Everyone deserves honest answers to their questions, right? While how you look in a pair of pants or knee-high skirt is important, honest information is particularly necessary if it’s about something as important as your next job, and the company you’ll be working for. SEEK’s newest product, company reviews provides candidates with honest insight and information on a huge range of companies from around Australia.

The reviews are submitted by current or past employers, and assess how companies rate on areas like career development, work life balance, management, benefits and perks, diversity and equal opportunity, and working environment. Use company reviews the next time you’re applying for a job, going for an interview or considering a job offer to gain these benefits:

The reviews are submitted by current or past employers, and assess how companies rate on areas like career development, work life balance, management, benefits and perks, diversity and equal opportunity, and working environment.

• Make an informed decision. With company reviews, you can minimise the risk that you won’t like your next job by having loads of insight before accepting the role. If you’re choosing between more than one job offer, your decision will be easier to make, or if a company’s reviews reveal a red flag, you may wish to wait out your current job for a better offer to come your way.
   
• Weigh up the pros and cons. Looking to build friendships with your colleagues? Keen on working your way up? Maybe you’re looking for a job that offers flexibility while you study or parent. With detailed reviews, you can use the good and bad qualities expressed consistently by employees to weigh up whether the company at hand is going to meet your needs.
   
• Know what to expect. Company reviews also helps you be realistic about what you are and aren’t willing to accept in your next job. If you know that the hours will be long, for example, but advancing your career is a priority, then you may wish to accept the job for a better chance at career development. At least you know what you’re in for before you’ve started the job, right?
   
• Do your research all in one place. You no longer have to waste time digging around on Google, calling friends of friends, or repeatedly reading the ‘About’ page on the company’s website to know more about your potential new workplace. Company reviews lets you do it all in one place, at the click of a few buttons. 
   
• Access unbiased, honest opinion. Company reviews cover all aspects of a job, from pay to management skills and everything in between, and because the reviews are anonymous, you can find past and present employees being really open and candid about their experiences with a company, without being screened or filtered. It’s a great incentive for companies to work on bettering their internal offerings.
   
• Read info that’s department, location and role-specific. Of course, a sales assistant in a supermarket in Brisbane will have a very different experience at work to a graphic designer in an advertising firm in Melbourne. Reviewers are required to state their role and location, which is presented with each review. That way, you can gauge whether you will be affected by the issues, or benefit from the upsides!

Looking for a company that doesn’t yet have reviews? Company reviews is expanding by the day with hundreds of reviewers submitting their opinions on existing and new company listings. Want to share your own opinions? Why not submit a review today?
 

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