HOW TO VET YOUR PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYER
Comments (1) Once you achieve the status of a $100,000+ job, how long you stay with an employer is very important. You must ascertain if a company is a good fit before you take the job. You need all the information you can get.
Just as it is important to monitor and protect your online reputation, it is also important to vet your prospective employer. If you feel strongly that you don’t want to work for people who have certain views or engage in certain activities, you can vet your prospective employer.
Hoovers.com or Vault.com and search engines like Google and Yahoo! all prove valuable when researching companies online. Other research tools are magazines, periodicals and other publications such as Fortune, Forbes, Black Enterprise, BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, Jungle Media, Hispanic Business, Working Mother, to name a few. Through best-of and worst-of lists and other featured articles, these publications provide current research on companies.
Use the sites listed on my blog about your reputation to discover your prospective employer’s online presence. Chances are, they are doing the same about you. Also, check out glass door for input from people who work or have worked at the company. Come to your own conclusions about who would make entries on glass door to determine how much weight to give the entries. Also notice the dates. One entry defamed a department of a large company but a new manager was brought in 18 months ago so the critique is no longer valid.
It is important to your career and well being to work for people with whom you feel comfortable. No amount of discovery is too much. Check out former employees using linked. Invite them to discuss their experience with the employer; ask what they liked and what they would like to see change. Don’t ask for dirt; that is unprofessional and not especially useful. Ask how you can succeed and about the culture, don’t ask for gossip.
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