Want to know about the company before joining!!!

martinmarshall9

[FONT=&quot]Hi all,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Does any one know any site from where I can get the information about the employer of a particular company? Where I can know about the working culture of a particular company? And what will be the future aspects? If you people know any site so, let me know. Any help from you people will be precious for me. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Thanks in advance for your help.[/FONT]

~Beanie~

Have you tried looking on the Comapny website? They often have sections called 'Working for us' or similar.

Zazen999

From my personal experience, you can do all the looking you want; but you never find out what it is like until you are there; unless you know someone that also works there that is willing to be honest with you.

Darth_Trader

Zazen999 wrote: »

From my personal experience, you can do all the looking you want; but you never find out what it is like until you are there; unless you know someone that also works there that is willing to be honest with you.

I agree with Zazen999. All the company info on their website or Annual Reports etc will, of course, always put a positive spin on things. I would add to Zazen999's comment about finding an honest person who works there - try and find somebody who used to work there! You can sometimes be quite surprised how different a picture they paint (just try not to find someone who got fired though! They'll rant!)

Lavendyr

Depending on the company, you might find some mention on an internet forum - for example, if it's a big company that does graduate recruitment, The Student Room has a lot of forum discussion. Try googling the company, or "working for [company]" and see what you come up with.

mymatebob

The Sunday Times (I think) publishes a list of the "best" companies to work for so there may be something online there.

As others have stated unless you actually work there you will not know what the culture is like, or indeed what the prospects are.
If you have specific concerns perhaps you can ask on here - who knows someone may even work for the same mob?

PasturesNew

I was at a seminar last year and a guy was talking about companies and company culture and he told a story. I will try to precis it.

He and his brother both spent their working lives in the same company. He was in a managerial position, quite well up. His brother was lower down, one of the real workers. And they had opposing views of the company.

He got to thinking about how could he think that the company was fantastic and his brother think it was really bad.

The bottom line was that your happiness in a company is majorly connected to your ability to make changes happen. In a management role he could be part of the decision process; his brother was one of the people they "did things to".

There is no good/bad company. Just good/bad people that will mean that everybody in every department and in every building and every job will have a different opinion on how good the company is.

It's a shame one can't do a half-day trial when offered a job, to sit in an office and watch the dynamics and to be able to ask without others hearing what it was really like to work there... it might give some idea.

Over the years I've seen many people start a job and walk out by 11am. Interviews are held so far from where the job is done. I've even asked at interviews if it's possible to see the environment and it never is. There seems to be no marriage between your personality type, the personalities in the office and the office environment and company culture. Companies seem to employ people based simply on a CV and an interview.

Good luck!

lemontart

dont bother with their websites as that is a selling tool and gives you no clue to their working ethos, I have twice found out the hard way about companies that I would never have taken the job let alone bothered applying had I known the reputation ..........with one company I really should have realised something was up when the person interviewing me asked me if I had heard anything about working for the company and said that "in the past" it had a bad reputation ..........and of course when there a major clue of people leaving on a weekly basis with out jobs to go to.

Similar story for current company so busy searching for a job,

arthur6547

Hi, it’s really very important and difficult to know about the company before joining. But it helps us a lot when we join the company. I know one site which will give you answer of your questions. Visit pastjob.co.uk . This link provides information about companies, about employers, working culture and all. All these information are gathered by the previous employees. I hope my information will help you.
Good luck for your future!

mymatebob

PasturesNew wrote: »

I was at a seminar last year and a guy was talking about companies and company culture and he told a story. I will try to precis it.

He and his brother both spent their working lives in the same company. He was in a managerial position, quite well up. His brother was lower down, one of the real workers. And they had opposing views of the company.

He got to thinking about how could he think that the company was fantastic and his brother think it was really bad.

The bottom line was that your happiness in a company is majorly connected to your ability to make changes happen. In a management role he could be part of the decision process; his brother was one of the people they "did things to".

There is no good/bad company. Just good/bad people that will mean that everybody in every department and in every building and every job will have a different opinion on how good the company is.

It's a shame one can't do a half-day trial when offered a job, to sit in an office and watch the dynamics and to be able to ask without others hearing what it was really like to work there... it might give some idea.

Over the years I've seen many people start a job and walk out by 11am. Interviews are held so far from where the job is done. I've even asked at interviews if it's possible to see the environment and it never is. There seems to be no marriage between your personality type, the personalities in the office and the office environment and company culture. Companies seem to employ people based simply on a CV and an interview.

Good luck!

A good point and while I suspect it would not be cost effective for many companies it is something a former colleague and myself used to offer.
We had a couple of people who were ideal, as evidenced by the interviews, but we both felt that there could be potential issues.
We offered the people the chance to spend a day shadowing the job and on both occasions the people decided that our working environment was not for them.

Sadly there is no perfect system all you can do is homework as best you can