2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
It's no secret that the employer often checks future employees. Asks for recommendations. Calls up former colleagues, managers, and sometimes subordinates. This check makes sense. One toxic employee can disrupt the work of an entire department.
This practice should also be adopted by the applicant. The cost of making a mistake can be high. A bad choice can cost you nerves, lost opportunities, and even your reputation.
Here's what to do before accepting a job offer.
Step 1. Check the reputation of the company
In the information age, it is difficult to hide something. The first place to look is employer review sites. Former employees and interviewees leave a vivid impression of contact with the company. Employers from time to time file complaints about such Internet resources, so the site addresses change. To find the information you need, simply type "employer reviews" in the search bar.
The industry should also be considered. Reviews about IT companies can be viewed on the popular DOU resource, about pharmaceutical companies - on the forums of medical representatives.
In any test, the key question is "What to believe?" Take a closer look at the review. What do they write? Facts? Situations?
For example: “I worked for the company for a year. A few months later I learned that there are a lot of relatives of the bosses in the organization. There is a lot of work, but according to the results of the award, only their own will get it”. It is worth listening to such a review and rechecking through friends and acquaintances. If this is just a stream of unfounded accusations, then you can not take it personally.
In my personal history, a negative review of the company was once the best recommendation. The disgruntled applicant wrote with great indignation that the foreign manager spoke with errors, conducting the interview not in his own language, but in the applicant's native language. Moreover, I had the audacity to ask the candidate: “How do you like the interview? What can you say about our conversation? " "Good company" - I thought - "we must take." And she was right. Before that I did not have a team in which there are so many attentive and sympathetic people.
Step 2. Observe the future leader carefully
When we go to an interview, we often focus on how to please others. And we pay little attention to whether we liked others. Negotiation is a mutual process. And it is important to catch the "alarm bells". Here is my personal rating of the bad signals. Had the imprudence to miss. It was expensive.
Signal 1 - aggression. The toughest of my bosses in our very first conversation (telephone) suddenly showed irritation when I asked a clarifying question. During the interview, belligerent intonations were replaced by charming ones, and this somewhat smoothed the impression. In further work, there were nagging, unreasonable demands and even shouting.
Signal 2 - disrespect for personal boundaries. Questions about who your parents are, whether you are going to have a child in the near future, whether you have a boyfriend or girlfriend, who your spouse works for are a sure sign of unhealthy organizational culture. Most likely, such a boss will practice what I call "family coercion" and try to blur the line between work time and your personal. Calls and letters outside of working hours, constant tasks in the last minutes of the working day, forced exits to work on weekends. Such leaders assign themselves the role of a beloved three-year-old child. Stomping feet and overly demanding. You are the role of a kind and forgiving mother (and it doesn't matter if you are a man or a woman). Be careful. Don't get caught.
Signal 3 - the leader speaks more than he listens. One day I almost missed my train because the interviewing manager had been talking for so long that he could not stop. He enjoyed the sounds of his own voice and admired himself sincerely and heartily. It was simply impossible to "knock" on him or insert a replica. He built his working dialogues according to the same principle: a minimum of constructiveness, a maximum of narcissism. Actually, this was to be expected. The peacock's tail doesn't just disappear so easily. If you noticed him in an interview, draw your own conclusions.
Step 3. Observe the behavior of people in the office
You can learn a lot if you come to the interview a little earlier. Is the secretary talking to you politely or rudely? What faces do employees walk with? Are they smiling sincerely or are they wearing a tense "mask"? Calm and focused or anxious? Do they strain when they see a new person? How are they dressed? Do you want to be like them? Try to listen to yourself and catch the emotional response. Our psyche usually clearly signals "Yes" or "No". It is important to hear yourself and not let the excitement drown out this voice.
I introduced you to my personal collection of "rakes" and those questions that will help you to see the signs of future problems in the relationship with the employer. I'm sure everyone has something to add to this topic. Appreciate your life experience, respect yourself. And don't make mistakes twice.
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