Your first week at Prezly
We're not going to lie, the first weeks at Prezly are though. There is so much coming your way that it can be hard to see where to start. So come prepared, have your notebook at hand to write down questions, todos, things to remember.
On boarding you means 4 things:
- Get to know the team. Who does what? Who's responsible for what? Who's going to teach me about x, y and z?
- Get to know Prezly. What's our mission? What problem are we solving? For whom are we solving it? What does the software do? What does our roadmap look like?
- Get to know the processes and tools. How do we communicate? And how often? Who's my mentor? More specific depending on team and function: Which tools do we use, and how to use them? What's our build workflow? How do we communicate with clients.
- Discover your own Objectives and Key Results (OKR's). What is your job? What's expected from you in the first months on the job? When do you know you're providing value? What will be my first small results look like (first deploy, first demo, first customer conversation)?
Learning everything about those 4 points won't come naturally in predefined agenda'd-calls. You'll need to work hard to get these things done. But the quicker you feel you've got those covered, the sooner you can get started.
Guidelines for those first weeks
- Your mentor is your starting point, he/she will be the one pointing you in the right direction, the one that will unstuck you if you're stuck, the one you can throw all those seemingly stupid questions to.
- You can expect to get everyone's time (without covering the above items it will be hard to become a valuable resource for our company. So you have everyone at your disposal to help you with these.
- Be in the drivers-seat. See your on boarding as your first project at Prezly. Be assertive and drive this project to completion: schedule meetings that you think are required, prepare those meetings, follow up with additional questions, report to your mentor.
- Before calls with different team members, reflect what you need to get out of this. If you're talking with the product team, they can go very deep into certain areas, but you might not need that. Prepare.
- Objectives and Key Results are your guiding star, one of the founders will help you outline and define these. But it's up to you to deliver.
- Founders' role is to enable the team succeed, let them know if you're blocked or need something from them. it.is.their.job!
- Speak out if you feel something isn't going as expected.
- Review your onboarding afterwards, share your feedback on what could have done different. Update this article
Next steps
- Setup a trello board (probably your mentor already done so) with all the todos you see now. This will be for project managing your onboarding . Update this regularly, add task, assign people, …
- Start scheduling meetings with the different people required for your onboarding.
- Get your communication tools set-up : Google Apps, Slack, Zoom, Trello
- Get to know the mission, company culture and LT goals: talk with founders.
- Read through the relevant articles in this Handbook and other internal doc pieces: What we stand for, Prezly is You.
- Start learning what Prezly does: Tune into demos that are taking place every week (ask #sales), get yourself a Prezly account, read through the docs (ask #cs) and roadmap (ask #product)