On An Offer You Can Say 'No' To: The Job Offer Edition
When seeking new employment, it is easy to want to take any and all interviews, regardless of their merit, the match to your goals and your true interests.
When we go ahead and take these interviews, we lose:
Precious Time you could spend on more productive pursuits
Mental Energy as in your mind you are wrestling with knowing all the reasons it's a bad fit and trying to contort yourself into being/acting interested.
When the Interview with the Company you know you probably should have already Rule Out produces an Unappealing Offer, Under-utilizing your skills, Setting You Up for ambiguous Pay, Bonus Structures, PTO, Schedules, Org Structures, Future Opportunities...and you wonder why their Turnover has been a problem, know these things:
👉Trust your instincts and insights, earlier.
👉Reserve your time and effort for pursuits that align with your true goals.
👉Commit to a process where you make decisions based on these realities and not because the interview or whatever was offered.
👉Immediately thank and turn down terrible offers. Do Not Waste A Minute!!!
👉Even if they acquiesce to your 'demands' they will either Not Agree, Not Live Up to Their Promises and will always, Always remind you of how They went our of Their Way for you.
Whether you need to replace your income quickly or not, these significant time and effort wasters are limiting you, not helping.
Say 'No thank you' to interviews with companies you know are not aligned with your moral/ethical compass.
Do your homework PRIOR to accepting the offer to interview.
Turn down politely requests for opportunities: too far away, ambiguous comp plans, low comp plans, poor structure.
Only accept interviews that have gone through your careful, methodical filtering process.
If offered a confusing, low or uninteresting comp plan, politely decline to go further. Immediately.
Don't let them 'sell' you on rainbows and unicorns when you can already smell the pigpen!
This happens at every level of position and with many, many companies.
Their offer to you is the desperate move.
Also, if they don't put their best offer forward first, what does it tell you about the respect and appreciation for the role you would be assuming?
🎯Avoid predictable traps.
✨You have more options and opportunities aligned with you, but you need your precious time and focus to secure them.
I teach people on the regular how to say 'no' politely and creatively on repeat.
Learn this skill before you end up in another dead-end job- where the person you should be upset with is yourself.
-Laurie
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