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Ian Myers

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Chief Change Officer
#215 Ian Myers: Scaling Careers & Businesses (With a Hint of Tintin)

I would say that it is an interesting business in the sense that we field a lot of interesting questions that come across as ignorance issues. But in reality, most of the time are simply a lack of exposure or experience working with cultures abroad. Our team is over is, I think, 76 percent women. So it's a very dramatically different ratio than most companies, even at the leadership level.

Chief Change Officer
#215 Ian Myers: Scaling Careers & Businesses (With a Hint of Tintin)

I would say that it is an interesting business in the sense that we field a lot of interesting questions that come across as ignorance issues. But in reality, most of the time are simply a lack of exposure or experience working with cultures abroad. Our team is over is, I think, 76 percent women. So it's a very dramatically different ratio than most companies, even at the leadership level.

Chief Change Officer
#215 Ian Myers: Scaling Careers & Businesses (With a Hint of Tintin)

That is true. And I'll give you an example of this. A guy came to us a few years ago and he said, look, I love an EA Plus. I'm really struggling with the operations, my business. I run an investment company. But he really needs to be a guy because I think my wife really wants it to be a guy. And that was a new one for me in terms of gender preferences.

Chief Change Officer
#215 Ian Myers: Scaling Careers & Businesses (With a Hint of Tintin)

That is true. And I'll give you an example of this. A guy came to us a few years ago and he said, look, I love an EA Plus. I'm really struggling with the operations, my business. I run an investment company. But he really needs to be a guy because I think my wife really wants it to be a guy. And that was a new one for me in terms of gender preferences.

Chief Change Officer
#215 Ian Myers: Scaling Careers & Businesses (With a Hint of Tintin)

We oftentimes have had clients say, you know, I would like, and this is a real thing that happens. People say they're going to be interfaced with clients. So I'm a, you know, an attractive woman. Yay. Plus.

Chief Change Officer
#215 Ian Myers: Scaling Careers & Businesses (With a Hint of Tintin)

We oftentimes have had clients say, you know, I would like, and this is a real thing that happens. People say they're going to be interfaced with clients. So I'm a, you know, an attractive woman. Yay. Plus.

Chief Change Officer
#215 Ian Myers: Scaling Careers & Businesses (With a Hint of Tintin)

We don't entertain the clients that come to us with those kinds of requests, because again, there's the more innocent type of preference, which is to say, look, I'd really want a guy because I, you know, I think I'm going to have problems with my wife, even though not whatever, but that's fine. We can work with that. If you're coming to us and saying, I want an attractive woman. Yay.

Chief Change Officer
#215 Ian Myers: Scaling Careers & Businesses (With a Hint of Tintin)

We don't entertain the clients that come to us with those kinds of requests, because again, there's the more innocent type of preference, which is to say, look, I'd really want a guy because I, you know, I think I'm going to have problems with my wife, even though not whatever, but that's fine. We can work with that. If you're coming to us and saying, I want an attractive woman. Yay.

Chief Change Officer
#215 Ian Myers: Scaling Careers & Businesses (With a Hint of Tintin)

we're not going to be working with you because that's a ridiculous request and something of a disrespectful request as well. We value people's abilities, not how they look, not what gender they are, not where they come from, not even how old they are.

Chief Change Officer
#215 Ian Myers: Scaling Careers & Businesses (With a Hint of Tintin)

we're not going to be working with you because that's a ridiculous request and something of a disrespectful request as well. We value people's abilities, not how they look, not what gender they are, not where they come from, not even how old they are.

Chief Change Officer
#215 Ian Myers: Scaling Careers & Businesses (With a Hint of Tintin)

I will say we have some of our best EAs that work for us two to three years of experience, but they are smart, they are driven, they are capable, they are talented, and they deliver in ways that some of our folks that have ended 12 years of experience don't.

Chief Change Officer
#215 Ian Myers: Scaling Careers & Businesses (With a Hint of Tintin)

I will say we have some of our best EAs that work for us two to three years of experience, but they are smart, they are driven, they are capable, they are talented, and they deliver in ways that some of our folks that have ended 12 years of experience don't.

Chief Change Officer
#215 Ian Myers: Scaling Careers & Businesses (With a Hint of Tintin)

The only thing I would say around age is we have actually found that in a lot of instances, because our clients are startups, if people have been in the workforce for too long, i.e. 15 to 20 years, they will not succeed in the environment that they will be in, not because they're not talented, not because they aren't smart and hardworking, but because if they are not successful,

Chief Change Officer
#215 Ian Myers: Scaling Careers & Businesses (With a Hint of Tintin)

The only thing I would say around age is we have actually found that in a lot of instances, because our clients are startups, if people have been in the workforce for too long, i.e. 15 to 20 years, they will not succeed in the environment that they will be in, not because they're not talented, not because they aren't smart and hardworking, but because if they are not successful,

Chief Change Officer
#215 Ian Myers: Scaling Careers & Businesses (With a Hint of Tintin)

very familiar with using a huge suite of online technologies and working in a fully remote environment, it's incredibly difficult to adjust. And that does affect their ability to do well in oceans.

Chief Change Officer
#215 Ian Myers: Scaling Careers & Businesses (With a Hint of Tintin)

very familiar with using a huge suite of online technologies and working in a fully remote environment, it's incredibly difficult to adjust. And that does affect their ability to do well in oceans.

Chief Change Officer
#215 Ian Myers: Scaling Careers & Businesses (With a Hint of Tintin)

Yeah, as a default, we don't entertain preferences. People don't get to come to us and say, look, I want this gender or that gender. I want this type of thing or that type of thing. They come to us with a job description and we provide talented individuals who are capable of filling that job description now.

Chief Change Officer
#215 Ian Myers: Scaling Careers & Businesses (With a Hint of Tintin)

Yeah, as a default, we don't entertain preferences. People don't get to come to us and say, look, I want this gender or that gender. I want this type of thing or that type of thing. They come to us with a job description and we provide talented individuals who are capable of filling that job description now.

Chief Change Officer
#215 Ian Myers: Scaling Careers & Businesses (With a Hint of Tintin)

They might come with a years of experience preference, and I think that is legitimate because it allows for an approximation of knowledge and skills that no other metric can really capture. That being said, we might say, look, I know you asked for eight years of experience, but here's someone with four who should really be able to do this job, and that's the person we will present.

Chief Change Officer
#215 Ian Myers: Scaling Careers & Businesses (With a Hint of Tintin)

They might come with a years of experience preference, and I think that is legitimate because it allows for an approximation of knowledge and skills that no other metric can really capture. That being said, we might say, look, I know you asked for eight years of experience, but here's someone with four who should really be able to do this job, and that's the person we will present.