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It’s Actually Really Smart to Job Hunt This Holiday Season. Apply to These Roles Now.

Updated 11/15/2021
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Inside LeafLink’s office, as seen on The Muse.
Just because the holidays are around the corner doesn’t mean you need to put your job search on hold.

With the holiday season fast approaching, it’s perfectly understandable to want to slow down your job search. Our advice? We’re still in the middle of the Great Resignation, which means even top companies need new applications now more than ever. Submitting your resume now, when others are mid-Hallmark movie marathon, could help you stand out.

From a sales development representative at quip to an editor at Hachette Book Group to a digital designer at Beautycounter, there are tons of positions available across a range of industries. The best part? Our profiles give you insight into what it’s like to work at each of these companies before you even apply, thanks to employee testimonials. For example, you can read an interview with Beautycounter’s social art director about what drew her to the company. Or hear from a senior consultant about what has surprised him most about working at Baker Tilly and why his day-to-day work excites him.

Keep reading to learn more about these and other amazing companies, and check out their open roles!

Beautycounter is leading a movement to a future where all beauty is clean beauty. Beautycounter is powered by people, and it is their collective mission is to get safer products into the hands of everyone. Formulate, advocate, and educate—that’s their motto for creating products that truly perform while holding ourselves accountable to unparalleled standards of safety.

Why? It’s really this simple: beauty should be good for you. Learn more about how to become an independent consultant with them here.

Biogen

Biogen company profile
Biogen cultureWorking at Biogen

Team members work alongside the best and brightest colleagues from all backgrounds who share an unparalleled passion for caring deeply, achieving excellence, and changing lives. Biogen seeks the best talent with rare and unique skill sets to fuel its innovation and in return offers employees the opportunity to grow and contribute in a niche field. The company is committed to its employees, diversity and inclusion, and environmental sustainability.

quip is serious about its healthy mouth mission. Its team is also tooth-smart and cheeky in the way they design and deliver products, advice, and care services. Just like they turn customers’ daily routines into delightful experiences, the company’s cofounders do the same for work culture, celebrating hard work, transparency, and growth at every level. As dynamic and fast-paced as this company can be, it fuels exceptional creativity, personal accountability, and groundbreaking innovation from all. Leaving egos at the door, quip is hiring brave thinkers, doers, and problem-solvers to guide good oral care habits in every bathroom and dental chair around the world.

Coleman Research

Coleman Research company profile
Coleman Research cultureWorking at Coleman Research

Coleman Research helps thousands of clients get answers to their most critical questions. Rather than spending hours reading research reports or traveling to meet people at conferences, Coleman Research connects clients directly with industry experts. They also facilitate custom surveys and moderated teleconference events, providing clients with additional ways to learn. As the company continues to grow, the relationships they’ve built with their clients, experts, and colleagues remain at the heart of the business.

CoVerica’s mission, boiled down to the very heart of their purpose, can be summarized by the Golden Rule: “Treat others as ourselves.” They try to apply this not only to how they interact with clients, but with their employees as well. “Working hard with purpose, while supporting each other, ultimately generates a better workplace environment,” says Mike Sterlacci, CoVerica CEO and Founder. The company strives to give employees the tools and support needed to be successful so they can fully utilize their natural talents and abilities. By doing this, while also providing higher-than-average wages and a healthy work-life balance, CoVerica hopes to provide meaningful careers where people can feel a sense of purpose in their work and outside life.

LeafLink is revolutionizing B2B commerce—starting with the cannabis industry. The company’s leadership is continually building a community of employees who embrace change, support one another, and deliver excellence. The trust and respect they have for their customers is matched only by how they treat each other, and they are focused on building an inclusive, and collaborative work environment. They celebrate accomplishments and navigate challenges together as a team. LeafLink is growing rapidly and welcomes employees who are driven to go the extra mile, thrive in ambiguity, and are ready to write the next chapter of their careers together.

Chick-fil-A, Inc.

Chick-fil-A, Inc. company profile
Chick-fil-A, Inc. cultureWorking at Chick-fil-A, Inc.

The Chick-fil-A brand is known for its, particularly delicious, original chicken sandwich. Since its founding in 1967, the Company has led with its guiding principle of serving others. Today, Chick-fil-A, Inc. is focused on continuing to innovate using the latest technology to better serve and nourish the local communities in which the more than 3,000+ franchised restaurants are located.

This profile spotlights the Chick-fil-A headquarters (known as the Support Center). The Company believes that work should be full of life and that Corporate employees should be able to bring all of who they are to the task at hand. Chick-fil-A cares for its people and gives them the tools to take on meaningful work for the greater good.

Checkout.com is building the connected finance businesses deserve. The company’s flexible payments solutions help global enterprises like Samsung, Deliveroo, and Adidas launch new products and create experiences customers love. Launched in 2012, Checkout.com now has a team of 1,000 people across 17 international offices. To date, they’ve raised a total of $830 million, with their recent Series C funding round valuing them at $15 billion. And it’s not just what they build that makes them different—it’s how. Checkout.com liberates smart, passionate people to collaborate, innovate, and do their best work—that’s why it’s one of the most valuable fintech firms around—and they’re just getting started. By cutting through financial complexity, Checkout.como empowers companies to change the world.

Remote doesn’t just make it easy for people in countries around the world to work remotely. The company also ensures its people enjoy the benefits of a better work-life balance, surrounded by a team of supportive colleagues—even when they live thousands of miles away.

As a fully remote organization from the outset, Remote encourages its employees to fit their work into their lives instead of the other way around. Remote is a thriving and diverse organization with people from all different backgrounds. No matter how you identify or where you call home, Remote has a place for you. This is a high-growth company with big goals, and its team wants to reach those goals by working alongside happy, fulfilled people.

Founded in 1991, Crescent Bank began as a small New Orleans–based community bank and has since grown to have a presence nationwide. The company is on a mission to leverage technology to provide consumers who may not be served by other traditional banking products with auto lending and savings access.

Crescent Bank prioritizes employee growth and advancement—both as employees and as individuals—through its core values and through the benefits it offers. Its core values include: Be a Team Player, Continuously Improve, Do the Right Thing, Put the Customer First, and Take Ownership.

Hotel Engine’s team aspires to be the best every day. They’re obsessed with giving customers the best experience and they set a high bar to make it happen. That starts and ends with finding and nurturing the best and brightest talent. Great people are their number one investment, and critical to their success today and their growth in the future.

Hotel Engine is not for everyone—and they think that’s a good thing! Here are the key personality traits and characteristics they look for in associates. They call these traits their Hotel Engine DNA, as they are the critical makeup of their culture: Customer Obsessed, Show a Will to Win, Think Big, Efficient and Results Focused, Bias for Action, Act with Ownership, Dive Deep and Be Curious, Insist on High Standards, Simplify for Scale, Together We Thrive, and Master Your Craft.

At Aparavi, they look for employees who have a desire to transform the world of data management. Their teams are challenged each day to think outside of the box and come up with innovative approaches to tackling problems and delivering solutions for internal teams and their customers. The company cultivates a culture of autonomy, and those with an entrepreneurial spirit will thrive.

Globalization Partners is defining the global remote work and employer of record sector with industry-leading technology. They take immense pride in their innovative approach to developing technology to enable a worldwide interconnected workforce. Although they set a high bar for joining the Globalization Partners dream team, they are committed to rewarding performance and ensuring you can bring your unique, authentic self to achieve great things. Globalization Partners is a rare kind of technology company with an equal number of men and women, as well as different nationalities, ethnicities, religions, and identifications. Growth is their mantra, and they want each member of their team positioned to embrace the limitless opportunities.

Cyware is driven by the mission to solve cybersecurity challenges that enterprise and mid-market organizations face. Founders Anuj Goel and Akshat Jain experienced firsthand the gaps that security professionals encounter when combating threat actors and hackers. They knew what was required to solve these growing threats—and to fill this need, a company was born. To this day, Cyware’s mission and solutions come from a place of experience, as well as the desire to help company’s build a collective defense and create digital transformations that make security an integrated element throughout the enterprise. As Cyware quickly grows, they are seeking new team members who will pick up the fight against threat actors and those they target.

Care/of is committed to empowering its customers and its team. Whether it’s helping you find the perfect supplement routine for your unique health needs or supporting you through charting your career path, Care/of believes in a people-first approach and leading with authenticity.

It’s incredibly important to them to build a diverse, equitable, and inclusive space for their team to think differently and push the status quo. And they strive to use this guiding principle as the foundation for how they interact with each other, how they build their business, and how they hold themselves accountable to their core values. They can’t wait to meet you.

Hachette Book Group

Hachette Book Group company profile
Hachette Book Group cultureWorking at Hachette Book Group

Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a leading U.S. trade publisher and a division of the third largest trade and educational book publisher in the world, Hachette Livre. HBG publishes great books for readers of all ages, more than 1,800 new books annually, in all formats—print, e-book, and audiobook—including many New York Times bestsellers. HBG is a dynamic place to work, a fast-paced and fun environment where new ideas in publishing are actively explored and encouraged. HBG is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Boston, MA; Lebanon, IN; Nashville, TN; Boulder, CO; Philadelphia, PA; Berkeley, CA; North Adams, MA; Chapel Hill, NC; and Portland, OR. HBG also owns Hachette Book Group Canada, Inc., a marketing and publicity company based in Toronto, ON.

Ideal Image

Ideal Image company profile
Ideal Image cultureWorking at Ideal Image

At Ideal Image MedSpa, their company values are driven first and foremost by their medical heritage, which prioritizes safety and expertise above all else. They foster a highly collaborative culture filled with people who are inspired and driven with a love for what they do. Team members benefit from involvement within a field that is seeing unprecedented growth—there is uncapped potential within the company. They constantly innovate in finding new ways to democratize the personal aesthetics industry. They appreciate every teammate’s hunger for success and excitement to amplify their impact. At the end of the day, they offer an unwavering commitment to helping real people achieve real results because, at their core, they believe confidence changes everything.

Here at The Muse, we partner with a lot of great companies to bring you insider looks at their offices and awesome job listings. These employers pay us to be featured on the site, but these Muse-worthy brands made this list not just because they want to be included, but because their culture, policies, and employee feedback showed us that they deserve to be.

Think your company should be on a list like this? Learn more and get in touch!

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Rebeca Piccardo is an associate editor at The Muse, where she produces branded content focused on company profiles and employee career stories. Before joining The Muse, she was an editorial assistant at Interval International, reported for the Miami Herald, and worked as a staff writer at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, where her crime and courts beat reporting was recognized at the Society of Professional Journalists’ 2017 Sunshine State Awards. Rebeca holds a bachelor’s in journalism with a minor in international relations from Florida International University and is fluent in English and Spanish. Find Rebeca on LinkedIn or Twitter, or visit her website.

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