-: So I think, you know for my particular line of work,
like it helps for working in sports book operations,
more of an operational role
if you're like, if you have a passion for sports,
you know basically if you're a sports fan
if you bet before, if you know about betting,
and even if you like, are a sports fan,
but haven't bet before,
obviously you know, you can get into it pretty quickly.
So that's for more like my department,
That's something that I really like about my sort of
office culture, is that we're all like,
very different people,
you know come from different backgrounds,
and have different skill sets,
be it you know, in communications,
in operations, in analytics,
in PR, marketing, et cetera, et cetera.
But sort of everything that ties us together
is sort of a you know, a love for sports
and a sort of you know,
ability to sort of connect on that level.
When the resumes come to me,
I sort of just want to know
sort of a lot of things that are off the resume.
I like to talk to the candidates,
I like to see you know,
in my particular line of work like,
how much they know about sports,
how much they know about betting?
Have they takent he time for,
a good example here,
have they taken the time to
download the DraftKings app on their phone,
download competitor's apps,
taking the time to place a couple bets,
maybe come over to New Jersey or Indiana,
or West Virginia, or Pennsylvania
and sort of place a bet,
get really emersed in the product.
I think that's something that sort of
separates many candidates from each other.
Is like the degree to which they emerse themselves
in the product or the company
or just learning about the industry beforehand so.
But even beyond that at the company
there's like various people
who don't have the same passion for sports,
and it's not necessarily a necessecity
to work at DraftKings like,
people are passionate for technology,
people are passionate for growing your brand new business,
for like marketing, for these types of things
and I think that you know,
whereas for my particular department
you might need to have more of a domain knowledge
about sports and betting.
There's functions throughout the company
like if you're passionate about technology
or like growing your business
or like engineering or something like that,
there are opportunities
because the company's growing so quickly.