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Evaluate an Offer
It’s wonderful to be wanted, particularly after being rejected but, accepting a job is much like being married. It’s critical to find a great match, not necessarily a perfect match, but a great one.
The JSO Job Offer Evaluation Matrix can be used to evaluate a job offer in a simple straightforward manner. It will help you take an objective look at each offer, focusing on the dimensions that are most important to you. Dimensions like the match between your values and those of the company making the offer, your skills and those required to do the job, your professional goals and the job’s responsibilities, your personal needs and the total compensation being offered, etc.
Negotiate an Offer
Evaluating and Negotiating your job offer are essential to your future job and career satisfaction. Job seekers all too frequently accept the first offer they receive without any negotiation. This can lead to accepting an offer with too few resources, unrealistic goals, a scope that is too narrow or too broad or unreasonable compensation. Appropriate negotiation can help you avoid these problems and move into a situation that meets your needs.
If there is ever a time to take advantage of the JSO Coaching service, it is when you receive a job offer. Emotions may be high and the stakes are even higher. Having an expert available who knows the process can make a critical difference.
This section describes a positive collaborative process for negotiating all aspects of compensation, responsibilities including goals and the resources needed to do the job.
Getting Off to a Great Start
The old saying, “You only have one chance to make a good first impression,” certainly applies in the workplace. Getting off to a great start will shape the relationships that you will have with colleagues, superiors and subordinates and, in so doing, will establish the expectations that they will have of you. And, of course, if they expect you to do well, they are likely to see you and your work in a positive light.
The JSO Getting Off to a Great Start process is a simple straightforward means for establishing a foundation for success with superiors, subordinates and peers in your new organization. It also includes a technique for check-ins, changes and corrections as time passes.