 The big tech layer could thousands of qualified candidates to the job market. However, the good news is that there's still tens of thousands of companies that still hiring. But the biggest problem is most of the companies who hiring right now they're not famous, fan companies, Google, Meta, Netflix, and most of companies we haven't heard of and we don't know if they're reputable, if the financial situation is good, and if we accept the offer, are we going to get layoff again within three months? And then you will start the stressful job hunting journey again. This sounds so brutal and stressful, but if you follow the right strategy to select the next top company to work for in 2023, you are able to have no stress and focus on building the right product and serve the right customers. In this video, I'm going to share with you the top five rules to select the top company to work for in 2023. Make sure to stay until the end of this video, where I'm going to share with you the resources to get connected with recruiters for free. Hey guys, this is Dr. Nancy Lee, a direct product and featured in Forbes. I've helped 100 people land their dream PM job offer in fan companies and unicorns startup and continue to get promoted as a product leader. If you're interested in product management course, please go to PM Accenture.io to learn more. If you want to learn the most effective way to become a product manager, make sure to like this video so that I have the motivation to get more free tips like this. Now here are the five rules to select the top company to work for in 2023. Rule number one, join the recession proof industry. Some industries are going downturn during recession, but some industries, they provide very stable services regardless economics going up or down. For example, the healthcare industry actually is hiring a lot of people right now and we have seen like Google product manager join health tech companies as we're speaking. And educational companies also a good one for you to check out right now because when people are laying off, they think about how to upscale themselves so they're not going to get laid off again in the future. I would also check out some type of fintech companies. For example, Intuit is crazy. Everybody pay taxes. So Intuit is owner of TurboTax. Everybody pay taxes and you have to file taxes. So it's a resource everybody have to use regardless economical up or down. So check out those kind of recession proof industry. You're going to see lots of great opportunities and see a stable income and stable job in the coming years. Rule number two, join the revenue generating core product within the company. In a huge company and there are different departments, some departments are responsible for generating the core revenue and core product. For example, our student David Lin who joined Meta and he's working on ads and Meta definitely makes so much money from ads. Even if you have seen the co-workers in other department in Meta was laid off, but his position is extremely safe. Another core product I recommend you guys check it out is a cloud product. For example, for Amazon and Microsoft layoffs, majority of the teams around the cloud product are not impacted because cloud is very profiting business and whoever runs the application on cloud, they are not going to remove the application from cloud. So suddenly and for example, obviously Sherry Wynn who joined Microsoft as a product manager working on Azure cloud product and her position is extremely safe. And even if she just had a baby, well, I've heard several times women told me that they had maternity leave when they came back, they were laid off. So Sherry made a great decision to join Azure within Microsoft so that her position is much safer compared with other parts of Microsoft, 10,000 employees layoff. Make sure to check out the free training from Sherry. We should talk about how she transitioned from software engineer into product management and joined Microsoft. I'm also going to link the video in the description of this video. If you like the tips I provide so far, please make sure to hit the like button because it's the only way that you to offer them recognize me. Rule number three, join the long-term strategic initiative within the company, which is the core revenue generation team is going to impact the 10-year roadmap within the company. Now let me give you specific examples. When I launched the 5GH computing product in collaboration with AWS and Azure, my team was the only team which was hiring during the April 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic when most companies were free hiring because the product we're launching is going to impact the revenue in the coming 10 years. So the CEO said they have to make sure our team continue to grow or the company will suffer in the long run. And during the layoff season in February 2023, Alson L recently joined MATA and because he's also going to work on the long-term strategy initiative within MATA. So do some research regarding long-term strategy initiative within companies. Rule number four is analyze the financial situation of the company. For example, some startups they are VC backed but they never generate positive cash flow. And when the VC funding dries out, they're going to immediately go bankrupt. So therefore I want you guys to ask their financial situation when you interview with those companies. Guess what the VC funding in the last quarter is 50% less compared with a year ago. So lots of startups will never generate revenue, it's going to go bankrupt very quickly. Rule number five study the company culture. One of the goals to join the new company have stable income is that you don't want to get layoff again even if the company's cash flow is stable. Another reason people get layoff was because politics within the company and silos and you don't know how to build a relationship with people around you. So before you join any company, I will look up the employees on LinkedIn to understand who currently is working there. Do they have the same kind of diverse culture and from where you came from? Do they also have people currently working on HMB or more women in the companies? And those people are representing who you are. Once you join the company, you can form a relationship with these people. But what if you're the only female, only minority within the company? It's likely you're not going to stay in the company for long. In the first episode of product insider podcast, our speaker who is the director of product growth as dash talks about the importance of building relationship with other minorities are the women so that they can be the advocate for you as well. So check out more information of our podcast. I'm also going to link in the description as well. A loss of candidates challenge is that even if they have great experience, but they cannot learn the interview or they have no experience and people don't even want to offer them an interview opportunities. What if I tell you that I can connect you with the recruiters directly? I have a great network of recruiters who are looking to recruit the best talent in the industry right now. So I'm able to connect you with them for free and you can directly submit your information in the form right now and link in the description of this video so that whenever we have a perfect match, we're going to connect you with the directors through email introduction. Go to link in the description and fill in the form right now. Make sure to check out the Prime Manager interview questions playlist to get ready for your upcoming interviews and like and subscribe for this channel for more free tips. This is Dr. Nia Sidi from PM Excerptor.io. Talk soon.