Start Your Story with Graybar

Who are we?

Graybar is a FORTUNE 500 distributor of electrical, communication and data networking equipment. We strive to be the best company to work with, the best company to work for and the best-in-class distributor in our industry. Our 8,500 employees are the key to Graybar’s success.

What makes us different?

As an employee-owned company, Graybar provides competitive benefits and training opportunities that support employees’ long-term growth with the company. Our history of promoting from within and offering opportunities for advancement are just a few of the reasons why Graybar was recently named one of “America’s Best Large Employers” for 2018 by Forbes.

Where are we located?

Graybar has approximately 290 locations across North America. North and South Dakota locations include Bismarck, Brookings, Dickinson, Fargo, Grand Forks, Minot, Sioux Falls and Watford City.

How do we serve our community?

At Graybar, we strive to strengthen the communities where we do business through meaningful charitable contribution and volunteerism. We align our philanthropic efforts with the interests of our employees, customers and suppliers. We take great pride in helping each other and those in our communities in times of need. That’s been the foundation of our business for nearly 150 years.

To learn more about Graybar and our career opportunities, please visit graybar.com.

Graybar is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

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TELL US ABOUT SOME OF THE MOST CREATIVE BENEFITS THAT LEMONLY OFFERS.

A.• Five-year adventure bonus: In accordance with one of our core values of “Adventure,” we give each employee $2,500 and an extra week of vacation to travel internationally on their five-year anniversary with the company.

• Annual 3/2/1 charity donation: Each year, we set aside $6,000 to be donated to local charities. Each employee nominates a charity of their choice, the team votes for their favorite, and top-voted charities get $3,000, $2,000 and $1,000.

• Summer hours: The concept is simple : from Memorial Day through Labor Day, we work a 2/3 day on Fridays, and many folks start their weekends by 3 p.m.

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A.Our current list of perks include: Work anywhere, flexible scheduling, top 25 percent salaries, paid overtime, vacation and paid holidays, volunteer time off, summer hours, health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, paid parental leave, five-year adventure bonus, annual continuing education and development allowance, annual company retreats, 100 percent coverage of hardware/software, annual charity donations, bi-monthly lunch and learns, free snacks and beverages, holiday gifts, profit sharing and wellness challenges.

A real-time update of our perks can be found at lemonly.com/blog/ employee-benefits-lemonly.

MANY OTHER ORGANIZATIONS MIGHT LIKE TO OFFER GENEROUS BENEFITS, BUT WOULD SAY THAT DOING SO IS TOO EXPENSIVE. HOW WOULD LEMONLY RESPOND?

A.It’s more expensive to have people leave your company and have to hire and onboard new employees.

We’ve found that investing in benefits and perks has helped us in the long run with retention and employee happiness, because happy employees = happy clients.

Just last month, 70 percent of revenue came from existing clients. If clients love who they work with and what we produce, they’ll keep coming back for more.

JOHN T. MEYER CEO and co-founder Lemonly

Sioux Falls, S.D. IMAGE: Lemonly

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HOW DO YOU SCREEN CANDIDATES TO MAKE SURE THEY’LL FIT IN WITH LEMONLY’S CULTURE?

A.By being transparent as a company with our benefits and workplace culture, that helps do a lot of the work for us.

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BESIDES BENEFITS, WHAT OTHER SIGNIFICANT RETENTION AND/OR WORKPLACE-CULTURE INITIATIVES HAS LEMONLY PUT IN PLACE?

In addition to a nice list of benefits and perks, we offer a company culture where people are constantly growing by setting new goals every 100 days to help with professional and personal development.

There are many tangible and measurable benefits to valuing company culture, but honestly, the most important reason to me is that taking care of people simply is the right thing to do to. A.

Being in a creative industry, one of the biggest fears our employees have is getting “stuck” and not pushing themselves to their full potential. By creating a culture of continuous improvement, we ensure that both Lemonly and our employees are taking risks, growing and improving.

New ideas are constantly brought to the table for the company because of our goal-setting initiative.

Applicants know Lemonly based on the look of our website, reading our blog posts and following us on social media. We look for candidates who take the extra step to get to know who we are and show us their personality right away with their application, and we ask questions that reflect our culture.

We’ll figure out if people are the right fit for Lemonly, but I want people to believe that Lemonly is the right fit for them.