is true some percentage of the time, but I always encourage people to do things outside of work and not seek in their whole fulfillment through their job. There’s plenty of time where you can explore other ideas and even overlap them to make sure that like when you quit you have things lined up. A lot of people don’t know how to answer, “If you suddenly left tomorrow and could just float for three months, what would you do?” If people give me a good answer—and this is similar to an actual job interview I was like, “Why are you excited about working this company?” If people give me a good answer, that’s a conversation. A lot of people have no idea, but they’re just stuck in a situation where there’s things they could do in their outside of work life that would make them feel happier. That’s why it’s sort of like therapy, but there’s a lot of internal company issues that I talk about. A common reason that people want to leave is that they love their role, they love the company’s mission, but they do not like their manager, but their manager is really good friends with the CEO and they absolutely can’t say anything. This is so common. Corey: They always say people they’ll quit jobs they quit managers and there is something to be said for that. Danielle: Yes, it’s scary for people to speak up or who do you write a letter to? How do you secretly talk with your team about it? Are you the only one feeling that way? Typically the people that are the most nervous about saying anything are kind of young either in their early 20s and they feel like they can’t say anything. I encourage them to come up with a strategy for making change within their corporation but sometimes it’s not worth it. If there’s tons of other opportunities for them it’s not worth them fixing their company.

I think the focus is helpful. Also, the folks answering the call have been self employed for years so can probe your ability/desire to take up that challenge. More here: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/find-and-eject-the-wizards-with-danielle-baskin/ https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud... including a full transcript. From that transcript: Danielle: Yes, I love decurity as a way to talk about infiltrating a space, like, “No I’m a decurity officer.” Yeah, decruiter is basically a service where you talk to us to find out if you should quit your job. Instead of finding out if you should work at a place or figuring out what opportunities there are, we discuss the unemployed life—or the inbet—like, being self-employed, between jobs, switching careers, it’s a whole spectrum but there’s a few recruiters and we’re all like very experienced not having an employer or working for a company. And so, we ask people about how would you spend your free time. What’s your financial situation? Are you able to afford leaving? It gets pretty personal, but it’s highly specific therapy, but we also don’t have a high acceptance rate. I’ve only decruited like 15% people that I’ve talked to. Corey: Most of them realize that, oh, there’s a lot of things I would have to do if I didn’t have a job and I’m just going to stay where I am? Danielle: Yeah. Well, I think a lot of people think that as soon as they leave their job a lot of other things in their life will magically transform, or they’ll finally be able to do their creative project they’ve always wanted to do. This is true some percentage of the time, but I always encourage people to do things outside of work and not seek in their whole fulfillment through their job. There’s plenty of time where you can explore other ideas and even overlap them to make sure that like when you quit you have things lined up. A lot of people don’t know how to answer, “If you suddenly left tomorrow and could just float for three months, what would you do?” If people give me a good answer—and this is similar to an actual job interview I was like, “Why are you excited about working this company?” If people give me a good answer, that’s a conversation. A lot of people have no idea, but they’re just stuck in a situation where there’s things they could do in their outside of work life that would make them feel happier. That’s why it’s sort of like therapy, but there’s a lot of internal company issues that I talk about. A common reason that people want to leave is that they love their role, they love the company’s mission, but they do not like their manager, but their manager is really good friends with the CEO and they absolutely can’t say anything. This is so common. Corey: They always say people they’ll quit jobs they quit managers and there is something to be said for that. Danielle: Yes, it’s scary for people to speak up or who do you write a letter to? How do you secretly talk with your team about it? Are you the only one feeling that way? Typically the people that are the most nervous about saying anything are kind of young either in their early 20s and they feel like they can’t say anything. I encourage them to come up with a strategy for making change within their corporation but sometimes it’s not worth it. If there’s tons of other opportunities for them it’s not worth them fixing their company.