Compass Settings

Finding The Right Fit for Job Seekers and Employers

Career Change

Do You Know Who You Work For?

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When asked, most people will reply to that question with “I work for XYZ Corporation.” In reality you work for a person, a boss.

CNN Money regularly publishes the list of the best companies to work for in the country such as Zappos, REI, Google, and Wegmans Food Markets.

Okay, can you assume that you are automatically going to be satisfied and fulfilled with your work–that the people around you and your boss will support who you are?

What if your boss at one of these revered companies is/was – in your opinion – a real jerk, a numbskull, someone from the shallow end of the gene pool.

We believe that it’s your boss, your immediate supervisor, who has a more impactful relationship on you and your sense of well being than any survey results.

So when interviewing for a job it is equally important to pay close attention to the person you will be working for than it is to the marquee over the company entrance.

Advice From Steve Jobs

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Steve Jobs gave a valedictory to the graduating class at Stanford in 2006 that is considered a classic and has been widely quoted: follow your passion; don’t live someone else’s life. Sound, brilliant, observations.

The part of that speech that resonates for me and that isn’t as widely quoted: “When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: ‘If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.’ It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?'”

“And whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

How about you?? I still ask myself that question.