I want to get into a couple of of of things that i want to talk about and you you might
have heard me talk a bit about um you know great brands healing quickly we talked about this
a little bit last week and and and that's true uh i had this little uh this card about these
these things that i wanted you to do about helping you and creating your brand and
that if you have a solid brand whenever you trip up you you heal quickly this was the this was the
card that i that i was uh talking with you about one of the elements the things that i wanted you
to focus on but it got me thinking about uh when you're when you're actually i want to talk about
when you are interviewing with organizations there are there are things about your evaluation of the
organization that i want you to notice and this is you know are you picking a good organization
for yourself now the one thing that i want to i want to point you to is when you get into these
interviews now i coming to you as not just an executive recruiter and a career coach but before
i was a career coach and an executive recruiter i was a man i was a management uh an information
technology consultant and during the 18 years or so that i did that i consulted to more than 150
companies helping them improve their processes their technologies and those kinds of things
in in that segment of my life along with the recruitment that i've done for another 15 years
it's been something like 350 companies that i've looked at so i what i'm about to tell
you i can say with a good degree of certainty that when you look at the organizations and the
way that they approach things much like your good brand and companies with good brands heal quickly
but organizations that are relatively poor they do they do this they they seek the
quick fix so have you ever noticed maybe your organization or or one that you interviewed with
when when when an organization tends to be in one crisis mode after another after another
they tend to try to bandaid things like they're always in short term hyperventilation mode
because something went wrong and they now need to fix it immediately uh somebody left surprisingly
now they're trying to hurry and hire somebody a system broke so they're bandaining it it's kind of
like i live in the you know the chicagoland area where i used to live in the city of chicago and
it'll be like i would drive down the streets and i would have to drive slowly because i was worried
that i would hit a pothole and it would you know hurt my tire and break my rims or whatever like
in in the in in city chicago they would just you know pothole one after another and before you knew
it you were basically driving down what felt like a rocky road that's what bad companies do so when
you get into these interviews and you're thinking about well am i joining a company that's that's
in this perpetual mode where they're constantly seeking quick fixes the thing that i want you to
do is i want you to start paying attention to why they're in the positions they're in so questions
like this that you are going to need to ask them you know why did that happen how did that occur
like why is that important what are you doing next what would be next you need to start looking at
your line of questioning along these lines multi-multi-part questions to what it is
the organization is doing why they're doing it why they're in a predicament they're in
or why they're in the growth situation they're in right so so so as you start to go into these
interviews and you start to get the opportunity to ask your questions i want you to make sure
that you are not just asking the basic questions and you are not just asking questions that i've
coached you to ask in a number of my videos in in the in the interview intervention book
we've given you 39 great questions to ask and if you buy that inter or interview intervention free
book package buy it for the seven bucks or the chip in the seven bucks or whatever we send you an
extra ebook with 75 great questions it's not just about asking those questions and the mechanics of
asking them and trying to get the superficial data that that those questions could yield
but the smart job seeker and the real investigator is looking beneath the surface as to it's the
iceberg effect so to speak so it's not just what they're telling you it's not just what they're
showing you but are you truly getting it are they making quick fixes do they seem to be going into
one crisis after another and as murphy for your own employers for those of you that are employed
is this happening so it's just an indication now one other thing i want to say about this
is the opposite is true as well so while i say bad companies seek quick fixes so too
do job seekers who make poor choices about the organizations they join so perhaps you've just
been let go maybe you are getting tired of your job search and you're willing to take anything
maybe you are doing just fine in your role and an opportunity comes up and you make a quick
jump so for whatever reason i want you to be careful that you yourself are not falling victim
to the quick fix syndrome i i hate my boss i hate my life i'm not making enough i don't
feel appreciated and then just jump now those are all good reasons for you to want to investigate
opportunities they are i totally support that what i always grow concerned of is any
as a recruiter any job candidate that i have that is in dire need to make a change they usually
become more susceptible to that quick fix syndrome where they just wanna they just wanna solve it
quickly because they just wanna change because they don't like their situation to that i say to
you i want you to get ready get your requirements in order get your needs in order make sure you're
thoughtful about why you're changing make sure you're evaluating what you currently have
so that you're really taking stock of your current situation and you can be thoughtful i do not want
you to be you know the analogous job seeker of this right bad companies make quick fixes
i don't want you as a job seeker to make a quick fix and put yourself in and push a bad position
that you are going to have to rectify again in in the short term so i just i want to call
your attention to that all right watch out for organizations that seem to be making quick fixes
are you getting into an organization that has a healthy track record of supporting its
employees of supporting its customers and those kinds of things so be really careful
all right that's that that's one thing that i wanted to share with you today you