How To Find A Great Place To Work

If you are like most people, you are going to spend almost a third of your waking hours at work. One third of your weekly life around people that are not your family or friends (at least not at first) and so one of the best things you can do to decide whether or not to work for company you’ll spend a third of your time at is to decide if it’s truly a great place to work.

And while there are lists galore promoting a “definitive” ranking of great places to work, there’s a lot of companies that never appear anywhere on any of those lists. (Most lists are capped at 50 or 100 companies…and there’s a whole LOT more places to work than just 100 companies). So how do you find the others? Or, more importantly, if you’re looking at a specific company, how do you find out if that one is a great place to work?

Simple: Ask former employees.

A great place to work is one that invests in its people and one with a great culture. That means it’s a company that puts people first throughout the whole lifecycle of their career with the organization, from hiring and training, to developing them throughout their career, and even how it treats departures. The only way you can get a clear picture of the company and whether or not it invests in people is by asking employees who have been through the whole life cycle of employment — people who’ve left. You’ll…