Career Exploration and Career Stuff on the Internet: Evaluate a potential employer
Series of Blog posts on career stuff. Focus will be on career exploration and Internet job resources. My hope is that you will find the information helpful in your career journey.
As with anything you read on the internet, please evaluate the information you read and use the specific information that helpful to you.
You may wish to evaluate a potential employer.
Here are some ways to evaluate a potential employer.
- Work at the potential employer – you could start working for the employer. Your potential employer becomes your employer. Main problem with this evaluation method is that you dislike working for your new employer. You may have to look for new employment
- Temporary Agencies – you may be able to evaluate a potential employer as a temporary employee. Temporary agencies may have temp to hire arrangements where you can start off as a temporary employee and hired as a permanent employee later. (this assumes that the potential employer wants you as a permanent employee and you want to work for the employer)
- Indeed.com (www.indeed.com) – Indeed.com web site has different career resources on it; one career resource is having a “Company Review” section where you can learn about a potential employer
- Glassdoor.com (www.glassdoor.com) – Glassdoor.com web site contains a variety of different career resources. Glassdoor.com has a “Company Review” section that people can read. You do need to register with Glassdoor.com to have access to all the information on Glassdoor.com. Registration is free
- Know people who work at the potential employer – if you know someone who works at that potential employer, you can ask that person their opinions
- Internships – a internship where you work for a particular organization to gain experience in a particular field. People may receive an income from doing an internship; education places may organize internships for students
- Employee Turnover – employee turnover how many employees are replaced in a given time period (often given as a percentage rate). A high employee turnover can indicate problems for a potential employer. You can do a search on a search engine using terms “employee turnover” and the name of the potential employer. The search results may give information on the employee turnover for a potential employer
- Job interview – you may be able to evaluate a company in the job interview; you may be able to evaluate the work environment and the potential job in the interview itself
- Best employers to work for lists– you can read best employers to work for lists. Different organizations can create different best employers to work for lists. For example, Forbes (www.forbes.com) will give a best employers to work for list (www.forbes.com – link no longer works). (Forbes is a business magazine from America United States). Lists can vary based on the organization creating the list. I read best employers to work for lists organized by geography and by fields of work
- Type the potential employer in a search engine – Information on the potential employer may appear in the search results
You may wish to evaluate a potential employer. Evaluating a potential employer could help you decide if you wish to work for that potential employer