We need to find a great new employee, so we’re offering $1,000 worth of books to the person who finds us one. What would you buy? Everything.
Rules! You get a $1,000 gift certificate to the local, chain or online bookseller of your choice. To qualify, you need to connect us to someone. Either you introduce them to us—and they follow up by applying themselves—or they mention your name in their email (“So-and-so told me about this”). You can recommend yourself, but if you found out about it from someone else, we hope you’ll do the right thing and make them the beneficiary.
Small print: Our decision is final, incontestable, irreversible, and completely dictatorial. It only applies when an employee is hired. If we don’t hire someone for the job, we don’t pay. If we’ve already been in touch with the candidate, it doesn’t count. Void where prohibited. You pay taxes, and the insidious hidden tax of shelving. Employees and their families are not eligible to win.
Job Ad: Project Specialist for LibraryThing
LibraryThing is hiring a project specialist (full-time, remote position). Although we’d love someone in Maine, the job is open to librarians and other book lovers throughout the United States.
You Must
- Love books, love people
- Write, edit, and communicate clearly and quickly
- Work well independently and under direction
- Manage your time effectively
- Understand What Makes LibraryThing LibraryThing
- Be organized and detail-oriented enough to read and follow all the directions in this ad
We Want
We will pick smarts, affability, and drive over any skill. And we’ll tailor the job to fit your skills and experience.
An ideal candidates might have some or all of these:
- Book-world experience
- Library experience (with or without an MLS)
- Professional social media experience
- Familiarity with bookish social media
- Creativity and enthusiasm to learn new things
- Excellent computer skills. (We’re a Mac shop.)
- Technical skills (Excel, HTML, CSS, SQL)
Your duties will probably include:
- Write our monthly newsletters, blog posts, Facebook and Twitter posts
- Organize and coordinate events and projects, such as SantaThing, Hunts, testing efforts
- Help members with problems via email, Talk and social media
- Troubleshoot problems and test new features
- Be an active, approachable presence on the site
As a small company, we have few “siloes.” So other duties calling on organization, adaptability, diligence, intelligence, and creativity will pop up, and you must play an engaged and constructive role in company meetings on any topic.
Your job may include occasional travel—once that’s possible again—to meet your coworkers and perhaps to publisher or library conferences.
Compensation
Because we’re willing to consider a wide variety of applicants, we can’t set a salary. But our health insurance is gold-plated. We require hard work and are only looking for full-time applicants, but we are unusually flexible about hours.
How to Apply
Send your resume in PDF format to tim@librarything.com. Your email should be your cover letter. It should show your ability to be persuasive but succinct.
If we interview you, we will ask you to write and edit something “live.” We do this together a lot, so if that makes you uncomfortable, this might not be the job for you.
Fine Print
LibraryThing is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of religion, race, color, national or ethnic origin, age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, parental status, marital status, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Remember that part about diligence? Your subject line should be “Brie Cheese: [Your name]” so we know you are diligent.
Bookshelves image courtesy Germán Poo-Caamaño (see Flickr), CC BY 2.0.
What we want: LibraryThing is looking for a kick-ass programmer (coder, hacker, engineer, etc.) to join the team, working mostly on LibraryThing.com.
