Things to Consider Before Accepting A Job [4]

After sending out carefully-crafted cover letters and resumes and acing multiple rounds of job interviews, the payoff is here: a job offer. Time to celebrate? Not so fast.

When considering a new job, it is important to make sure the grass will truly be greener on the other side. Two important phone calls will likely occur before the deal is sealed: The first, in which you’ll be offered the job, and the second, when you either accept or decline the offer.

There aren’t so many things one should consider before accepting a job offer, you might say, since nowadays it’s really hard to even get a job in the first place.

However, here are some really important things to seriously consider before accepting that job offer.

10. Your Lifestyle

Before accepting a job, you need to think about the future too. Life is spectacularly unpredictable, and just weeks after accepting a job that has a perfect pay rate for you to live on as a single person, it might no longer seem like such a healthy wage if a new partner and family are lying in wait around the corner. You can’t always plan when you’re going to fall in love and have a family, but you can plan which job you’ll take so that you have some insurance cash to fall back on if things turn chaotic around the corner.

11. Career prospects

Try not to hurry and think about your career prospects if you accept that position. Will you be able to climb the career ladder or will you be stuck in the same position for the next five years?

Is that company growing or expanding? By not being able to promote, you’ll risk becoming de-motivated over the years and this may lead to depression or even to other affective disorders.

12. Start Date

Before accepting a job offer consider if the proposed start date is suitable. Often employers are able to delay your start date, particularly if the position you have been interviewing for is a graduate scheme with a large annual candidate intake.