Kitchen Side: Lessons Learned Hiring & Tips for Job Seekers

The Long Game

In this Kitchen Side episode, discussed a range of topics including their recent hiring process, remote work, and the importance of being analytical in content and SEO fields.

Omniscient Digital founders, Allie Decker, Alex Birkett, and David Ly Khim shared insights into their hiring process, emphasizing the skills and traits they look for in candidates, and also discussed the challenges of remote work and the value of face-to-face communication.

This episode highlights the importance of thoroughness, self-awareness, and alignment with company values in the hiring process and also the need for curiosity, analytical skills, and the ability to ask thoughtful questions.

Topics

• Remote work etiquette
• The value of in-person interaction
• Filtering out candidates based on attention to detail
• Filtering candidates in the hiring process
• Assessing self-awareness and drive in candidates
• The importance of independent thinking and setting strategy
• Structured thinking and clear justifications
• Curiosity and asking the right questions
• The role of analytics in SEO and content strategy
• The unique combination of skills at Omniscient Digita
• The importance of hearing from people in the weeds

Show Links

• Connect with David Khim on LinkedIn and Twitter
• Connect with Alex Birkett on LinkedIn and Twitter
• Connect with Allie Decker on LinkedIn and Twitter
• Connect with Omniscient Digital on LinkedIn or Twitter

What is Kitchen Side?

One big benefit of running an agency or working at one is you get to see the “kitchen side” of many different businesses; their revenue, their operations, their automations, and their culture.

You understand how things look from the inside and how that differs from the outside.

You understand how the sausage is made.

As an agency ourselves, we’re working both on growing our clients’ businesses as well as our own. This podcast is one project, but we also blog, make videos, do sales, and have quite a robust portfolio of automations and hacks to run our business.

We want to take you behind the curtain, to the kitchen side of our business, to witness our brainstorms, discussions, and internal dialogues behind the public works that we ship.

Past guests on The Long Game podcast include: Morgan Brown (Shopify), Ryan Law (Animalz), Dan Shure (Evolving SEO), Kaleigh Moore (freelancer), Eric Siu (Clickflow), Peep Laja (CXL), Chelsea Castle (Chili Piper), Tracey Wallace (Klaviyo), Tim Soulo (Ahrefs), Ryan McReady (Reforge), and many more.

Some interviews you might enjoy and learn from:

Actionable Tips and Secrets to SEO Strategy with Dan Shure (Evolving SEO)

Building Competitive Marketing Content with Sam Chapman (Aprimo)

How to Build the Right Data Workflow with Blake Burch (Shipyard)

Data-Driven Thought Leadership with Alicia Johnston (Sprout Social)

Purpose-Driven Leadership & Building a Content Team with Ty Magnin (UiPath)

Also, check out our Kitchen Side series where we take you behind the scenes to see how the sausage is made at our agency:

Blue Ocean vs Red Ocean SEO

Should You Hire Writers or Subject Matter Experts?

How Do Growth and Content Overlap?

Connect with Omniscient Digital on social:

Twitter: @beomniscient

Linkedin: Be Omniscient

Listen to more episodes of The Long Game podcast here: https://beomniscient.com/podcast/