Weigh your job offer – Part 2
Saturday, June 14, 2008 10:17
To recap, the 3 points to consider are:
2) The company’s vision & direction
3) Compensation
2) The company’s vision & direction
To effectively understand your future employer or company’s vision & direction, you will need to do some homework about the company then during your interview, you should ask clarification questions based on your findings. I’ll share more in the future on how to do it when we discussed about interview.
This is something you should do before reaching to this decision making stage, but don’t worry if you have not done so, you still have this final chance. Before making your decision, you have the right to ask and get more information about your future employer.
Typically, you can ask the following questions:
- What is the company’s long term vision and how to stay competitive? (Tips: Company with long term vision will tend to stay longer in business, this is important for your some sort of job security. Typically, company will also have their set a strategy to remain competitive)
- How strong is the company financially and what is the projected growth in this year or the next 3 years? (Tips: This question will let you know the financial health of the company and what is their projection for the next 3 years – typically company have their next 3 years projection growth plan)
- How people oriented is the company? (Tips: A good company will regard their employees as their most important asset, they will have development programmes, career and succession plan, policies on communication and employee welfare, safe and conducive working environment, employee quarterly/yearly satisfaction survey on leadership team and working environment, attractive employee compensation programmes etc – this will give you some idea the environment that you will be working in and how you will be taken care of as an employee)
- Can you please share the history of the company? ( Tips: A well established company has a good historical track record and there must be some values the company is practicing to become what they are now – this question is to give you an idea on how the company was established and what they have done or values they practiced along the way to achieve their success, e.g. there are companies that practice values such as speed to opportunity, teamwork, trust, respect, innovation etc)
Some of these information might be available in the company’s website or company profile booklet. My advice is to do some homework on these above questions before approaching your future employer for clarification. Also not to forget, to mentioned to them that you have done some homework about the company and would like to get some clarification.
After getting all these required information, it is now to weigh them and align it with your career objective (Weigh your job offer – Part 1). But remember, before finalizing your decision, you have this final option to look at which is Compensation. I’ll be sharing it tomorrow.
Stay tune..
Till then..
Take care,
Regards
Yusoff
