5 Things to Do When You Get a Job Offer
July 27, 2010 by admin
Filed under Job Search
In your excitement about getting an offer, take care you don’t say yes until you’ve done the following five things:
1. Ask for the offer in writing. Always, always, always get every detail of a job offer in writing, if you want those details to be respected. Otherwise, you have little recourse if you start the job and notice that the insurance premium that they told you would be covered actually isn’t, or that the relocation stipend they mentioned suddenly shrinks. (Even just an E-mail outlining what’s been agreed to is fine. Or you can send your own summary, asking them to write back with confirmation. Just get it in writing on both sides.)
2. Ask any outstanding questions you have in your head. If you don’t feel like you have a good understanding of the manager, the culture, or the expectations of the job, now is the time to ask. You don’t want to learn two weeks into the job that the manager believes fear is the way to motivate people, or that the office culture is very formal, when you like cultures that are more casual…
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