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"We're growing." Sweet! Congrats dude. I'm so happy for you. But what does that mean for me?
(By ‘me’ I mean job seekers.)
What's exciting for you isn't exciting for other people. And “we’re growing” doesn't carry any weight anyway.
You know who else is growing? Literally every company hiring right now. The people you’re trying to hire heard it 10 times today.
Rapid growth isn’t always a good thing for employees. Plenty of high growth companies are total shitshows behind the scenes. Completely unrealistic expectations.
What’s driving the growth? Did you get funded? Who funded you and what are the expectations? And the expectations for this role?
But what every job seeker really wants to know: why is this role open?
Is it net-new to drive some specific initiative? Let’s talk more about that.
Was someone in this role promoted? Can I talk to them?
Oh they bailed? Or got canned? Well you might want to get ahead of that.
Whatever the case, say more than “we’re growing.”
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