After a job interview, here are the questions you need to ask *yourself* before accepting a job offer. Ready to accept the offer, but want to ask for more money? Chelsea teaches you about negotiating in this video:
Hey guys it’s chelsea and a shirt that is not pulling a part of the buttons and therefore humiliating me in front of all of you and today i’m here to talk about careers graduation time is pretty soon which means that for a lot of you it’s going to be the first time that you’re really entering the job market as an adult and of course a lot of this time can mean
Those intrusive thoughts of like will anyone offer me a job will i land a job will i be the last of my friends to land a job and all of those other questions that can really cloud the other part of the conversation which is what is the right job for me obviously any full-time job that you take is going to be the defining part of your income but it’s also the
Biggest factor in your quality of life your free time and what you’re building toward in your career now we’ve discussed on this channel before that’s between things like side hustles and learning new skills your nine-to-five or your full-time job isn’t the totality of your professional life but it would be silly to think that it’s not a huge huge part of it
Which means that when you’re picking a job you must resist the temptation to just take the first thing offered to you and more importantly think really critically about what the right job for you is now it’s not a perfect system but we’ve come up with seven key questions that will help you decide the right job for you and avoid making a mistake and we recommend
That you ask yourself these questions before accepting any job number one am i clear on the full description of this job and what is expected of me in this role now this might sound like an obvious point but quite frankly there are a lot of jobs out there that are not really named in the most obvious ways for example there might be a role with digital in the title
Whose work only is comprised of maybe 30% digital stuff or there might be a job that you start out at that actually has a title like director or manager a lot of companies especially smaller companies have really varying titles for different jobs and also really varying expectations of what the role entails it’s very important that you get a good understanding not
Just of the overall role but really what a day on the job will look like you must be extremely sure that you’re not only prepared to do the work but also interested in it for example i have a friend who works in environmental issues who took a job that she thought was going to be mostly advocacy that really ends up being more of like a customer service hr job she
Spends like 60% of her day on the phone which is something she never anticipated things like this can be avoided if you get a very clear picture of the jobs gritty details number two do i know if the salary or rate is competitive when i got my first salary job offer i gave myself a huge disservice by not even looking on like glassdoor or industry blogs to see what
A competitive rate for my particular role was and this is a huge factor in why i didn’t negotiate because i wasn’t even aware of what an appropriate negotiating starting point would be even if you’re very happy with the offer on first glance always do yourself the favor of making sure that it’s a competitive rate in your industry even if you can’t change it it’s
Always very important to know where you stand for if and when you might be getting another job number three am i aware of the clear and attainable benchmarks on which i will be judged pretty much every salary job is going to come with some form of performance review benchmark yearly bonus system what-have-you basically there are always going to be metrics by which
Your employers are judging whether you should be getting a raise or a promotion or a bonus or frankly movies and leaving the company if you don’t know where you stand and tangible ways to get in a better standing you will always feel like you’re drowning at your job so make sure you always get a very clear picture of what the benchmarks are for your role you have
Things like sales goals or projects that need to be completed or basically any tangible things around which you can structure your work and effort my fiance likes to give people on his team a good piece of advice that he once learned he says your job performance will be judged on a few well-timed sprint’s throughout the year and the rest of the time you should be
Walking basically you should know when it’s really important to put in really concentrated effort and the rest of the time you should be focused on not burning yourself out or spreading yourself too thin if you burn yourself out by over working on projects throughout the year that are not very important to your employers and then have no energy left for the few
Important things that’s what you’re going to be judged on number four what kind of non wage compensation am i getting from this job this is everything from your paid time off to your 401k benefits to your health insurance to maybe even things like being able to work remotely sometimes basically it’s all the ways your employer can compensate you and increase the
Benefits of your job that are outside of your wage it’s very important that you not be totally distracted only by the number on the bottom line of your salary because for example something like $5,000 extra per year frankly may not be worth like not really good time off not really good health insurance no 401 k mas like these things all matter a lot more than
You think they will and it’s easy to forget about them when you’re getting distracted by a number so make sure to take all of those things into account number five what is the work/life balance like at this job and how important is that to you basically long story short there may be some companies that don’t compensate their employees as well but they have awesome
Reputations for great work-life balance –is for their employees and believe it or not that’s actually often a bigger deciding factor for people than just the salary alone and there are tons of websites where you can find information about this including glassdoor and we’ll link a few more in the description it’s not always something that you can ask about outright
In the interview but it’s definitely something that you can find secondary information about in ways like googling getting a really solid picture of what the work-life balance is actually like for employees will be a huge deciding factor in a long term job this can often mean things like hey people arrive not as a crack of dawn and don’t leave at midnight or we
Have summer fridays or we have good maternity leave or any of those things if that’s something that’s important to you be honest with yourself about that and make that a huge part of the search factor that being said if you’re like i’m 24 i’m trying to work a job 12 hours a day for a boss who hates me and their life because i’m trying to really climb up this ladder
Hella fast then fine take that job number six are there opportunities for continued learning at this job going back to my friend whose job in the environmental sector is not exactly what she thought it would be a huge part of the reason that she’s probably going to stay a few more years is because they essentially pay for her to get a master’s degree more and more
Companies are using continued learning and skill building as a way to not only attract people to the job but to keep them longer for example if your 10 year plan you want to be working a job that will require a master’s degree that may be the cue to take a job now that you’re a bit less excited about that but which will offer to help you do that using continued
Education not just as a form of compensation but also a way for you to kind of zigzag around the career ladder without putting yourself in crazy debt it’s a really really good way to look at it number seven is this a company i would feel proud to work at so funny story a few weeks ago i was in an airport bar having a bloody mary which fun fact is the second best kind
Of bloody mary that you can have after one actually in the sky and i met and started talking to a woman who was sitting next to me we started talking about her job which she really enjoyed and it’s like they were really treating her well i mean she was on what seemed to be kind of a luxurious business trip but when it actually got to the subject of the company
Itself she started to get really weird long story short she worked for walmart and she was like yeah the terrible company but what am i supposed to do essentially she acknowledged openly that she was making a bit of a deal with the devil because she doesn’t all agree with them in terms of business practices but they treat her so well as a high-ranking employee and
It really stuck with me because was jarring to see someone who took such pride in their actual work but such shame in the company that they were doing that work for and at the end of the day i don’t think i could ever do that or would encourage someone else to i know what it’s like to work with a company you don’t always agree with and it’s bad enough when it’s
Just minor differences having to deal with feeling ashamed or embarrassed or even angry with the company you work for is something that no one should experience if they’re not worthy of your respect they’re not worthy of your hard work so make sure that it’s the kind of place that you would be proud to tell anyone about whether it’s your parents or a stranger at
A bar remember that the job search is not just about the offer it’s about your acceptance and that acceptance being based on a really good idea of who you are and the kind of work you want to do so as always thank you for watching and don’t forget to hit the subscribe button and to go to the financial diet calm for more bye
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