Congratulations, you got the job! Now you have to decide whether to take it. You’ve done your research and know the ins and outs of the company’s public profile, but how can you assess cultural fit — and if you’d actually be happy working there? Should you reach out to former employees? Or ask to spend a day at the office?During the interview process, you had a singular goal: to get an offer. Now that you have one, you need to assess whether the job and organization are a good fit.
Make a special effort to get to know your potential boss; a good relationship with your manager will be critical to your job satisfaction.Discount the idea of doing a trial at the company to get a sense of how your prospective team works and how decisions get made. “I knew Joe personally and quasi-professionally, but I hadn’t worked closely with him before, [so] I wanted to get the nitty-gritty of what it was like to be on his team,” Brad recalls.
Finally, Brad asked Joe if he could visit the office in the afternoon and “do some wandering around” to get to know some of the employees. “I wanted to meet the rank-and-file workers and have candid conversations,” he says. “I wanted to know: What do they do? How do they do it? I wanted to get a feel for who they were.”
Brad decided not to take the job, which he says was the right decision. Joe ended up leaving the company less than a year later. After he got the offer, he had long talks with prospective colleagues, including his potential boss, the vice president of operations, and a national sales team member. “I asked them why they enjoyed working at Adecco, what drives them to get up in the morning, and why they had been at the company so long,” he says. “Hearing their stories gave me a more well-rounded picture.”
Since when do you start finding out more about your significant other AFTER they ask you to marry them? This should all be done well before the offer letter.
Who cares about the culture? Just make sure you want to do that job
Check out the photo. Person responsible deserves a donut or two. Ridiculously creative.
jctoyzhut This is so true! I recently was offered a job over Zoom. Sounded great until they then went into the nitty gritty. Turned out it was an agency doing the recruitment and the actual company weren’t giving the answers.
My acceptance of job will be totally reliant on which people are allowed to stay and whom I have to leave. Open to multiple offers as long as i don't compromise on my friends and family members, as they take priority over any job or payscale. People won't be compromised.
Makes THE difference!
Test it out by doing p/t to start, if you can :-)
'I'm helping put a man on the moon.' - Janitor in NASA when asked by Jack Kennedy what he does there
Answer 1: What management told me to work on. Answer 2: Management. Management Manager