Tips For Your Next Job Offer Evaluation

By Sharon Hamilton


Companies head hunting for executives or management employees extend offers to potential recruits. They look for individuals with high potential and advanced skills. You are caused to make a leap from your current position. This should only happen after a thorough job offer evaluation to avoid compromising your career chances. This also shields you from regrets in future. Here are important considerations to make so as to guarantee value from the move.

Research on your potential employer before taking the big leap. You can be certain that the employer has searched everything about you by the time he is extending the invitation. Check the values of the company, reputation, its culture and treatment of employees. Today you are being suited to join them, but once you have signed the contract, you become an employee like any other. You therefore need a place you are comfortable and can achieve own goals.

The motivation for work is the gains you get from the position. Understand clearly what the offer entails in salaries and wages. The salary should be commensurate to the position and the industry. Consider where you are moving into and the lifestyle expected of you. By the end of your expenditure, you should have more than is left in your current position and salary scale. Cost of living affects the balance after all bills have been cleared. The balance must be worth the move.

Are there benefits that are attacked to your new position? What are the terms of your leave? How much are you covered in health insurance? Will you get stocks as compensation? Is pension reasonable? Are you entitled to performance bonuses? What is unique about the payment structure you will get? Add the benefits and ensure that they are worth your move.

Consider the level of commitment that will be demanded of you for the new position. The position could include excessive travel and long working hours. This may deny you an opportunity to be with your parents, family, social life or even advance your education. There are jobs where you are required to work overtime, at night and even weekends. Such considerations will inform your decision.

How will the position affect your career prospects? The perks may be attractive for now but hinder your future growth. It could be a complete shift in the industry where you work or are skilled. This may disrupt your progress by making you a misfit in another industry. Any move you make should only be to your favor.

Have the new potential employer assigned you the value you deserve? The perk that will be offered determines this. For instance, you may get a lot of money but have no freedom to perform your duties. You might be denied an opportunity towards self-actualization. Consider the long term value in terms of responsibilities assigned and who you report to.

What terms have been offered for your engagement and sacking? Remember that moving to another company is always an inconvenience. It might require you to abandon friends and social life that you have grown used to. The new company must be ready to compensate for such inconvenience and also not endanger your welfare by providing reasonable exit terms.




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