Congratulations on being accepted as a candidate for the job!
Below you’ll find my assistant assessment test, which you are to complete within five hours. It doesn’t have to be 5 hours in a row, and you don’t have to complete everything if it’s too much. Just complete as many of the tasks as you can, starting with the easiest tasks and moving to the hardest. I’m more interested in quality over quantity, and I just want to see in which areas you excel. If something is confusing, just use your best guess and I look forward to seeing what you can do!
Good luck!
Light
Assistant Training Tasks
Read through numbers 1 to 6 and choose 3 to complete. If you can complete more feel free to do so:
1. Create a quote card that Light could post on his social media: Instructions: You can use the free Word Swag app, and after you create the quote card, write a caption for it. See below for an example:
Caption: Apologizing, forgiving, loving without condition, doing the right thing, being truthful, keeping your word, being in integrity, letting go... what are some others?
2. Find a story to open Light’s weekly newsletter. Instructions: in Light’s weekly newsletter (which you can see here) he likes to open it with a story that prompts the reader to guess the name of a famous person, place or thing with a compelling origin story). Review a couple of examples and see if you can find a compelling story online that you feel could be a good fit for one of Light’s future newsletters.
3. Source potential audiograms. Instructions: watch this video interview and cite two 30 to 60-sec clips that you think would make good audiograms. Mark the start time, the end time of each clip, along with the first few words that start the clip and the last few words that end the clip.
4. Create a mock newsletter based on one of Light’s weekly newsletters. Instructions: using your mailchimp account or open a free mailchimp account, and use your copy and paste skills to create a newsletter that looks exactly like one of Lights (using the images and text from a previous newsletter), and once completed, send it as a “test email” to lightwatkins@gmail.com.
5. Create a form. Instructions: using wufoo.com (you can open a free account if necessary), recreate this exact form and send Light the link.
6. Create a Squarespace page. Instructions: open a free Squarespace account and create a landing page for joining my 4-day live meditation training in Los Angeles. The goal is to test your Squarespace skills.
For this portion of the assessment, please use Light’s training manual to answer the following questions:
8. What will Light teach on Day 3 (Refresher session 2) of his live meditation course?
9. How to handle unsubscribe requests from Light’s newsletter?
10. When Light receives an email from someone about a potential business opportunity, and he hasn’t responded within a day or two, what should you do?
11. What’s the “standard” discount code for someone wanting to learn meditation with Light?
12. What’s the best way to respond to general DMs to Light on IG?
13. What’s the reminder email schedule for one of Light’s meditation trainings?
For this final section, answer the following hypothetical questions. There is no correct answer in the manual. Just use your best judgment:
A. You receive three emails requesting for Light to be on their podcast on the same day. One is from Joe Rogan. One is from Deepak Chopra. And one from Tim Ferriss. You can't get a hold of Light and need to prioritize just one. Which one do you choose and why?
B. Light's luggage was lost on his red-eye flight from New York to London and he has a meditation session to lead that next day, but he has no fresh clothing. What are some of your recommendations for handling that situation, assuming that Light doesn't want to buy new clothes because he's nomadic and can't fit any new clothes in his bag once they recover it?
C. There was a typo on Light's website where the cost for his training was listed as $500 lower than it actually is, and two people booked in at the lower rate before you found out what happened. And it was your job to update the price on the website, but you missed that section. How do you recommend handling that situation?
D. It's the end of the workday and a potential client sent an email reporting that they can't access Light's website to sign up for his training, which starts the next morning. What are your instructions to them?
E. A university student wants to know which references Light used for a specific section in his book Bliss More. How do you respond to that request?