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Great Rated!™ gives job seekers the inside scoop on companies and their cultures so they can find their best fit. Through our Great Rated!™ Reviews, job seekers gain unique in-depth insights into workplaces and hiring practices and can easily compare the strengths and benefits across multiple organizations. Our ratings are based on the results of confidential surveys distributed randomly to a representative sample of each company’s current employees – so you can always trust that the results provide a true picture of the workplace. The survey used is the Trust Index© tool from our parent company Great Place to Work®, which has used this survey for more than 25 years to assess millions of employees worldwide.
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Great Rated!™

Great Rated!™ gives job seekers the inside scoop on companies and their cultures so they can find their best fit. Through our Great Rated!™ Reviews, job seekers gain unique in-depth insights into workplaces and hiring practices and can easily compare the strengths and benefits across multiple organizations. Our ratings are based on the results of confidential surveys distributed randomly to a representative sample of each company’s current employees – so you can always trust that the results provide a true picture of the workplace. The survey used is the Trust Index© tool from our parent company Great Place to Work®, which has used this survey for more than 25 years to assess millions of employees worldwide.

DPR Construction Builds Culture That Works For Millennials

The founders of DPR Construction must have had a crystal ball when they launched their firm 24 years ago. The small cadre of engineers that formed DPR embraced a flat culture over a hierarchical one, and that has proven to be a winner with young employees today. Peter Salvati, a member of DPR’s management committee, says the general contracting firm abides by the principle of “what’s right, not who’s right” — that is, listening closely to all employees, regardless of position. “The person with the right answer may be who you least expect,” Salvati says. “The Millennial generation fits in with ‘what’s

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Thanksgiving Shifts? Select Stores Say No

By Kim Peters The Christmas shopping season has now grown so long, it’s officially bumped into Thanksgiving. Macy’s has announced it will begin its Black Friday sales at 6 p.m. on Nov. 27, before the leftovers even have a chance to get cold. Kohl’s and Sears followed suit and will open at the same time. J.C. Penney went a step further and announced it will open at 5 p.m., while Kmart plans to begin its Black Friday push on Thanksgiving before the break of dawn. Even as this year marked yet another encroachment into retail employees’ holidays, it’s also been notable

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The Great Rated! Interview: EY’s Larry Nash On The Transparency Trend

When Larry Nash looks into his crystal ball about the future of the workplace, one thing is clear to him: workplace transparency itself. Larry, Americas Director of Experienced and Executive Recruiting at professional services giant EY, is confident that job seekers and the public will have more visibility into what it’s like to work at organizations. “Transparency will only grow as technology evolves and different social media platforms continue to grow and expand,” he says. “We’re just always increasingly connected.” Nash and EY aren’t waiting for this interconnected, transparent future to arrive. They are embracing it now, showcasing their culture through their

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The Great Rated! Interview: Andy Khawaja On Creating A Workplace For Millennials

Andy Khawaja is young at heart. That may be the simplest way to explain how the card payment company he founded and leads, Allied Wallet, recently ranked as one of the 10 Great Workplaces for Millennials according to a Great Rated! study. Khawaja, 39, started his Los Angeles-based credit card processing company in 2002 after a decade in retail on glamorous Rodeo Drive. As formative to him was a childhood growing up in war-torn Lebanon, which gave him a carpe-diem yet compassionate mindset. He now leads a team of about 1,000 employees, the vast majority of whom are under 35. And

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The Great Rated!™ Interview: Todd Wheatland On The Brand Connection

Todd Wheatland straddles the boundary between employer brand and overall company brand. And to hear him tell it, that line is blurring. The face companies put forward to job seekers is increasingly just part of the overall brand message—making the employer brand more important than ever, says Wheatland, who has a background in both the talent world and the marketing arena. He currently serves as head of strategy at content marketing firm King Content, but spent eight years as global head of thought leadership for staffing giant Kelly Services. A sought-after speaker and one of LinkedIn’s Top 25 Social Media Experts,

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The Great Rated!™ Interview: Kim Peters on Employer Brand

The CEO of Great Rated! talks about the central role of employee surveys in employer brands, how Great Rated! works, and about the growing importance of employer brands in the era of the “naked” corporation. Ed Frauenheim: What is an employer brand? Kim Peters: Quite simply, it is how people feel about working at an organization. You already have an employer brand, even if you’ve done nothing about it. Some people think that you can create a brand in the market that is independent of what your actual employees think – but that isn’t true. Social media has made the internal

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