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Hello everyone,

We’re gathering pace here in the Jobs & Careers area of the Brandwatch Community, and I’ve recently been asked if we have any advice to share on writing job ads for new hires - particularly in a social team that uses Brandwatch as part of its suite of listening and analytics tools.

And so, to all the hiring managers out there, I ask:
 

What are the essentials skills, experiences and traits you look for when hiring for your team?
 

Share your advice below, and let’s create a resource we can all use to craft job advertisements in the future. You might like to consider:

  • The skills that candidates must carry vs the skills that are “nice to haves”
  • What lived and worked experiences make a candidate interesting?
  • What tools and technologies will they need to be proficient with?
  • How do your expectations change based on the seniority of the hire?

Over to you!

(PS - if you’re not a hiring manager, please do still feel free to contribute here - we’d love to know about the skills and experiences you’ve found beneficial to your work!)

My experience has been in hiring for a junior role, so I’ll focus on that. In my opinion, the biggest “must have” is that they’ve found meaning out of large, somewhat messy data sets without specific instructions. That could be social listening data, owned social data, search data, web analytics data, etc. A “nice to have” would be hands-on experience writing in Boolean and creating dashboards in a social listening tool. I don’t think it makes a huge difference which tool that is.

They’ve found meaning out of large, somewhat messy data sets without specific instructions. 

That’s a brilliant shout @Chris Lewitzke - thank you. I think that’s the first step towards good data storytelling, something I’m working on myself :)

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