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🚩🚩🚩 What are your red flags in job postings?
As a culture manager, I see so many things in job postings that just make me nope dance right out of there 💃.
My favorites are:
1. 'We’re not a company; we’re a family.' It’s almost guaranteed to be a toxic environment.
2. 'Ability to work as a team'. Basically means that the boss will always have the final say and that creativity is not highly valued.
3. Not including the salary is a big red flag that they don't pay much
Do you agree with me?
Which 🚩🚩🚩 have you encountered in your time hunting for jobs?
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@vivan_puri5 Totally. It warns you that they don't know what they need so you will also never be able to know if you are doing a good job.
I think #3 and it's variants--because if a company doesn't include salaries/ makes discussing pay a taboo subject, then it makes a weird office culture of secrecy and unnecessary power structures!
@btbruch totally agree. I think it also puts applicants in a weird position. I have never liked the feeling that your future employer just tries to ef you over and pay as little as possible while you try to simply survive^^
Bragging in the listing with stressful phrases like "fast paced high pressure work hard play hard" etc
@andrew_bagby Oh yeah I feel you. It basically means: we are super onorganized, change our minds every five minutes but expect you to have stuff we just thought of done yesterday. Toxic for sure!
Like you said, not including the salary is typically a big red flag for me. But all of yours are head on. "We're a family" is always a way to screw over employees while guilting them to not speak up in my opinion.
@carter_barnett Absolutely. I think the guilting part might me the only thing that resembles family here :D
@gracehur I have seen a lot of still using names but no pictures... I am nope dancing right there with you :)
First one for 100% percent for me
We are not a company, we are a family is the biggest myth.
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