Assistant Dolphin at Dolfn
(not available anymore)
Your purpose
Help create more positive impact by collaborating with the Dolfn founder, Cornel. We have some good, useful business activities for you.
Key areas to master or learn fast how to master
- Written English
- Writing good emails
- Good on the phone
- Find ways to improve the collaboration system or way of working
- Navigating social media (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram)
- Tries out new (digital) tools
Expected values
- Courage
- Always tell the truth
- Positivity
- Striving for excellence
- Learning
Expected attitudes
- Attention to details
- Make decisions that I don’t need to make
- Have initiative
- Loves planning and organizing
- Likes to have & take control
- Efficiency
- Keeping secrets. We know plenty.
Example of tasks you would help to accomplish
On all of them, Cornel will provide initial guidance. Please note that your tasks will not be limited to the examples below. Many other tasks will be helpful and, of course, everything can be negotiated.
- Have a 30 minute weekly meeting with me
- Read my emails and organize them
- Create and send invoices
- Scan LinkedIn for good iOS developer candidates
- Planning my time weekly
- Schedule meetings & send reminders about meetings
- Gather & send accounting documents monthly (virtual invoices and monthly statements)
- Record expenditures and costs for Dolfn
- Find a better hosting service (simple instructions will be provided)
- Gather information about interesting people/companies that I find (ex. BigDuck)
- Follow people on social media (from a list)
- Share posts on Social Media (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram). Not many. Majority of posts created by Cornel.
- LinkedIn activity:
- Visit some people’s profiles
- Send some connection requests
- Check different channels for project opportunities:
- iOS developers Slack channel
- Upwork
- MyOpportunity
- Build a database with people that make an impact in Iasi, Romania
- Research the best ways to find a mentor
- Research tourism financing opportunities in Italy & Romania
- Update the website with small things
- If a sales career is of interest:
- Read books about sales
- Listen to sales audiobooks
- Start targeting companies to make deals with
- Start discussions about possible deals
- Send messages on Upwork or other channels
- Other possible, future tasks:
- Make payments
Future career development opportunities
- Sales representative
- Software testing engineer
- Other (based on your skills, tendencies, wishes)
Who is Dolfn?
Dolfn is a digital product development consultancy company offering services for every stage in the app development process, from research, to planning, prototyping, user experience and interface, development, commissioning, testing and maintenance.
We focus on more than starting projects and generating profit. We are striving to change the world. In the past, we have launched our own digital products, so we know just what it takes to empower a community.
It’s in our core culture and values to empathise with communities, empower them and solve big problems through the medium of a useable, scalable app.
Why Dolfn?
We have a vision
We help our people align with our vision, with the way we can make things better for them and for the world. Your job is not just a paycheck, it’s something more than that: it provides you with a purpose. You will contribute to something bigger than yourself which will help you with motivation and a sense of fulfillment.
Flexibility
You can work from home, from another location or from our office in Iasi. We don’t measure inputs (the amount of time you work, if you stay on social media or on the phone). We only care about keeping a good culture and bringing good results to achieving our mission. If you can help with that, you have all the flexibility you need in terms of your inputs.
We nurture the people we work with
Our main focus is on nurturing people and helping them grow. Providing theoretical learning opportunities, but mostly practical learning opportunities depending on your long-term career plans. Our priorities, as they are communicated to everyone (even to our clients), are:
- Our team
- The end beneficiary of our work (our apps’ users)
- Our clients
Transparency
We’re transparent in every way. Truth is one of the most important values for us. You will always understand your compensation plans. You will even understand what we do with our resources internally to achieve our mission. We don’t shy away from being vulnerable and talk about any issues that may arise. One of our core values is Courage which drives transparency.
Professionalism
We understand apps and our client engagement systems are proven. We maintain consistent positivity and communicate openly.