By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
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Has a job offer ever left you feeling offended, i.e., because the pay was too low or something else like that?
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Has a job offer ever left you feeling offended because the pay was too low or something else like that?
This isn’t my story because I’ve been self-employed for a long time. But, people emotionally forget that this is business. And as such, as Al Pacino said in the Godfather 3, no, it’s Godfather 1, “It’s it’s business, it’s not personal.” He looked up at his brother at that point when he uh determined he wanted uh to take out a crooked cop and an opponent who tried to kill his father.
So, the very simple thing I would say is if you get emotional about this, it’s because you’ve become emotionally invested in a job. And frankly, you’ve lost your leverage at that point because you’ve lost your objectivity.
Maybe it’s because you weren’t as skilled as you thought you were. Did you do your research about your real value? Now, I’m not saying that you talk to a friend of yours who said, “Oh, you should be making such and such, you know, this particular skill.” No, your friend is is another doofus just like you are, so don’t kid yourself, your friends know next to nothing.
The only people who know your value is the market. And if you have four turn-downs and you get a low offer, there’s a message in that: you’re not as good as you think you are at the value that you’re claiming.
So, take that as information, don’t take it as fact. Take it as opinion, don’t take it as fact. And from there, you have to make a decision as to whether or not you really are worth that value. And there you can talk to a coach, a recruiter—not the recruiter who’s representing you because obviously they have a vested interest in you taking this job—a coach, a recruiter, uh, friends—not not your wife, husband, or partner because they may know as little as you do—but start talking to knowledgeable people in your field about what your real value is.
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ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a coach who worked as a recruiter for what seems like one hundred years. His work involves career coaching, as well as executive job search coaching, job coaching, and interview coaching. He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with more than 3000 episodes.
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