There are many Top Companies out there but you need to know what makes them top and how that matches your values.
DDI a leading HR development company defines a key aspect of interviewing and hiring as Motivational Fit. How will the person fit in with the environment? Will he or she like working in teams or alone? Will the rural location be a turn-on or a turn -off? Will a start up be a happening or hellish place?
I can clearly see this in my own career.
I loved working for a small consulting company in London because I was working with like-minded people, was in the center of trendy Covent Garden and got a lot of freedom to manage my own projects. Whereas I disliked working for a premier consulting because I found it too big and too impersonal. I didn’t like working for the “Top Consulting Company”.
Another example of top company which didn’t make it onto any lists was when I did some filming for an industrial video in a haircare products factory. The company was fairly small, privately owned and not know to be the top place to work. But the employees liked working there because they liked the founder and owner. He seemed to care about his employees, knew their names and their family history. That's big! And it was big enough to make people say this was their top company.
And I met with some people who worked for a children's charity who seemed to think this was a top company because they loved the mission - helping kids.
Top company must be the top company for you.
David Couper is a career coach and writer who for the last twenty years has worked in Europe, Asia, and in the USA with major organizations including the BBC, Fuji Television, Mattel, Sony, and Warner Bros.
He has successfully coached individuals at all levels including CEOs of major companies wanting a new challenge, frustrated souls wanting to make their dream come true, and front-line employees laid off and desperate to get a job.
David has published seven books. His works on interpersonal skills, counseling in the workplace, and management issues (published by Connaught, Gower, HRD Press, Longman, Macmillan/Pearson Publishing, Oxford University Press) have been translated into Swedish, Polish, and Danish, and published in the UK and the USA.
David has a degree in Communication, a postgraduate qualification in education, is certified in a number of training technologies, and has a Masters in Psychology. He is a member of the American Society of Training and Development, Society of Human Resources Professional, Writers Guild and the British Academy of Film and Television.
He has dual US/UK citizenship and speaks French and Japanese.
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