I am applying for another clinical support staff position (think technician/MA and similar) and after some healthcare experience over the years I have concluded that I am not always good at spotting the red flags hiding among the sparkle of a shiny new job offer other than the most blatantly obvious signs like low non-competitive pay, no-benefits positions, abundant signs of high turnover, disturbingly high hiring bonuses, and any job posting with "Rockstar" in the title.
I've learned that hiring management who appear kind, understanding, and supportive are usually just lizard people who believe everyone is replaceable and the only thing that matters are numbers and productivity with no regard for work-life balance or empathy for employees who--for whatever cruel twist of fate--fall on hard times. I've seen people who are genuinely competent, caring, and overall excellent in what they do get fired over the most understandable, easily resolvable, or inconsequential things like clocking in five or ten minutes early when policy dictates that all employees must clock in at exactly the same time, or after an extended medical leave for legitimate, documented health conditions, while the toxic, gossiping employees who put in half the effort somehow manage to stay.
While there is nothing wrong with putting your best foot forward with your strengths in a job interview I would never straight up lie about something and would never want to take a job that hired me because I lied about my experience, skills, or work style. I also believe that while poor management seems to be an epidemic and may to some degree be inescapable, especially in corporate healthcare, there are still good places to work in healthcare with day-to-day work relationships and culture in a healthy, functional, and communicative workplace dynamic even when it is still inevitably filled with a natural array of challenges...but it is more difficult to detect what truly lies behind the curtain when you are being interviewed. I often look at ratings on multiple sites but take it with a grain of salt because good employees will give lower ratings to poor companies, but bad employees will give bad ratings to good companies, and bad employees may also highly rate bad companies they thrive in which kind of destroys my trust in the integrity of the rating system altogether.
What are some red flags and green flags for jobs and interviews that you look out for? Specifically, I'm looking for the more nuanced signs a workplace may be a bad or good place to work. Are there questions you ask in the interview to suss out the real workplace culture? What are your deal breakers and how do you know when an offer is too good to be true?
I also see some good looking jobs that have few to no review which in some industries may be a red flag and an indication a fake job, but in healthcare, with an increasing population in the area where I live, this is likely to be more common. While I would be interested in growing with a new company rather than trying to fit into a well-established company that is not always friendly toward new people, it can be even harder to know whether it will be a good place to work or not due to their lack of track record. I would be interested to hear your thoughts!
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