{"id":1195,"date":"2012-05-05T22:15:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T16:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/go\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2015-04-08T20:14:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T14:44:16","slug":"compare-job-offers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/compare-job-offers\/","title":{"rendered":"May Day! Confused comparing job offers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Mangoes. Yippie!\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-FDKdkNO0Xu8\/T6VRytzMWYI\/AAAAAAAAah8\/BmiI8aojYfo\/s288\/05052012150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"173\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mangoes. Yippie!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Today my dad bought the first set of mangoes this season. If asked to relate a couple of things to May, my answer would be mangoes, and ever since I started working: appraisals &amp; attrition. While material &#8211;\u00a0screenshot showing the baseline version on tissue &#8211; dates back to 2009, this post has remained queued for several months.\u00a0Just like mangoes taste best in May, a post on choosing jobs has to wait for its own season to deliver maximum value. With appraisals around the corner and attrition already kicking-in, I thought this could help those switching to resolve their dilemma between their current job and offers in hand!<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Baseline version on tissue\" src=\"http:\/\/prasadgupte.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/img_job_decision_criteria.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"305\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baseline version on tissue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Just to set the expectations right, this is a simple decision matrix that allows you to weigh\u00a0options\u00a0against a few well-defined criteria.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Download the evaluation matrix\" href=\"http:\/\/www.box.com\/s\/3bb0a2cca9362692e7a2\" target=\"_blank\">Download Now! (Free)<\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I know huge links like that could seem fishy, but this one is clean. It might just make more sense to those employed in India. HR folks, if you&#8217;re downloading &#8211; this is how we look at an offer!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here a couple of other things that could help you take the right decision<!--more-->:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>the internet<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>The internet is an endless resource of information. In this age it stupid to say things like, &#8216;I don&#8217;t quite understand the profile&#8217; or &#8216;I&#8217;m not sure if the company has products of its own&#8217;. There are tons of website that will give you a sneak peak into organizations &#8211; and some like <a title=\"An inside look at companies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glassdoor.com\" target=\"_blank\">Glassdoor<\/a> will show everything up to salary brackets for a designation. Use it!<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Your network<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>I am almost certain that you have a LinkedIn <a title=\"My LinkedIn profile\" href=\"http:\/\/in.linkedin.com\/in\/prasadgupte\" target=\"_blank\">profile<\/a>, if not please go create one and add a few connections. That will give you entry to a vast network of professionals at organizations you&#8217;re planning to join; if not for someone you already know, it can highlight a connection that links up to them. If you find no luck, it wouldn&#8217;t be a bad idea to shout aloud on <a title=\"My Facebook profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gupteprasad\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> or <a title=\"My Google Plus profile\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/100412772827930672069\" target=\"_blank\">Plus<\/a> asking friends to create a lead or help you with the decision.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 Its great to have a huge network, but don&#8217;t go adding every other person.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today my dad bought the first set of mangoes this season. If asked to relate a couple of things to May, my answer would be mangoes, and ever since I started working: appraisals &amp; attrition. While material &#8211;\u00a0screenshot showing the baseline version on tissue &#8211; dates back to 2009, this post has remained queued for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/compare-job-offers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">May Day! Confused comparing job offers?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[796,146,1000,615,861,797,999,798,582,799,998],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-capital-business","tag-appraisal","tag-career","tag-career-decision","tag-decision","tag-job-change","tag-job-offer","tag-job-switch","tag-jobs","tag-linkedin","tag-matrix","tag-notice-period"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}