I’ll go out on a “social” limb here and say that companies with good career opportunities and good workplace culture are those that understand and embrace marketing and have smudged glass doors.
Posts Tagged ‘glassdoor.com’
Look For The Companies With The Smudged Glass Doors
Posted by Kevin W. Grossman • September 1st, 2011 • 7 Comments
Glassdoor Among Most Democratic Workplaces; Second Year In A Row
Posted by Glassdoor Team • April 15th, 2010 • 12 Comments
In favor of a democratic workplace? Check out Glassdoor!
WorldBlu, a company specializing in democracy in the workplace, has just announced the winners of their annual list of Most Democratic Workplaces and among the list of international companies is Glassdoor.com. We’re pretty psyched about the honor!
The announcement came as part of the fourth annual Democracy in the Workplace Day as designated by WorldBlu. For-profit and non-profit organizations from across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the UK, India, the Netherlands, and Malaysia made the list from industries such as technology, healthcare, telecommunications, media, manufacturing, aerospace and retail, representing over $12 billion in combined annual sales.
How To Evaluate A Job & Career Recruiter
Posted by Jeff Hunter • November 2nd, 2009 • 3 Comments
Liz Ryan brought up a good point last week – corporate recruiting doesn’t often work the way it should. Reactions to corporate recruiting tend to range from “amazingly bad” to a “soul-sucking, dehumanizing experience from hell.” Everyone agrees that things could be done a lot better. But you can make it better.
We have been talking about ways for you to take control of your career, to make sure that you are in the driver’s seat when the email or call comes from a recruiter. But what happens when that first contact actually happens? How can you make sure that this call is actually worth your time? Do you really want to be behind the velvet rope at this particular event?
Every recruiter approaches that first contact differently. Of course we are all looking for relevant qualifications. But experienced recruiters know that experience and education aren’t usually all they are cracked up to be. As we have discussed, the world of work is changing fast. Talking about what you learned 20 years ago at college isn’t quite the hook that it used to be.
Good recruiters avoid the “tell me about yourself” knee-jerk exploratory party-starter questions. They know that time (yours and theirs) ...
How to Tell the ‘Story of You’ in A Job Interview: Part 1
Posted by Rusty Rueff • October 28th, 2009 • 13 Comments
So, you have gotten the interview that you desired and you know that you are going to be asked once, twice, maybe five or six times, some question that is like, “so, tell me about you”. You then have five to seven minutes to tell your story. When I interview people I usually give them a chance to tell me about themselves and tell me their story. Of the thousands of interviews I have conducted in my career, I can tell you that few of those stories stand out. And why don’t they? It’s because they are not told as stories. Instead, what I receive is a regurgitation of their resume and a data dump that lasts too long and is far from being interesting. As my mind wanders off to something else, I want so desperately to hear a story of intrigue. Storytelling and narrative is our oldest form of communication. An expert on the impact of storytelling, Andy Goodman, says “storytelling is how we mark our history, establish our identity, and how we remember.” He also says that each of us are the product of a storytelling equation:
Stories you want to tell – Stories nobody wants to hear ...
