Interviewing at an agency that’s mainly project base. Is there a trick to finding their profit/revenue from prior year to see how healthy the agency is? Just want to do my homework & not as simple as pulling an earnings report.

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This isn’t great but what I do is I get a free trial of Linkedin Premium. The Insights tab on a company then will show the year over year people growth versus turnover in detail and that can hint around their revenue and overall health

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that's an interesting approach, I hadn't thought of tha

Just ask how many layoffs they have each year. That’ll tell you

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Happy to take a screen shot and post for you.

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You can just ask in your interview. How did you manage covid? Did you have to lay off anyone? How healthy is the business? What does your pipeline look like? How many of your project-based clients are repeat clients? It doesn’t hurt to do background sleuthing but honestly, these are all reasonable questions to ask. I know I’ve done so and no one’s ever flinched.

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