hi it's Lynn Reiter of Linda Raynor comm
career strategist speaker and coach and
in this video I'm going to talk about
five red flags but you should look out
for that will help you to assess whether
you should take a job offer with a
company you've just interviewed at
because the last thing we want is for
you to take a job offer that you're
unhappy with and with a company that
you're not happy with and that will make
you want to leave after a couple of
months red flag number one they've had
multiple people turnover in that job in
a short period of time so this looks
fairly obvious if has had a lot of
people fill that role one after the next
in a short period of time
it basically means that it may not be
the best job because either one people
are quitting because the environment
isn't great or the work is just too much
or two people are getting fired every
time they join so you want to figure out
based on what you can look at through
LinkedIn how long the most recent person
that's in that role has held that
position for so basically you would look
to see in that company for that
particular job title who that person is
how long has held that job for whether
it's in the last six months or the last
six years and then if you can try to ask
the recruiter for some inside
information well why is that person
leaving why is this ruled empty or
needing to be filled once you can gage
that information it will help you to
determine whether there is a high
turnover rate for this job and help you
to assess whether you really want to
take on the position red flag number two
you just have a feeling your gut is your
best friend when it comes to helping you
to make decisions and the way to know
that is by assessing how you feel if you
just don't feel excited if you just
don't have this burning desire to take
this position then listen to that and
trust that because maybe it's something
inside of you that's telling you this
isn't the right position to take on red
flag number three the hard managers
don't seem excited when talking to you
about this job and about working there
anytime that an interviewer lacks
enthusiasm and really just kind of has a
bit of an aloof feel or by the both them
when you ask them about the job and you
ask them about the company that's a red
flag that's tell
knew that perhaps they're not all that
excited to be there either and that can
indicate whether you're going to be
excited about working there so you
really want to gauge and make sure that
you can read the body language of the
interviewers that you're meeting because
that will give you a sense in a feel of
what the energy is like in this
environment in this company and whether
this is going to be a match for you red
flag number for the company is not doing
well financially sometimes it's hard to
determine what the financial status of a
company really is especially if they're
privately owned and you can't find any
public financial statements about them
but of course as part of your own due
diligence and being a good job candidate
you need to do research and figure out
where this company is heading it's one
of two directions up or down and if you
can figure that out even that piece of
it whether the company's stable or in
there growing or whether they're in a
shrinking markets and they're facing
some spirit of competition due to new
technology for example then that will
help you to steer you in the right
direction as to whether to accept a job
offer with that position with that
company
or not and finally red flag number five
overly enthusiastic HR employees that
don't know how to take no for an answer
so this one's a bit trickier because
when there's a situation where an HR
employee is super enthusiastic about
taking you on as an employee it can be
an indication of two things to very
extreme things
the first could be that perhaps they
know that nobody actually wants to take
this job or that they've had a lot of
projections of job offers in the past
and they see that you're an amazing
candidate and they want to snatch you up
before you have the chance that they
know and that's why they're being
enthusiastic or it could be an
indication that it's just they really
like you and that they really want to
take you on and has nothing to do with
anybody not wanting the job it's just
simply that you're a great candidate and
they really like you so you want to be
cognizant of that and pay attention and
do the rest of the due diligence as
indicated from red flags number one to
four and make sure that there are no
factors that
leads you to think that this position is
something that people don't actually
want to take on once you can figure that
out and that will help you to make that
decision so there you have it five
simple red flags to look out for to help
you to determine whether to accept a job
offer from a company you just
interviewed at so now you know these
tips but do you know if your resume is
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