Loyalty and Value
(Est. Reading Time: 5 min) Do you value yourself? What about your time? Have you any value in your friends? Family? Pets? What about the company you work for? Not everyone has the luxury of valuing their employer, but do you? And do they value you? Oh, and what about money? Is that valuable to you? I hope you answer yes to these questions, because there isn't an upside to answering no. Think about that. When you don't value any one of those things, what does that mean? Well, that thought process is exactly what led me to define strict guidelines for interviewing. When I am talking with a hiring team, I am not just being interviewed, I am also interviewing them. Fit goes both ways. And fit, to me, doesn't compromise my values. So here are my rules: 1) I must be compensated fairly. This one is about them valuing me and my time. Fair is not even a specific amount. It's based on my experience and skill set (which is always growing), versus the job that I will be doing, ...