While deciding upon joining a new job from multiple options available, there are often times when one opportunity provides you a better salary, but the company is not a very well-known one, and another one that is vice-versa, i.e., a very established brand-name that would be a fabulous addition to your resume, but does not pay as much as the other offer. And if you are presently employed with another firm, this adds on to the confusion. What you need to decide now, is how to choose between the two: better future prospects, or present monetary benefits. Let’s analyse the situation for an unbiased job seeker advice.
As a rule of thumb, deciding between whether you want to go for a better salary or a good position varies from individual to individual, his/her family responsibilities, position in the present organisation, and so on. Let’s take the example of an executive who is presently in search of a new job to leave his present one. A better salary might be on his priority list if he is concerned only about short term or monetary growth. However, if he wants to stick to the same domain in the long term, he would be better off going for an offer that gives him a better brand name, even if it is at a comparatively lower salary or position than the other offer, or the current job. For example, a senior copy writer in a small advertising firm might take up a regular copy writer position at a bigger firm, even if the pay is the same or marginally up, since he knows that the future prospects would be good. Similarly, if he wants to switch over to some other domain, he might accept a job at the same salary, regardless of the level of the firm, since he is looking forward to gaining exposure before going after bigger pay scales.
This is just one of the many cases that require sound job seeker advice. We would be taking a look at all of them in the following posts.
Stay tuned!
As a rule of thumb, deciding between whether you want to go for a better salary or a good position varies from individual to individual, his/her family responsibilities, position in the present organisation, and so on. Let’s take the example of an executive who is presently in search of a new job to leave his present one. A better salary might be on his priority list if he is concerned only about short term or monetary growth. However, if he wants to stick to the same domain in the long term, he would be better off going for an offer that gives him a better brand name, even if it is at a comparatively lower salary or position than the other offer, or the current job. For example, a senior copy writer in a small advertising firm might take up a regular copy writer position at a bigger firm, even if the pay is the same or marginally up, since he knows that the future prospects would be good. Similarly, if he wants to switch over to some other domain, he might accept a job at the same salary, regardless of the level of the firm, since he is looking forward to gaining exposure before going after bigger pay scales.
This is just one of the many cases that require sound job seeker advice. We would be taking a look at all of them in the following posts.
Stay tuned!
