Many employers say they care about their employees, then you take the job only to find out they really don’t; they want cogs in their machine. How can you determine up front if an employer really does care about the employees or not? In this video we explore some of the questions you can ask to find out just that.
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Hey everybody. This is Robert Dempsey, CEO and founder of Atlantic Dominion Solutions.
And I am recording today from downtown New York City. It’s a lot busier than I ever remembered.
But, I wanted to follow up today on some comments from my, one of my previous videos talking about, you know, employees are people not numbers. Because there were a few comments, which was fantastic, so it spurred some conversation which is what I was hoping to do.
So, the comment was, one of the comments, John said that he worked for somebody that really saw his, saw the employees as just numbers and not people. And then another commentor, Mark, asked if, you know, there was any advice that could be given on how to find out of if an employer actually walks the walk rather than just talking the talk, during the interview process.
And I’m going to pull up some notes here real quick from what I was thinking. And I would say that some of the questions, and this isn’t an exhaustive list by any means, but you know, really some of the questions that I’ve asked folks, even as customers, broaching them, is really focused around culture and how decisions are made.
So, also some of the things I know that I’m concerned about as an employer are, you know, continuing education of employees. You know, do they put that at the forefront? You know, are they willing to pay for people to go to conferences or, you know, to watch webinars? Things of that nature.  If someone will request some additional educational materials, be it books or videos or what have you, you know, are they more than happy to buy those? And then how important really is continuing education of their employees to them? And then also getting concrete examples of how they have done this for current employees.
And I’m looking at my notes here and some other stuff that I have, questions that I ask really are, you know, how tolerant are they to change? Are they looking for cogs in the wheel or really entrepreneurial folks? How do they accept feedback with current processes and what’s going on? Do they have formal processes for that?
You know, and also how do they resolve disputes? So if they’re between, I’d say especially between, you know, employees and management. And the biggest thing that you can do really to see if they’re really doing what they say they’re doing is to talk with people there. Definitely, if you can talk with as many people that are already there as possible from different departments to get a different feel for it, if you’re working for a larger company, even small companies seem to have departments also.
But then also, if you can, find former employees that are happy and those that are not happy with how things went. You know, get their opinions, find out why it is that they stayed or they’re there or whatnot.
So, you know, if you have anything that you can add to find out if an employer’s actually, you know, walking the walk not just talking the talk, about really caring about their employees, please let us know in the comments here.
And I look forward to those. Robert Dempsey, ADS, and have a good one.
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