Skift Selected to LinkedIn’s 2018 Top Startups List
I’m excited to share that Skift has been selected to be on LinkedIn’s 2018 Top Startups list, which celebrates the most sought-after places to work for by professionals. According to LinkedIn, Skift is “one of 50 [startups globally] changing the way people work and live.“
The Top Startups methodology is a combination of the vast repository of LinkedIn data that focused on what job seekers are doing, mixed with its own editorial lens.
We are delighted with the recognition, and it speaks to the culture we have created at Skift, and to each of our team of almost 55 now that creates that culture. Six years into Skift, we don’t call ourselves a startup anymore, we are just a company, but we have retained the agility, hunger, execution-focus and openness of a startup.
Earlier this summer I wrote a internal memo to our team about our culture and posted a version of it online here.
The memo answered the question: What is your culture like?
“For us culture stems from meaningful work we do, and each of us seeing the tangible in-situ effects of that work — help change the direction of the future of travel and dining, even — in a reasonably short time frame on the people we create everything for.
“Our culture ties in to the larger promise of travel. ‘If you are tired of Skift, you are tired of the promise of travel,’ a line I use often. That, in essence is what our promise is to the global travel industry: that we are eternally curious about the business and creative possibilities of travel and what it means to the world at large.
“That is what gives meaning to everything we do as a company. That is what inhabits our culture.“
We take the recognition by a global entity like LinkedIn seriously, and can’t wait to unveil the slate of new hires for the rest of 2018 (about five more to come) and over 2019, almost all of them likely hired through LinkedIn, I can guarantee!
Do drop us a note at [email protected] and tell us why you want to work at Skift. We will keep you on the consideration list for relevant jobs in the coming months. Also keep an eye out on LinkedIn for jobs we will post through the coming months and years. We highly encourage minorities of all stripes to consider us as an option.
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Rafat Ali is the CEO and founder of Skift, the global travel intelligence company: News, Analysis, Research and conferences on online travel, airlines, hotels, tourism, cruises, startups, tech and more. Subscribe to the daily newsletter and you will be a lot smarter about the future of travel, we guarantee it!
Previously, he was the founder of paidContent, which he sold to Guardian Media Group in 2008.
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6 年Congratulations Rafat Ali & skift team! I am fan and loyal “consumer” of the insights you regularly share. All the best and continuous success ????
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6 年Congratulations.? You've grown so quickly and seemingly without hesitation.? Good for you.
Congratulations! This is well-earned recognition.?
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6 年Compliments. I know I value the great and insightful content you all create on a daily basis, so it makes sense that there is such a strong culture and team fueling that.