Career Development office advocates online resource

Here in Career Development we are always searching for new resources to help you find a job. One resource is Glassdoor.com. This website’s purpose is to “see what employees are saying” about their companies. The cool thing about this site is that it is totally anonymous, so you know you are getting unbiased information.

Glass Door is great to find out salaries of current employees at many different companies. To begin, visit www.glassdoor.com and type the name of the company you are interested in. There are usually five to ten different positions with their salaries posted. This web site gets all of its information from anonymous employee posts, so in order to see the salaries that have been posted you must post your own. As a student though, you can create a student account to view all of the information without contributing your own.

Not only does Glass Door show a variety of salaries for most companies it also shows reviews from employees, interview questions, and available jobs. The review of the company is helpful with the Pros and Cons both clearly listed as well as “Advice from Senior Management.” Interview reviews can also be a valuable tool because they were written by people who have been through the process with that company. Finally you can click on the job icon and see the overall satisfaction rating of employees.

I wanted to try out Glass Door for myself, so I logged in as a student by simply going to the bottom of the home page and clicking the link for “are you a student.” Then I searched Goldman Sachs, and found that some analysts can make up to $150k per year. Some of the pros to working with this company were that the “entire organization works as a team” an employee also said, “working with the smartest and most driven people.” On the other hand when I clicked on the Interview responses there was some negative feed back. “This was a very, very, very, very long process from beginning to end. The lack of display for professionalism is absolutely unbelievable.”

It is nice that you can find important inside information about a company without anyone from the company knowing. Now that you have the opportunity to get inside information, we expect you to use it! Stop by, call, or e-mail Career Development if you have questions.

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