In Evaluating Your Job Offer, There are Three Critical Questions You Should Address:

Does the offer match your career goals: What is of value to you? What are your priorities? How well does the position fit your “wish list”? Below are factors you may want to consider in evaluating your offer.

Factors to Consider:

• Mock Interview Guidelines
• Nature of work and organizational cultural
• Stability of industry and level of autonomy
• Amount of travel
• Beginning salary and increments of raises and performance evaluations
• Lifestyles of employees
• Stability of organization and quality of higher management
• Support for continuing education/advanced degree
• Level of responsibility
• Geographic location
• Work hours and benefits and variety of work
• Advancement, training and professional development opportunities
• Transferability of skills/experience from job
• Prestige of job or organization

• Do you need additional information about the offer in order to make a decision? If so, stop and conduct additional research or ask additional questions to find the information.

• Call your key contact person from the interview and ask additional questions, or contact alum who works for the organization. If you need a better understanding of the responsibilities and duties associated with the position, call the employer (if they are local) and ask if you can spend a few hours/day observing an entry-level employee in the position you’re considering.

• Are there items you want to consider and negotiate? Perhaps the employer would be willing to review the concerns to see if concessions can be made?

Links

• Cancellation and No Show Policy for Campus Interviewing

• Dress for Success

• The Key to a Successful Interview?

• What Happens During the Interview?

• Ten Rules of Interviewing

• Questions About Behavioral Interviews

• Questions Asked by Interviews

• Checklist for Mock Interview

• Mock Interview Over View