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IEVP, what's that?"it is not me, who knows the company best"
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EVP stands for Employee Value Proposition.These are benefits, rewards, the people, culture... Everything that comprises the experience of working at a company. What it offers, what it stands by. The answer to why your company is THE company worth committing to. However well you manage to communicate it, the hiring process will always carry some information disparity, don't you think?So, let me fight it and coin Inverse EVP.If you are already familiar with EVPs, it's self-explanatory...
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Predicate 1. People
The employee is never hired in vain. They join a bigger picture. The company is made of real people, not procedures and proclamations. And who knows them better than the employer?
Predicate 2. Culture
The people hired set up the working culture everyone follows. Though goals are important, it is not about declarations and stride-fors. Culture is predominantly about situations you might be ashamed to put in public writing. How does the team operate, when everything breaks apart?
Predicate 3. Business Model
How the business works and where it is heading determines who they look out for. There are so many quirks and nuances... The implicit details make it hard to verbalize why someone is not built for the job. Or why they are right, even if they do not exactly fit the mold.
Predicate 4. Product
A lot of how the company operates comes from what they are working on. It influences the team operations, client outreach and development possibilities, to say the least. On the outside the product looks polished, but there is always more to it. It might be duct tape and prayers holding it together. It might be ambitious plans, outside the official roadmap, spoken in whispers in fear of over-promise.
Predicate 5. Capabilities
Every company lives in a strange state, never operating at the level it aims for. There will always be processes in need of optimization. Plans constrained by unspoken priorities, stretched attention, or team limitations. Things quietly waiting for someone to own them. It takes a lot of insight and information to identify the gaps and to decide whether someone will elevate the company to a higher league, or suffocate its momentum.
Predicate 6. Struggles
It all converges into one fact: there is no one who has all of the challenges better mapped. Who knows them to the bone and lives by them. It is way easier to see the sprawling, interconnected company tissue from the inside.
Predicate 7. Needs
So, should it be the employee that looks at the EVP and decides "I am what they need"? Possibly. It does wonders for surface-level overlap: Are we heading in the same direction? Do we converge on values? Can it be... exciting? Yet, that is just one side of the story. To truly meet the desired goals, to achieve mutual growth - the communication should flow two-ways.
Conclusion. IEVP
The employer has all the rich, complex, oftentimes unspeakable knowledge about the company. Why should they compress it into a job posting? Why would an employee hide behind a CV? That is so last century. The IEVP is an attempt to present myself as openly and thoroughly upfront. My voice, no short bullet points - so you get a real sense of who you would be working with. Time is the one thing neither of us would like to go to waste.
Elevator Pitch"get to know me in 30 seconds"
Key Insights"just a quick peek!"
Last 2.5 years"things I learned made it feel like ten"
A not-so-long time ago in a galaxy country far, far away...
Two colleagues met in seemingly random circumstances. They learned that for a while they had the same urge. A feeling that it is about time to take a risk and create something bigger than just themselves. For the greater good. For fulfilled ambition. For glory...
Well, enough with the jokes and pompous introduction. We really wanted to do something that felt important, both personally and at broader level. We had a complementary skill set and were blissfully unaware of the hurdles we needed to overcome in order to accomplish it.
I am a builder and I honestly thought I'd get to build more. Spend my days handling complex technical issues, churning out prototypes and adding new tools to my stack. With time I've got to experience some of it as well, but the effort spent to get to that point was enormous. While there is beauty in creation for its own sake, business-wise you have to focus on things which people want and will pay for.
So, we were researching, formulating ideas, validating and reiterating. A lot. Found a myriad of possible combinations of answers to the timeless questions: Who's the user? Whom to partner with? Why would someone pay? What is the proposition? Despite always being on the verge of startup culture and the heavy interest in it, only living the struggle made me understand the real value of the tools it uses to map the space. How important it is to have a common map and vocabulary for discussion.
On the journey we have made wrong assumptions, taken suboptimal paths or entirely wrong turns. We started over or made a significant pivot at least four times. Also, probably burned twice the money we could have if done all over again (but that is still a one tenth the amount an usual non-bootstrapped startup spends before reaching an MVP). I admit my mistakes. I even cherish them and can draw my lessons. Things always go sideways, one way or the other, and I prefer to be there and adjust the course.
Yet retrospectively, this time is quite a feat. Experience, SWOT analysis, vague ideas, loose observations, values we represent... Everything drew us to healthcare problems and tech solutions. Low compliance and a sense of being lost during a medical process seemed worth tackling. A communication channel designed specifically around medical procedures information turned out to be quite an attractive solution.
We managed to build a network in a very hermetic environment from the ground up. We signed partnerships, built an audience, earned credibility and recognition. We were finalists in several startup competitions too! We created products and piloted them at client side in a highly regulated market, firsthand experiencing constraints-based development. Delivered a modular system that seamlessly connects a few roles in the process, spans multiple technical domains and is anonymous by design. There is a web application, mobile product, backend infrastructure, a website, socials, publications, blog...
Overall, the path has taken me to corners of personal development I didn't suspect existed. I am a different person now. I have grown in areas that are complementary to my previous strengths. Walked a proverbial mile in my stakeholders' shoes.
Profile"they say circle is the perfect shape, hence I'm well-rounded"
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Skills"don't even get me started with interests!"
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level 1Trainee
level 2Informed novice
level 3Rusty dog
level 4Field ready
level 5Hassle-free maintainer
level 6Engaged contributor
level 7Special agent
level 8One-man army
level 9Nuclear
Background"is it a Mathe-writer or a Wri-tician? I could never decide"
Experience"be like water. Or something"
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Nokia
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PeakData
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William Hill
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Axiom Health
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Exura
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A leap of faith with no haystack underneath. Definitely the biggest risk I've ever taken and not a single second of regret.
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So that is me, out in the open, as honest as I can be. I hope it helps you make a decision - whatever it turns out to be. If you think transparency earns a seat at your table, let's talk.
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