Thank you, Joy! “How do I know if I’m a good fit for X?” is a question that I commonly hear. I’ll be sending this post along to people who are asking about ops!
Two specific things I liked:
You mentioned several specific examples of things you’ve done, and I felt like I could visualize some of the hours of your day.
The questions at the end (the italicized sections) seem quite useful and balanced. I sometimes see lists of questions that feel pretty unhelpful (e.g., “are you ambitious? Are you a team player?”). I appreciate that your list includes several questions that many EAs could actually say “no” to, which is super useful information (and also makes “yes” answers a stronger and more trustworthy signal).
Thanks so much, Akash! Hopefully it can be helpful! A lot of this is pretty specific to doing ops for smaller nonprofits—alot of big companies will also have ops staff as well, and they be doing things that are quite different! but the general concept of internal-focus and problem solving will be the same!
Thank you, Joy! “How do I know if I’m a good fit for X?” is a question that I commonly hear. I’ll be sending this post along to people who are asking about ops!
Two specific things I liked:
You mentioned several specific examples of things you’ve done, and I felt like I could visualize some of the hours of your day.
The questions at the end (the italicized sections) seem quite useful and balanced. I sometimes see lists of questions that feel pretty unhelpful (e.g., “are you ambitious? Are you a team player?”). I appreciate that your list includes several questions that many EAs could actually say “no” to, which is super useful information (and also makes “yes” answers a stronger and more trustworthy signal).
Thanks so much, Akash! Hopefully it can be helpful!
A lot of this is pretty specific to doing ops for smaller nonprofits—alot of big companies will also have ops staff as well, and they be doing things that are quite different! but the general concept of internal-focus and problem solving will be the same!