Tweets, emails, Facebook and LinkedIn - there are tons of ways to get through to individuals you’d like to work with. When you’re competing with 100’s of other people you need to make your dialogue meaningful in order to stand out.
A couple weeks ago a story was launched on Fast Company about Shopify and its proprietary bonus system. The unique system Tobi named Unicorn was the focal point of the article.
A month ago we had YouTube sensations Epic Meal Time at the office to film one of their episodes.
Harley asked if I’d help organize the day so I came in to the office Saturday morning and set up for the mad amounts of cooking.
The boys arrived a few hours later and the rest of the day was just bananas.
We launched our own Shopify Swag store today. Yep, we’re using our own product to sell our merch.
Kicking it all off was a team effort that helped us to better understand what our store owners go through each day. As a newbie to the set up and maintenance of a shopify store it was super beneficial to get some insight on exactly what goes on from signup to launch of the store.
This past weekend 22 Shopify employees participated in Ottawa’s Hope Beach Volleyball Tournament.
Two teams came out on a sizzlin’ hot Saturday to support Hope’s great cause.
The day’s events included:
Shopify continues to maintain its culture while we grow. We do this in many ways, one of which being the atmosphere in the office.
Our current office is cool. It makes work fun and brings everyone together.
We are moving in September and want to add some wicked additions to make our new office even better!
Some more pics of our current office!
We have a digital map in the lobby showing each transaction as it occurs and where it occurs.
Every employee gets decked out in Shopify swag and other items that represent our culture: our fave restaurant and stores!
R2D2 fills everyones mug.
Welcome to the jungle! Meetings and lunches are held in our animal themed boardroom.
There’s nothing better than celebrating a good work week with a dance session in the Shopify game room.
Veteran Connect Dancers, Liz and Theresa, attempted to teach me some moves but as you can tell, that task is much easier said than done.
Perhaps I’ll have some moves down by the end of the summer.
Happy Canada Day!!
A few weeks ago one of Live 88.5s biggest fans, Mike Gagnon, suggested I look into their new weekly event called Office Crashers. Great suggestion Mike :)
Instructions were simple— tell us why you’re awesome and if we agree we will bring you food and prizes.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned working here, it’s that the people at Shopify love food.
Here is the e mail that enticed them to come…
Shopify’s Harley Finkelstein moderated an OCRI event entitled “Landing your Dream Job 2.0”. The Mercury Lounge hosted members of OCRI as well as guests from all over the city who wanted to network and gain tips to ensure they stand out in the application process.
As a student with little experience in the job search scene, this panel was of particular interest to me.
OCRI is holding an event tonight called “Landing Your Dream Job 2.0”. Harley came up with the idea to create a promo video that would be put up on the OCRI website.
He happened to see my flip video camera on my desk and asked if I’d video tape him and Rob Woodbrige hype up the event.
After several hilarious takes we finally got the dream video. Lucky for me, I was now responsible for editing the video.
As I’ve mentioned before, my computer skills are somewhat lacking (note: they are improving greatly working here).
After a tutorial from my roommate Lily followed by some seriously exciting time discovering all the cool things that could be done on I Movie, the video was complete…and I actually had a lot of fun doing it.
Upcoming Videos from Shopify’s not-quite-yet-Professional Videographer:
Beat Boxing Shopify and Shopify’s Magic Machine!
