How to go about evaluating and negotiating a Job Offer

Once you have landed a job the hardest part is to decide whether or not you should accept the job, How should you go about assessing the benefits as well as salary and how to try to get a better deal and what is the best way to decline a job offer.

Here are a few tips to go about the whole process of evaluating the job offer that you might have just received.

Training your Mind

You must understand that receiving the offer in the first place means that the job search process has reached the next level. The aim of the interview is to obtain the offer and pass all the rounds diligently. Then comes the stage where you can weigh that offer and negotiate it with your new employer. Even though the job is yours, if you want the role, you must be enthusiastic and motivated during the whole process. By sounding doubtful and questioning the proposal, you will be sending the wrong signals. It will sound as though you are not sure that you want the job. Recruiters need to see and think that you are really committed.

Be Logical

Now you need to focus on what is important for you, both in your professional and private life and then evaluate the offer. In the end, money is one of the key factors in job satisfaction. As a result, it all comes down to being satisfied to attend office and making X amount of money OR hating your job and making X into 10% of the money.

Here are some important factors to take into consideration as you evaluate the job offer.

• Salary: Even if the amount of money which has been offered might be sufficient to live on, you need to find out if that amount is worthy of your skills and if it is the same as what other similar companies are offering.
• Job Profile: Job satisfaction is a very important aspect which you must take into consideration; so it is important to derive that from the offer which is presented. So you have to be fully aware of all the various tasks that would be demanded of you as a professional and what tasks you do not want to be a part of.
• Vacation & Benefits: Vacation time and the ability to work at flexible hours is an increasingly important benefit. While health benefits are usually a standard-issue, additional paid time off could be negotiated.
• Other options: Even if you don’t really have other job offers in your kitty, you need to start considering other possible job offers as well. Evaluate the offer in terms of the cost and time that will be consumed to start the job search process again from scratch, or if staying in your present job is better or awaiting what other offers might present themselves to you, later on, might be more fruitful.

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