Do You Even Know How to Describe Your Culture to Job Candidates?
Two years ago you probably had at least a rough sense of what your workplace culture was like. Then suddenly it was the pandemic, remote work, hybrid events, and now return to the office, so today it seems all up for grabs. Ask two of your employees what your culture is like, and you might get three different answers (or more!).
That’s a problem. Because, as we posted recently, the great resignation has a lot of people thinking about jumping ship, and the organizations with the clear, strong cultures are more likely to be the places where the good people land. And we know we don’t need to tell you this, but you will never have a clear, strong culture if you don’t even know what it is right now.
…the organizations with the clear, strong cultures are more likely to be the places where the good people land… but you will never have a clear, strong culture if you don’t even know what it is right now.
So here’s the simple solution: it’s time to do a culture assessment. If you haven’t assessed your culture in a while, you should do it now. And while we know we’re biased on this, since we built it, the WorkXO culture assessment is particularly effective because it doesn’t measure whether your people are happy or not—it shows you the nuanced patterns in your culture and where you stand along the continuum of traditional to futurist. When you see the patterns as they really are, you can quickly figure out what needs to be done to make your culture clear and strong, even in these crazy, changing times. That clarity can make the difference between a well-oiled machine and hair-on-fire stress.
The alternative is to either ignore the problems in your culture and watch your people walk away, or get good candidates through the door and not be able to keep them because you’re unable to articulate granularly what it’s really authentically like to work there.
Learn more about the assessment here. Interested in running it? Mention AMSJobs and you’ll get a “friends and family” discount.
