Scope out Talent Scout Role For Season 6
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Hey all I shared some DMs with @Samantha Marin#8487 as I got a chance to listen to her Bounty Hunter episode (linked below). She talked about her time with Writers Guild as a talent scout so I wanted to pick her brain. She also sent me this article that breaks down the role of Talent Scout (as it was defined for Writers Guild).
I'd love to invite her to one of our Weekly meetings to discuss this role with us, her lessons learned and help us ask questions and take next steps.
9/28 - Talent Worstream Meeting
- A Talent Scout is someone that is scouting for talent in and outside the DAO
- Will follow Onboarding document
- Will run onboarding meetings
- Attend Talent Scout weekly meetings
Samanthaj | Talent Scout
I’ll be stepping down from my role as Talent Scout in Season 3 to focus on building our decentralized publishing house in the EPA. I encourage anyone who wants to run for this position to reach out to me with questions on the role. I’ll still be here to offer a helping hand throughout Season 3 and beyond in the talent scout realm.
A few basics:
- Hours per week dedicated to talent scout duties alone: I spend around 12 hours per week doing “Talent scout things.” This estimate includes time spent in most Writers Guild meetings.
- Payment: 88,000 BANK per season.
- Primary tasks:
- Welcoming and onboarding new members (typically done through DMs and office hours)
- Administering and evaluating writing and editing tests, holding weekly office hours
- Answering questions through DMs
- Attending talent scout knowledge-sharing sessions and First Quest “new joiner talks”
- Setting up voice syncs with members on an as-needed basis
- Assigning guest passes when they expire
- Helping new members get their footing on their first few projects
- Fielding inner-DAO questions for work and talent needs.
- Things that could make your life easier in S3 (which I am happy to help with):
- Distributing workload of writing and editing test evaluation
- Re-defining the scope of writing tests so they best reflect the unique needs of Newsletter and Client Services
- Having a defined process for when inner-DAO work comes in
- Building out a “First Quest” for the Writers Guild that eliminates some of the endless DMing (it’s A LOT of DMing)
- Some qualities that will make you well-suited for this role (not saying I’m all of these—this is the ideal talent scout, imo):
- Enjoy talking to new people—whether through DMs or voice syncs
- Very organized or have a good memory (I tend to lean on the latter, which I don’t recommend)
- Comfortable with evaluating others’ writing at a “high level” and giving kind, thoughtful rejections
- Okay with being tagged in a ton of different places when you open Discord (more than our “normal” amount of being tagged in a ton of different places)
- Big fan of tipping new people and spreading BANK around
- Okay with some monotony (evaluating tests, sending very similar DMs)