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Are You a “Fit” for My Company’s Culture?

Over the last few weeks, I’ve brought three new people into our firm, two veteran financial planners and a person to provide market research and analysis for our growing team of advisors. What has this got to do with tips for job seekers? Everything , because to get to these three I had to “say no” to dozens of quality candidates who were not going to be a “fit” for our company’s unique culture. Our firm, like so many others, works very diligently to ensure that it maintains its “mojo” – that “thing” – the “energy” - which does so much to make one company different from all of its competitors. And that “mojo” cannot exist without the synergies that are created by combining the wide variety of individual talents into a cohesive team that is focused on exceeding the expectations of our clients. Every person on our team understands that they all “own” every client, every prospect and every person who comes in to see us – including the UPS guy. Bottom line – that is our firm’s cu