Archive for Counter Offer

5 Reasons Counter Offers Can Ruin You – Part 2

In a previous blog post Titled 5 Reasons Counter Offers Can Ruin You, I shared a tail of a friend of mine name Wendall.  It was back in November 2009 that Wendall consulted me about a great opportunity at hand.  He had been passively looking to make a career move (80% of people actually are [...]

Resignation Letter – Is it right?

This site has samples of different types of employment transactional correspondences.  The more I observe people to people interaction, the more I am realizing that we all have quite significant communication issues.
As people our firm is working with get different careers, many of them have to do the dreaded putting in of their two week [...]

5 Reasons Counter Offers Can Ruin You

I decided that I would dedicate Post #100 on the new blog platform The Interview Guru Blog, to be something special.  A topic near to my heart is the Counter Offer.
So is accepting a counter offer good or bad?  I have always heard that it is bad but it seems so enticing.  There are so [...]

How to NOT get a job

This news report hit the streets with many mixed feelings.  I am sure that we have all probably thought about doing something like this but never had the guts to actually do it.  This sue happy lady in NYC (of course it was a New Yorker) sues her college because she did not get a [...]

The Counter Offer…The Burning Bridge

Counter offers are so tempting.  Should I accept one??? This past week I had the opportunity to witness from an outsiders perspective a friend of mine and his counter offer experience.  I have to say that in all of the studies and my previous posts, we learn that accepting a counter offer is good enough as [...]

Should I Accept a Counter Offer?

When is it right to accept a counter offer?
According to businessweek, forbes and any other employment professional, accepting a counter offer is detrimental to any professional career.   Good recent example
If everyone seems to know this, then…

Why do individuals still accept counter offers?
Why do companies extend counter offers?

I have learned that companies in general [...]