JOOK Internal Document — Written in September 2016
Recently, we have been expanding our team and we are thinking to identify a set of characteristics we will to assess our new employees. The summer when I was 11, I was curious to know how a computer game was built. What I did next was I started browsing & I learnt myself the basic skills I needed to build it. Voila — few months later I finished it (a really basic 2D game Terminator themed). By nature, I have always been very curious. I strongly believe that the route to all the wisdom is curiosity and you learn by doing. Therefore, I have a huge bias towards the curious people.
We have built “LILO” framework to qualitatively assess both our current team members and the future ones. LILO also happens to mean “the curious one” in Sameon. LILO stands for Listening, Initiative, Learning (mutual) & Obsessed (and in love) with “the topic”. We are looking for people who have high levels of LILO in them.
Listening
To us listening stands for taken into account the feedback we receive from all stakeholders including the team, clients, investors and data. Our goal is to continuously improve based on the feedback received.
Initiative
We have a bias towards initiative compared to experience. We are a relatively small team and most of the work we do has to be learnt from scratch in a very limited period of time. We believe that people who show initiative are able to gain new skillset relatively quickly.
Learning (mutual)
The moment someone stops learning he/she becomes irrelevant. We love people that seek to improve constantly, but at the same time we want the learning to be mutual. Therefore, we look for people with complementary skills & experiences. If done right this can eventually lead to synergy.
Obsessed & in love with the topic
When someone is obsessed, s/he spends countless of hours without even noticing because s/he wants to figure out what happens next. We intentionally haven`t defined “the topic” because that might be a different thing for different people. It might be a particular skillset, a task, an industry or even the act of building something from scratch and making it successful.
Keep in mind LILO its our initial framework and will always be work in progress.
