Job Hunter Newsletter

Evaluating Your Job Offer

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- Job Alerts

Do you have a job alert set up yet? If not, you are missing out on a large number of job opportunities.

CollegeGrad.com is posting as many as 1000 new entry level jobs per day. If you haven't searched our site for jobs lately, please do so today:

And if you have not set up a job alert, now is the time to do so:

...by setting up a job alert, you will be informed via e-mail whenever a new job is posted at CollegeGrad.com that meets your criteria. Be the first to know about new opportunities!

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- Job Search Tip of the Week, by Brian Krueger, author of "College Grad Job Hunter," the #1 book for entry level job search:

"Evaluating Your Job Offer"

If you have a true job offer in hand, the first thing you need to do is decide whether the offer is acceptable to you in its present form. In other words, if this is the very best you can negotiate, will you still accept the job? If not, you will need to take a different tack.

In either case, it is always important to know who is pulling the strings. It is usually the hiring manager, but not always. Hiring authorization may actually come from a level above the hiring manager. There may even be input from a Salary Administrator (a/k/a Compensation or Rewards) in Human Resources, although they are usually there for input, not for absolutes. The key is to know who makes the decisions. If you don't know, ask. Ask the hiring manager, the person you will be working for. Remember, it is always in their best interest to make this happen. Now that they have made you an offer, you have one foot in the door to their company. You have access to information that you didn't have prior to the offer.

While salary is certainly the most important element of a job offer, it is by no means the only point of consideration. The total package includes all of the benefits and other "perks" that are provided to you as an employee of the company. One of the biggest errors that many college grads make in evaluating an offer is to look exclusively at salary as the measure of acceptability. Benefits seem to be an ethereal element that will never actually be used. The Invincibility Factor ("I'll never be sick, disabled, die, or need to get my teeth cleaned") runs high among most new grads. If you have not been provided a formal benefits package to review by the time the job offer is made, ask that it be sent to you. If you are given the information verbally, take copious notes and ask clarifying questions on any areas you do not understand.

Next newsletter: "Evaluating Your Benefits Package"

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- Help Spread The Word!

Do you know of someone who can benefit from the information in this newsletter? Simply forward this e-mail to them and tell them to subscribe at http://www.CollegeGrad.com/newsletter. Thanks for spreading the good word!

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Job Search Links:

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- Job Search Book Online

There are at least two other entry level Web sites that offer books on job searching, proclaming that they will tell you everything you need to know about entry level job search.

However, there is a very important point about these books they don't mention up front: they cost money.

At CollegeGrad.com, we give you two things they don't:

    1. The #1 entry level job search book ("College Grad Job Hunter").
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It's that simple. So don't buy the hype. Read the real information you need for FREE:

Don't ever pay for books or reports or resources of lower quality when you can access the very best quality information for free.

P.S. Yes, you can buy "College Grad Job Hunter" in hardcopy format as well at Amazon.com for $15 (actually, 30% off that price), but the online version is better. Why? Because the version at Amazon.com (the 2003 edition) is being continually updated at CollegeGrad.com. So the most current version of the book is actually the online, free version.

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