Achievement

Setting goals and celebrating wins

You may value environments that emphasise personal success through competence and ambitious goals. These workplaces typically provide clear metrics for success and recognition of individual excellence. The culture tends to celebrate measurable accomplishments and create opportunities for advancement. Work generally involves pursuing challenging targets with clear definitions of success, allowing for regular acknowledgment of expertise and achievement.

Companies that care about achievement

Aware Super
Aware Super is Money magazine’s Best Super Fund and a Canstar Outstanding Value Super Fund for 2023. As one of Australia’s largest profit-for-members funds, we always remember whose money it is and whose future they’re looking after.
Boral
Boral is the largest vertically integrated construction materials company in Australia. Our network includes prized quarry and cement infrastructure, bitumen, construction materials recycling, asphalt, and concrete batching operations. We employ around 9,000 employees and contractors across our operations which span more than 360 sites nationwide.
Rampersand
Rampersand is a leading Australian venture fund, backing ambitious technology companies from idea and beyond. Having invested more than $100m into startups, including Expert360, Cake Equity, Goterra, JigSpace, PredictHQ and 30 others, Rampersand is known for its high conviction backing of the most ambitious founders in Aus/NZ and rolling up their sleeves to help them ramp up. Founded in 2013, Rampersand was one of the earliest of the new generation of venture funds.
Leonardo.ai
Leonardo.Ai is a world-leading content generation platform that enables millions of people to leverage generative AI and unleash their creativity. We've already supported over 19 million creatives to generate content globally since starting in late 2022, driven by the incredible talent of our team in Australia and beyond.
Dovetail
Dovetail is a customer research platform that allows businesses to easily record, analyse, search and share research to better understand their customers.
Red Bull
Since 1987 Red Bull gives wings to people and ideas. Today, Red Bull operates in over 170 countries selling more than 7.9 billion cans annually and growing! Above all, our people remain the essential ingredient in bringing the Red Bull brand to life. Becoming the #1 energy drink in the world is a journey of passion and hard work. It’s about asking ourselves everyday: how can we do it better?
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Achievement and ways of working

Here are a few things you might expect if you’re working as part of a team that values achievement:
  • Rigorous objective-setting and performance management frameworks
  • Regular check-ins to monitor progress and course-correct as needed
  • Comprehensive rewards and recognition programs for high performers
  • Opportunities for peer-to-peer shoutouts and team-based goal achievement
  • Clearly defined career paths and development plans for all employees
  • Sharing of success stories and best practices across the organisation.

Interview questions to ask about achievement

Want to know if the team you’re talking to cares about achievement? These interview questions can get you started.
  • How does the organisation/team set and track progress against its key goals?
  • What are some recent wins? How were they recognised/celebrated?
  • Can you describe the types of career growth and advancement opportunities available?

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