We're out of ideas
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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851 words · ~4 min read
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do you think my job looks easy have you ever thought to yourself lonus is washed
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up he's out of ideas or even I could do it a 100 times better well today's your
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chance to do just that we're looking for two to three highly motivated
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individuals to join our writing staff and with their fresh ideas and skills
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help us take lonus Tech tips from just barely tolerable to a handful of people
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to the next level with improvements to both the breadth and depth of our
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content though of course we wouldn't be able to afford any of that if it wasn't
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for this obnoxious ad so
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BRB well lonus you're absolutely right
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even our sales team is out of ideas so
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if you want to support us you can buy one of these shirts the link in the
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video description and it'll feed my family and my wife and our cats so
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please do that that'd be great I'm going to get right down to busness we're
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looking for individuals who are able to help in the pre-production process which
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involves researching and requesting upand cominging technology for review
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brainstorming ways to tackle existing technology from new or interesting
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angles benchmarking testing and validation of the above product or ideas
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either by following our existing protocols or building completely new
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ones analyzing the results and forming opinions documenting the entire process
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and in terms that a lay person can understand coordinating with our hosts
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to ensure scripts can be written from the notes or even writing the scripts
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fully coordinating with our Shooters and editors to ensure the visual portion is
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accurate and there are actually some other thing we don't ask for much do we
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there are some other things that we'll be looking for as well aside from the obvious great attitude good Problem
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Solver works well independently or with a team etc etc strong writers will have
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the best chance if you're already working for a tech publication you would
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do well to include your portfolio we will treat it with the utmost discretion
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maker skills including experience with programming CNC cutting 3D modeling and
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Robotics are a huge plus as always don't
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bother applying if you don't have a sense of humor you're going to be working with this guy for crying out
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loud and this one isn't much better okay
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so you're intrigued at this point and wondering how to apply for this position
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well we used to list all the things that would disqualify someone from applying
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like for example not having a Canadian work permit and provide an email address
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below the video for resumé submissions but this has proven to be too
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complicated for some people in the past so this time around there's a Google
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form linked under the video that we would like everyone to fill out before
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going any further once you answer all of the skill testing questions success y
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you will receive further instructions but the gist of it is this you'll send a
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resume and cover letter along with a portfolio if available and additionally
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we'll provide some sample scripts from our previous projects and some suggested
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topics you'll pick a topic to research and write about to show off your skills
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note that you don't have to use one of our sample topics and a great way to
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stand out would be to tackle something we've never done or thought of before
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and you send them in and for the best
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now hold on a minute lonus we like yours and Luke's approach to Tech and Taran
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and Brandon are okay too what makes you think we would like someone else's video
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because this is already happening with most of you probably not even noticing
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some of the most fun videos that I've hosted lately office makeover water
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cooled PS4 ultimate DIY desk PC USB typewriter and our DIY bong cooler I
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wrote or at least heavily edited the scripts but they mostly weren't done by
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me some of them weren't even my ideas which doesn't mean that I am or anyone
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here for that matter actually out of ideas it just means that for us to keep
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pushing the envelope and to do some of the really cool stuff we have planned we
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need more resources to dedicate to them
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so be excited because whether you're one of the successful candidates or you just
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bought a rocking hashtag out of ideas shirt you'll be part of a 2017 that's
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going to be bigger and better better than ever for lonus Tech tips thanks for
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watching guys if this video sucked then like I don't know what do what do you
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want from me we're it's a recruitment video what am I supposed to
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do um yeah
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bye not going to do the whole outro