Company Culture and Other Nonsense
PAIGE MEAD
Make a B-Line for your next executive – Leadership Recruiter - Executive Search for dental companies, VC Investors & Private Equity Groups on the brink of significant growth & change. Premier Dental Industry Recruiter.
Suddenly (well, not quite), we are all trying to define Company Culture, looking to websites, social media posts, and Glassdoor reviews to give us the inside scoop on what the companies we are applying to are really all about. This is going to be a short post. The whole idea of "company culture" is nonsense and irrelevant if you haven't figured out what YOU value in work and professional life first. Know what means the most to you about professional work norms -yes, really, that is all company culture is. The very least of it is the pool table in the break room, and parties on everyone's birthdays in the office. The most important component of company culture are the values that underscore the company's behavior; none of this matters until you have it figured out for yourself. Most candidate's I talk to on a daily basis seem shocked to realize, when I ask them about their values, that they have ready answers that are about an inch deep. It's a very worthwhile exercise to ask yourself what really matters to you in your work at the end of the day. By the way, if you are hot on a particular company right now, the best clue to their company values is in how they treat their customers ;)
So what do YOU value? What are you willing to go-to-bat for, get in trouble for, and live and die by in your work-life? I'm sure it isn't a pool table in the break room.
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