Hi, welcome to finder. FRED: Hi I'm Fred Schebesta I'm one of the actual global
co-CEOs with Frank of finder.com. ANGUS: I'm Angus Kidman I'm the editor in chief of
finder.com.au. JAKE: My name is Jake and I'm the content marketing manager at
finder. SOPHIE: Hi I'm Sophie. JEREMY: Hi I'm Jeremy, I lead the
publishing and editorial team at finder. SOPHIE: Yeah so we help make finder a
household name so we're here to help Australians know that they can come to
finder to find the best deal or to find a money hack or get a good tip.
NICOLA: For me a lot of what I do is media monitoring, so we check our mentions in
the morning, check how we're tracking for the month, make sure we're meeting our goals.
Across the day inquiries might come up or we might be working on pitches or
something or doing market research or data analysis and then throughout the
day, it just progresses from there and
a lot of what we do is reactionary as well. SOPHIE: We kick off our morning
with a WIP with the team so we all get up and talk
about what we have on that day and see if there's anything urgent that's come through
overnight that we need to respond to straight away and then we divide it up in
topic areas. So Nicki and I work on the insurance topic so we are looking
for things in the news that we might be able to respond to. Maybe there's a
travel delay that we can talk about travel insurance or there might be
something to do with health insurance that day so we're really reactive as
well as planned which always make things interesting.
JEREMY: So the publishing team at finder focuses on all the content you see on
the website and we also look after all the deals and offers and making sure
they're up to date and available on all the relevant pages throughout the site
we also look after content marketing, social and video.
I'd say the typical day starts with some data analysis at finder, we're very data-driven in
what we do and it's about reflecting on the results of the
prior week or the prior day and seeing what worked and what didn't and using
that as a learning opportunity to guide and tweak our strategy and
tactics ongoing to make sure that we're constantly growing the website, reaching
more people and constantly striving for more success. ANGUS: I work within the
publishing and editorial team. Publishing an editorial is responsible for a wide
range of different types of content. We have detailed guides helping you compare
everything from credit cards to broadband to lingerie. I write a daily
column called findings so I do that first thing in the morning. After that I
spend a lot of time in meetings working individually with people, working with
teams to work out "Okay what do we need to write right now, how can we improve
what we're doing, how can we interact better with all the other teams at finder."
So that typically takes up a lot of the day. It's hard to come up with a
really typical day but it's always busy and it's always fun. JAKE: We might have a push
coming up for a certain campaign and we just need to max that out on as many
channels as we possibly can. There's also some ongoing nurturing that
happens on a day-to-day. So in a lot of the forums for example we want to make
sure that any of our mentions, people asking questions about the products that
we reach out to them and answer any of those questions that they have. If we
find someone in a particular forum or on a site that knows a lot about the topic
and they taught us a thing or two then we reach out to them and basically a day
in the life of. FRED: We're looking for talented people to come and join this
rocketship. Our mission is to be the number one global comparison site.
Helping people make better decisions and we expect in 10 years time to be a
billion dollar company because there are so many things to compare in so many
different countries and what we need and we've always focused on from the very
beginning is great people. Great people to go and lead that mission, lead that
charge and take that all around the world. So if you want to get stuff done
if you actually want to have control and have that autonomy
and put things out there that's what we can offer you. JEREMY: The ideal candidate for me is someone
that first and foremost has a really good attitude towards their work
and is positive and willing to problem-solve and get to a solution. I
think it's someone that also is ambitious and willing to do whatever it
takes to win. ANGUS: When I'm looking at people to come in and work and finder as
journalists, first and foremost I want them to be great writers. We're really fussy
about how good the quality of each sentence is, how good the quality
of your story structure is. Beyond that I want enthusiasm and I want passion, I want
people to be writing about topics that they're really engaged with. I want a
willingness to learn. The core of being a good journalist is that you can always learn about new
areas and that you can always explain that to other people. JAKE: The content teams in
general at finder are looking for is someone that has a lot of specialty
skills. All the teams are so integrated: the tech teams, the publishing teams, the
client-services they all work so closely together and they all even
across the niches we're always helping each other, so we need a team player, we
need someone who has a diverse set of skills. Experience is something you're
going to grow with us anyway, but ideal candidates are able to work as a team
across niches. SOPHIE: The ideal candidate is someone who isn't afraid to ask
questions, you have to be curious, you have to be passionate, you have to be
willing to get involved and not just sit on the sidelines. The ability to react in
spontaneous situations I think is definitely a valuable quality as well as being
player is so important. We do so much stuff with other teams and even within
our team within our own niches we're always in conversation with each other
so putting your hand up for stuff is so important.