Next Jump hits the mark with employee recruitment

Posted by Janet Smith on October 14, 2008

Today I inadvertently clicked on a link in an email advertisement I was reading, and landed on the website of a company that looks like a great place to work: Next Jump Nation. Their tag line: A new world of marketing is here.

Now I realize that just because Next Jump Nation appears to be a great place to work doesn’t mean that it is. But it probably is.

To start with, while most companies have a mission statement that refers to serving customers, making great products, doing what they do extremely well, or that kind of thing, here’s the mission statement for Next Jump: Our mission is to make Next Jump the best place to work. I read that and thought to myself, “Here’s a company that shares my philosophy that the customer is not number one!”

And sure enough, below their mission statement it says, “Our Focus: People>Clients>Shareholders.”  Then this statement: “Happy Next Jumpers (our people) result in happy clients, which leads to increased shareholder value.”

This site contains an amazing quantity of rare and impressive employee-related content. You really should take a look-this post would go on forever if I duplicated it all. But I must tell you about one more thing I found on the site: a list of the top 10 reasons to work at Next Jump.

The list is composed of ten quotes from ten Next Jumpers. It doesn’t give their names, but it does give their titles. The quotes are great, and in some cases, so are the titles. For example, reason number 7 is from their Chief Fitness Officer, and number 8 is from their Chief Ideation Officer.

Two quotes in particular caught my eye because they reflect something about this company that I believe to be incredibly important: NJ allows—perhaps encourages—employees to take a chance, think outside the cubicle, go out on a limb…even if it means making mistakes.

This one is from the president of the Next Jump Young Leadership Committee: “I’ve learned that mistakes can often be a better teacher than success.” And this one’s from the VP of Product Design: “Next Jump is the ultimate can-do company. We prefer errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”

I’ll end with REASON NUMBER ONE to work at Next Jump, from the company CEO: “There is nothing more rewarding in life than working and playing hard with people you trust, respect and love.”

If I ever get tired of doing what I love here at The Power of Goodwill, maybe I’ll apply for a job at Next Jump!

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