I’m not sure if this is the right place for this kind of topic, but I’m certain it’s important for Nepal’s youth. I was born in Sindhupalchowk but moved to Kathmandu when I was 3 years old. I have worked in various sectors. I’ve even been on a cruise ship and had the chance to travel around the world, at least 40-42 different countries. Now, I’ve finally settled in Sydney, Australia for the last 3 years.
That’s a bit about me; let’s talk about Nepal and our youth. This isn’t an easy topic, especially for people like us who take things personally and are overwhelmed with nationalism. When I moved here and started working as an Area Manager in a multi-billionaire company, I was surprised by the work culture and ethics of the people here – the way they work, their integrity, and their ownership of their work. In Nepal, I used to work as a documentation officer in a Manpower company for 2500 NRS per month – yes, it was meager, and I felt like I was wasting my time there. We had a very poor work culture and a messy management structure. Every decision was made by the owner, and our manager was there just for the sake of it.
That was back in 2008, and I’m not sure if things are still the same (I hope not). Now, let’s talk about my project. My team and I have developed an MVP of an Amazon product research tool, similar to ‘Jungle Scout.’ I’m extremely busy with my job here and some personal commitments, so I have been looking for a co-founder/project manager with a good work ethic and someone who can make significant decisions. Ideally, this person should have a few years of experience in SAAS startup, understand SEO and social media content creation, guide our developers, provide feedback to improve the product and assist our video makers with ideas and scripts. I made a post on the Facebook group and got some responses but nothing close to what I was expecting.
I got some job applications without subjects in email some without any text(cover message) and some without attachments of resumes. I don’t know if out of 30 million, I can’t even find someone who is capable of handling simple remote project management jobs for attractive packages and a share of revenue.
The IT sector is not limited by our landlocked geography. We can build big companies and generate jobs, helping our youth become more competitive on the global stage.
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Jay Nepal!
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PM is core of your business. I suggest not to hire remote for this. specially cross country. One need to know the market, amazon, product, market what you are doing and plan to do.
i’ve worked with countless projects in corporate level in Nepal with multiple companies (vendor) and more than half of them requires guideance in every step. sometime makes me wonder if i’m working for their company as PM. if it is remote, chances are they are juggling multiple projects and will delivery half baked taltul result.
The PM you want is prolly getting paid peanuts feeling miserable in midst the friction between the IT Team, and the stakeholders – and is wrongly indoctrinated that this is the best thing to settle on aside from going abroad themselves. The ones that bother applying to you aren’t very desirable because they’re “stuckups”, that are just glorified supermarket managers that neither understand scrum/agile, nor the gravity of the situation in a product owner is at.
A friend once advised me that the best PMs aren’t hired. They’re grown, in house. Hire a bunch of interns, and mould them up from there onwards – exactly how well oiled you want your product team to be. Since I’m assuming this is a startup, letting one of the leads to switch to PM is a better bet for you rn than actually offshoring a PM that’ll be, like /u/captainright1 said, way out of their depths.
Maybe because what you are offering is not attractive enough for good talent. Top tier IT candidates are hard to find right now because of how competitive the pay is. One can easily get hired remotely from international companies with international pay, so Nepalese level salary hardly generates any interest for great candidates. Have been working in this sector for 13+ years now, there is a great pool of talent here. But unless you can offer a good remuneration and security of some kind, experienced candidates will hardly consider your offer.
For starters, mention what you are willing to offer in terms of salary and benefits. Then talk about your team structure and business plan with clear and honest revenue forecasts. Just boasting about your product and “attractive” package will only pique the interest of people with little to no skill and experience. An experienced IT talent knows that just the product amounts to nothing, it’s the team and execution that matters.
Hope it helps. And good luck!