Job Hunter Newsletter
Evaluating Your Job Offer
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IN THIS ISSUE:
- Job Search Minute Video - "How and Where Should You Post Your Resume"
- Job Search Tip of the Week - "Evaluating Your Job Offer"
- Education Center - "Hot Industries: Business"
- Help Spread The Word!
- Job Search Links
- Free Job Search Book
Job Search Video
"How and Where Should You Post Your Resume"
So you think your resume is ready for distribution among potential employers? If so, do you know where and how you should post your resume to the Internet? Not sure? Check out our one-minute-video tip:
www.CollegeGrad.com/job-search-videos/how-and-where-should-you-post-your-resume.shtml
CollegeGrad.com features more than 60 job tips in one minute video format. Review them all at:
www.CollegeGrad.com/job-search-videos
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 the offer as given is the very best you can negotiate, will you still accept the job? If not, you will need to take a different approach.
In either case, it is always important to know who is pulling the hiring strings. Not just making the decision, but also making the decisions about the offer components. This is usually the Hiring Manager, but not always. Hiring authorization may actually come from a level above the Hiring Manager. There may also be input from a Salary Administrator or Compensation/Rewards Consultant in Human Resources, although they are usually there for input, not for absolutes. The key is to know who makes the final hiring and offer package decisions. If you don't know, ask. Ask the Hiring Manager, the person for whom you will be working. Remember, it is always in their best interest to make this happen. Now that they have made you a job offer, you have one foot in the door to their company. You have access to information you did not 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 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 many 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"
Education Center
"Hot Industries: Business"
It's no secret that some of the highest salaried workers in the United States are in the business world. Business degrees come in many forms, tackling areas of study as diverse as: finance, management, marketing, human resources, and more. Because these specialties benefit all industries, a business degree offers tremendous opportunity and flexibility.
While associate and bachelor's degrees in business are common, those who strive to make it to the higher echelons of business typically earn Masters of Business Administration (MBAs). An MBA can not only be your ticket into a variety of careers within business, but to higher earning and advancement potential, too. According to PayScale, the average US salaries for MBA holders varies from about $60 thousand to more than $120 thousand a year, depending on the position, but higher management can earn substantially more.
Browse Top MBA Programs Today at:
www.CollegeGrad.com/schools/mba.shtml
- 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!
Job Search Links:
- Searching job postings
- Setting up a job alert
- Post your resume
- Update your posted resume
- Creating your resume
- Quickstart resume templates
- Creating your cover letter
- Career information/exploration
- Employer research
- Top Entry Level Employers
- Interviewing techniques
- Salary info--how much are you worth?
- Job offer negotiation
- 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:
- The #1 entry level job search book ("College Grad Job Hunter").
- It's free.
It's that simple. So don't buy the hype. Read the real information you need for FREE:
http://www.CollegeGrad.com/book
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 is being continually updated at CollegeGrad.com. So the most current version of the book is actually the online, free version.
