🚩🚩🚩 What are your red flags in job postings?
Franziska Kroll
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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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Karthik Tatikonda@karthik_tatikonda
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First one for 100% percent for me
We are not a company, we are a family is the biggest myth.
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Beautiful.ai
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!
Collato
"We offer free snacks." - Come on. The U in USP doesn't stand for universal.
OpenOs
Vague job descriptions for sure
@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.
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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
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!