Why I Love Working at Hannon Hill
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011 at 3:00pm -- Holly Wright
As you may know, we are currently recruiting for several open positions at Hannon Hill, so I thought I would take a little time to write about why I love working here so much.
Let me start with the most obvious perks: tons of free food and unlimited vacation time! On my very first day about six months ago, we had a live chef in the office making custom gourmet omelets for Monday breakfast. I had one stuffed with cheese, peppers and bacon. Not very healthy, but I can't think of a better way to get a new employee to immediately love their job! We have free catered breakfast every Monday morning to get the week started off right and free catered lunch every Friday to end it with a bang! The food is different every week to appeal to everyone's different tastes, but a recent lunch highlight for me was a few weeks ago when we had a food truck down at the bottom of the building serving up salads and sandwiches. We also have a break room stocked with all kinds of snack foods--from granola, nuts, fresh fruit and flavored water to soda, chips, cookies and candy--there's something for everyone!
Did I also mention the unlimited vacation time? My teammates (you might call them coworkers at your current job) are a diverse and talented bunch of people with a wide variety of interests outside of work. Hannon Hill understands this and allows its employees to use our discretion and take as much vacation time as we need. We call it a "no tracking" vacation policy because, as you might glean from the name, no one tracks the number of days each employee takes off as long as we are getting all of our work done.
The slightly-harder-to-describe benefits are far greater than the free food and unlimited time off for me, however. I don't want to go all academic on you here, but a few things I learned in my Organizational Behavior class can help explain why I love it here so much.
- First of all, Hannon Hill lets me set my own priorities and come up with my own projects. This varies some from position to position, but the amount of autonomy in my job gives me the power to determine what's important and accomplish that the best way I see fit. It's nice to know that Hannon Hill trusts me to do so.
- Second, I do a variety of different jobs here, from graphic design to vendor relationship management to paid online advertising to working on our organic search engine optimization to managing our social media messages and brand image to writing and editing blog posts. The task variety means that each day, I have something different to look forward to. Again, this varies by department, but I can guarantee that there's never a boring day for a Hannon Hill team member.
- Third, we do quarterly check-ins that provide feedback on performance and help focus employees on upcoming goals. Hannon Hill doesn't give negative feedback but rather focuses on positive and constructive feedback so each employee can find ways to build on their strengths to the benefit of our products and services, and ultimately, our clients.
Finally, the very best thing about working at Hannon Hill is the people I get to see and work with each day. Every single team member at Hannon Hill is committed to producing high quality work, coming up with creative solutions for our clients, and providing top-notch customer service--both externally to customers and internally to other teammates.
If I haven't sold you yet, here are just a few of the other benefits of working at Hannon Hill:
- Quarterly outings - last quarter we had a picnic at Piedmont Park, complete with locally brewed beer, King of Pops and BBQ.
- Generous 401K matching program with a one-year vesting period.
- Company-paid health and dental insurance
- In-office ping pong table, skeeball machine and old school pinball game
- 34th floor penthouse suite in Buckhead
- Scooters, for those quick snack-grab trips to the break room
- Casual dress everyday
- Quarterly volunteer opportunities
- A social bunch of friends to go to lunch or happy hour with!
If there's a position on our careers page that interests you, please take a few minutes to decide whether you'd be a good cultural fit at Hannon Hill and apply to the position.
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