General tech skills

The goal of the tests here is to teach you some of the basics:

• Shortcuts in your operating system of choice
• Use AI’s like chatGPT.com and claude.ai to help you with your work
• Use a password manager, the one built into Chrome, passwords.google.com is fine
• Know Gmail shortcuts, and your inbox should always be empty at the end of the day, archive what has been answered Delete emails that have no historical value
• Know how to do screen recordings and screenshots efficiently, loom is a good tool
• Know what compression is, imageoptim on mac, or optimize.photos. But even more important, know about the best image formats to use, at the time of this writing AVIF has very good support and the best compression.
• Know the basics of HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
• Know the basics of python programming
• Naming is important, always have good filenames
• Basics about how a computer and networks work
• How systems communicate with each other, APIs
• How to install extensions in your browser, for example adblockers

This is the minimum set of skills we expect from anyone working with us.

Company introduction & showing how to do some of the tests

Tests

test 1

make a loom and show 15 different operating system shortcuts

test 2

make a loom and show how you would use chatGPT to write a blog post about a topic you know well

test 3

make a loom and show how you would use Airtable to manage a list of contacts, using sorting, filtering, and grouping. And making different views for different purposes, for example filter on “status” or grouping on country or company

Show a few Airtable shortcuts and explain and show the difference between a grid view and gallery view.

Also create a form and show how forms can be use to submit data into a table.

Also setup one automation in Airtable, for example, when a new row is added, send an email to a specific email address.

test 4

Make a loom where you show 5 Gmail shortcuts in practice, and show how you can find all shortcuts in Gmail

test 5

Make a loom and show how you would compress an image, and show the difference in file size before and after

test 6

Make a loom and show how you would use the python programming language to write a script that reads a CSV file and prints out the content

You can use AI’s like chatGPT to help you with writing all the code.

Test out the program on your local machine with a test csv file.

test 7

Read THIS ARTICLE I WROTE about SEO/SEM

and afterwards make a loom and show examples of good and bad filenames. Also do “inspect” in google chrome on a random webpage and show an image with an alt tag, explain in the video what it is.

Also try to explain the structure we see when doing inspect on a webpage (HTML).

What are the different tags and what do they do?

test 8

Make a loom and show how to use “inspect” in google chrome and see all images loaded via the network tab. Also show that you can filter on different type of resources being loaded, for example, only show images. This can also be used to download images from a webpage, demonstrate this in the loom.

test 9

Add the adblocker “ublock origin” to your browser, and show how you can use it to block ads, turning it on and off on a webpage as needed. Also use the google translate extension to translate parts of the text on a webpage, without leaving the page.