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Yes, I’m still at my current job I wold tell someone to away from. Lol. I’m over 50, and it’s so hard to get interviews anymore let alone job offers. I don’t believe this job will be around too much longer, more layoffs ahead with this company’s outdated business model. this job has caused me to lose essential sales and marketing skills because it is absolutely behind the times but.......I make an okay salary and have flexibility so I’m riding it out.
I thought I asked all the right questions with this job. It’s better than the other but I was completely lied too about certain financial aspects and recognize that now. Turnover is key and we certainly have our share. My supervisor has something like 200% turnover on our team in less than 4 years. I’m the senior member and just have 3 years. Pathetic.
Yes, I’m still at my current job I wold tell someone to away from. Lol. I’m over 50, and it’s so hard to get interviews anymore let alone job offers. I don’t believe this job will be around too much longer, more layoffs ahead with this company’s outdated business model. this job has caused me to lose essential sales and marketing skills because it is absolutely behind the times but.......I make an okay salary and have flexibility so I’m riding it out.
I thought I asked all the right questions with this job. It’s better than the other but I was completely lied too about certain financial aspects and recognize that now. Turnover is key and we certainly have our share. My supervisor has something like 200% turnover on our team in less than 4 years. I’m the senior member and just have 3 years. Pathetic.
I understand totally, and I can relate.
Anyhow, whatever happens at my workplace now, I don't worry because I'm not going to be homeless because I've worked hard for many years, and I live a simple life. That's a good thing.
1. Company Glassdoor rating less than 3.8 stars. Don't dismiss the bad reviews as sour grapes - if it is a consistent trend it is highly likely to be indicative of the company culture. Personally, I limit my interviews to companies with 4.0 star ratings and comparable number of reviews.
2. Baby boomer boss. If my direct manager is 50+ I won't take a chance in moving forward with the position. In my field, with rare exception, the generational gap is far too wide for me to accept dinosaur, my-way-or-no-way micromanagement practices that will soon reveal itself with this demographic.
3. Lack of clear team, individual goals and expectations. If I have to set my own workplan goals and the team doesn't have one, overearching metric we are striving to meet, that poses a huge problem during performance review time.
4. If the company doesn't have a clear, systematic way for rewarding tenure - run.
And you are still there (?) Haha. Just kidding. Anyway, anyone stays in a bad company for a reason or many reasons. Anybody might have known the company s/he is planning to get into is not so good, but still wants to get the job there because s/he needs to work and earn money to pay bills badly.
To me, one way (of many ways) to spot the company, besides seeing or knowing the turnovers of that company, is to read the reviews about the company on indeed, glassdoor and many other websites. If the company has many 1 & 2 star reviews, you better to beware. Don't believe in 5 stars. More often, those are probably written by the management or the *sskissers. 3 & 4 stars are more reasonable to believe.
That is only good to some extent. For example, I have one friend and several former coworkers who all worked for the same unit in an organization that tends to get bad reviews on Glassdoor. They all really liked their unit quite a bit. The main reason they left was because it was a state agency and there is no pay raises there. Meanwhile, my last job has tons of people who leave and come back or who move within the organization. However, my unit (which has almost no reviews) had horrible morale and turnover in the past couple of years. You would not have known that from Glassdoor. You really have to be able to find the particular unit/job you are doing to make any judgment.
I have found that a very reliable way to assess how a company treats its employees is to look at the way the employees treat the company's clientele. This is obviously more difficult in an industry that does not deal directly with the public, of course, but with a bit of digging, it's possible.
In my experience, the way employees treat customers/clients can provide a direct reflection of how those employees are treated by senior management. If the leadership values their employees as assets and treats them that way, those employees will pass that on to their clients. On the other hand, if upper management considers employees to be a necessary inconvenience that they have to put up with to get their bonuses, well, that attitude comes through to the customers as well.
I'll be the first to agree that it is not a perfect correlation, and there could be wide variations among different work units depending on who manages them. But it's another clue that a savvy job-seeker can explore, along with the other excellent suggestions in this thread, in assessing the culture and work environment of a potential employer.
Yes, very revealing and eye-opening One of the few assets for applicants that I know of.
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One of the few assets for applicants that I know of.
