Hi all,
After a very crap start to the year, things are finally starting to look up - and I've got not one but three job offers! However, I'm having a real hard time trying to decide between them, and I could do with some help or opinions from my fellow Fretboarders if you have the time....
Here's a brief rundown of the jobs:
Job A:
- Consultancy for an agency, using one vendor's software (which is pretty rubbish) that I'm already certified in
- Potential to learn other software
- Taken 2 weeks to get an official offer sent to me (still not arrived, told it's coming by weekend)
- Not sure of salary or benefits at the moment, waiting on email
Job B:
- Again, consultancy role but for a vendor direct. Not implementation, it's part of the best practices team
- Learn new software and become the expert in it
- Good salary (above what I'm on now, although way under what I'm told I should be on by my director)
- Great benefits
- Offer has been with me for 2 days
- Potential lack of growth though
Job C:
- A Director of a new practice in the sister company where I work
- Masses of opportunities
- Learning lots of new software (although no confirmation on training budgets etc.)
- Headhunted for the role
- Salary will be 'slightly above' my current
- However, the role is not confirmed by the board yet, and won't be until start of March
- Potentially just blowing smoke up my arse with the details etc. as no official description yet
- Lots of support from the directors and SVP's I know there
So, I really don't know.... Job C sounds amazing, but if I go for that and decline the others, it might not even materialise. Plus, the starting salary sounds like it would be WELL under what that role would normally get. Job B is also great, and a 'fresh start' with great benefits and potential - but not much chance to move up the ladder.
Job A I've pretty much discounted, but thought I'd put it in there!
Anyone else been in this situation? Any advice?
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My rules (yours may differ): Never take a job with HF > 50%. If the job you're in reaches HF > 75%, quit.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Or better.. tell your current lot that you've got an offer of $X from B, but you'll take C because of team/opportunity/loyalty but you need a commitment of at least $X and something in writing within a week?
C. Make sure they know you have B on the table and what they are offering you, as long as that doesn't let them justify a lower salary for C. Tell them you need to make the move or have something concrete for C.
C sounds the best, you just need further assurances it is happening.
B - Take it. Once you're on board it'll be up to you to generate growth and make opportunities for yourself. A decent company will see the value you're bringing in and give your your head to do it. If you don't think they're decent then don't take it.
C - Sounds good, but you'll always be taken for granted by a company that knows you. It's not personal by anyone, but people just value the new hires they don't know more than the trusted people they do know. You need to leave before you can go back (if you see what I mean). They're just making empty noises until the role actually gets approval and budget.
If you want to be totally cynical, you can take B and drop them like a stone if C actually materialises and is what you want.
Good luck!
A and C are a bit vague as I have yet to receive the official salary notes etc. C is very 'fluffy' as it's a completely new role in a new division.
I'm going to go back to B to ask for a base uplift of £x, and then say to C that I have been offered £x from B - and can they at least confirm this is not unreasonable for the new role there.
Hopefully that'll help the thinking process...!!
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IMO if you can get the job and experience as a director then that sets your new job level from now on. Just sit it out there for a year or so and then move on to the next directors level job, and so on.
Good luck.
I've gone back to Job C's CEO and have requested a rough salary bracket, which he has stated he cannot give. So, I've messaged him one to one and stated that job B have offered £x amount (which is higher than they have, of course), and have asked him if - from what he knows of the other director's salaries etc. - that is the correct ballpark for this new role.
Oh, and I've been told I'll have an official job description for Job C by CoB tomorrow.
My thinking is that I should hopefully get offered more on Job B now, get a rough idea of Job C's range of salary, and it gives me a bit of space. If a job description for C is not with me by tomorrow, think that shows something.
Man, what a palava!