{"id":533,"date":"2018-07-31T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jobberman.com.gh\/discover\/?p=533"},"modified":"2022-01-28T13:07:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T11:07:17","slug":"accept-reject-job-offers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jobberman.com.gh\/discover\/accept-reject-job-offers","title":{"rendered":"How to know when to accept a job opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">I recently switched careers (into IT from a non-IT job) and completed a certification\/internship program. I live in Tampa and I&#8217;ve been actively interviewing for roughly a month, with a couple of prospects still in the pipeline, though mostly in the preliminary stages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I interviewed for a position and was offered the role.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Pros:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left\">\n<li>It&#8217;s doing the job I want to break into<\/li>\n<li>The technologies are on par with my interests<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a junior role that wants me when it seems most positions are looking for 3+ years minimum.<\/li>\n<li>Casual environment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Cons:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left\">\n<li>It&#8217;s an 1.5 to 2 hour drive each way<\/li>\n<li>The pay is relatively low considering the cost of commuting<\/li>\n<li>The manager seemed pretty bored and disengaged during our interview, and the office was kind of a disgusting mess, IMO. Neither of which really impressed me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I have another interview on Monday with a more local company, so I asked for time until then to weigh both options. I hate the idea of turning down work in the beginning stages of my new career, but I also know that the commute would get real old, real fast, and I would jump at a more local opportunity if it were to materialize.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Part of me feels like it&#8217;s more honourable to turn it down now, avoid burning bridges by quitting in a month or two, and take the chance to keep looking, while another (ruder) part says take the job for now and do what you have to do if\/when another offer pulls through.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Moving isn&#8217;t an option (the amount of time left on my lease and the cost of moving closer would not make sense at this time), and the pay makes holding a second apartment close to the job all but possible.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left\">\n<li>What factors should I consider when deciding if a job I do not really want is worth taking versus turning the offer down in hopes of finding a better job?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently switched careers (into IT from a non-IT job) and completed a certification\/internship program. I live in Tampa and I&#8217;ve been actively interviewing for roughly a month, with a couple of prospects still in the pipeline, though mostly in the preliminary stages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":19183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[821],"tags":[1121],"content_author":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-job-search-advice","8":"tag-active-qualified-candidates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jobberman.com.gh\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jobberman.com.gh\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jobberman.com.gh\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jobberman.com.gh\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jobberman.com.gh\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jobberman.com.gh\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jobberman.com.gh\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jobberman.com.gh\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jobberman.com.gh\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jobberman.com.gh\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"content_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jobberman.com.gh\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_author?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}