How to choose a place of work: Tips COO Nasdaq Adena Friedman
Alexandra Savina
ABOUT TIPS ABOUT HOW TO BUILD A CAREER AND SUCCESS in the professional field, easy to get lost. In the new section, we propose to focus on the advice of famous people and explain why they should listen. In the new issue, we turned to the recommendations of the President and COO Nasdaq, Adena Friedman, and reason how to put her advice into practice.
If your interview is postponed several times, most likely, here you are free to deadlines.
Adena Friedman - President and COO of the American Stock Exchange Nasdaq. At Nasdaq, she worked for most of her life, moving from office to office, and therefore speaks of the benefits of such a career path: she believes that you should be careful about changing jobs and not changing it too often - it’s better to grow within one company. This view is not shared by everyone: although it is believed that employers do not like job seekers who often change companies, everything is very individual and depends on many factors - for example, the sphere in which you work and your age (at the beginning of our career, As a rule, I want to get experience in different companies, so we often change jobs).
But among the councils of Adena, Friedman is the one that suits everyone, no matter how often you change jobs. She says that you need to carefully select an employer and give preference to a company that will give you the opportunity to grow and develop over time. “Will this organization pay you back for loyalty, giving you new responsibilities and projects? Will it listen to your opinion when you ask for it? In other words, does good work in this organization give you the opportunity to grow in the long term? If the answers to these the questions are positive, this is the place where the loyalty of the organization will benefit both you and your employer, ”says Adena.
We often forget about it, but when applying for a job, the decision is taken by two parties: the employee must also decide whether the employer is suitable for him. And if there are a lot of tips on how to impress a potential employer, then the criteria for choosing the right company are much less common. Each of us has a list of requirements for the place where we want to work: it is important for someone that the values of the company correspond to his personal convictions, to others the team and atmosphere reigning in the company are more important, the third is the ability to act freely, outside the strict framework. Before you start your job search, you should create a similar list for yourself in order to prioritize and understand what you need to look for in an employer.
Evaluate what degree of freedom of action in the work you need: in a large company, your responsibilities are likely to be more limited, and in the small there will certainly be more freedom of action, but you may need to take on additional obligations not related to your field of activity . Consider whether there will be a comfortable company atmosphere for you: for example, if you can work in a company with a strict dress code where you cannot be late for the office for a minute. How company employees communicate with each other can be analyzed at the interview stage (do employees who interview each other interrupt each other? How do they talk to each other?). Pay attention to how the company treats everyday tasks: for example, if your interview is postponed several times, most likely you are free to deadlines.
It is worth thinking about whether you like your immediate supervisor. Most likely, you will have to spend a lot of time together and often interact - so if it’s not pleasant for you to communicate with him at the interview stage, this is a good reason to think and evaluate what is more important for you - the proposed position or the person of the boss.
In addition to standard questions about whether the company offers refresher courses and what is the likelihood of an increase from the position you want to take, you should also ask at the interview what career path was for those who held this position before you: they may have left for a new , a higher position, were dismissed after several months of work or retired, or maybe this is a completely new position. In the end, you can always ask the interviewer what he likes about his work: if the interviewee is lost and cannot come up with an answer - this is a reason to think.
illustration: Dasha Chertanova