Overview
This document serves to explain the Fall 2023 recruiting process for Nebula Labs.
Timeline
Date | Activity |
|---|---|
9/18 | Release interest form |
9/22 | Close interest form |
9/22 | Complete first round of selection |
9/24 | Complete second round of selection |
9/25 | Announce project matches |
Recruiting Strategy
At the beginning of the semester, we will formally match people onto teams through an interest form. Anyone interested in joining a project will fill out the interest form. This is done to help teams be better prepared for the influx of new people joining their projects.
The interest form will ask for the following information:
Basic information
Contact info
Role (engineering, design, project)
Projects that they’re interested in
Why Nebula?
Experience
Things they want to learn
From there, we will match people onto projects based on their availability, interest, and skills. Being matched onto a team entails being added to tools, consistent work, and organizational support.
In an ideal world, we would like to match everyone who is interested to a project team. However, our project leads can onlysupport so many people on the team (they are students after all 😅 ).
From our experience last year, we realized that a laissez faire approach to recruitment led to uneven and volatile team sizes that also left many recruits feeling neglected, uninformed, and left behind. We believe that this approach will help project leads find all the team members needed to build out their projects, as well as provide recruits with a better experience within the org.
Anyone who isn’t matched onto a team is still free to attend project/division meetings to learn, interact with the team, and contribute on any open issues. From there, anyone who displays significant interest and makes a contribution to a project may be invited to formally join the team on a case-by-case basis.
For individuals who want to “join” a team after the interest form process is over, they will talk to the project lead on a case-by-case basis. Project leads will decide based on team capacity, interest, and skills.
FAQs
What does being “matched” to a team entail
Added to our software tools
JIRA/Confluence for all
Github for engineers
Figma for designers
Given issues to work on each week
Receive support on issues from Nebula Labs
I was not “matched” to a team. How can I still be involved?
Attend project/division meetings (all meetings are open to the public)
Work on any open issues not given to team members
Come to our events (all hands, after hours, socials, etc)
Additionally, we will provide learning resources for your respective role to build your skills.