| A counteroffer is a ruthless and potentially hazardous | | | | performed in the past not getting completed and other |
| renegotiation of your salary with your current | | | | peer employees may also be influenced by your |
| employer, which occurs when you threaten to leave | | | | success to look for another position. |
| for employment with a competitor. Although the | | | | If you entertain the counteroffer for even a second, |
| counteroffer is almost always a lose- lose proposition | | | | you will be thrust into the temptation to discard a |
| for the job seeking candidate and the employer, we | | | | careful decision you have made for your best interest |
| see candidates entertain the notion all the time. | | | | and using objective reasoning. |
| When you accept a counteroffer from your present | | | | An attractive counteroffer has three primary reasons |
| employer think about the impact on your current | | | | existing to lead you down the wrong career path. First |
| situation and the long-term future with that employer. | | | | there are your emotions, which are already shot to hell |
| Also consider whether you are truly the winner in this | | | | and stressed out. You will be leaving peers, friends and |
| employment strategy. Many employees who give their | | | | co-workers, which might be weighing on you. Second, |
| 2-week or 30 day notice are receiving counteroffers | | | | there is the fear of change, which all humans are |
| from their current employer as an incentive to stay. | | | | programmed to hate since birth. Lastly there is the fact |
| Before going any farther, think about the horse that | | | | that your current employer seemingly wants you to |
| pulls the cart struggling to reach the tasty carrot day in | | | | stay and this fuels your ego. As a result they feed you |
| and day out. Trust me the horse has it better than you | | | | all the crap you can eat and try to tighten the noose |
| in this situation. Don't be a fool and don't be the horse! | | | | for good this time. |
| These counteroffers and proposals can include an | | | | If you listen to, entertain for an instant, look at, hear of |
| increase in salary, a direct promotion or added | | | | or really consider the counteroffer you will likely |
| responsibility to your job functions, or an often-empty | | | | succumb to it, but know this…it's not your fault. |
| promise of a future raise, promotion or other incentive | | | | You are a programmed human, who will always go |
| within the organization. | | | | back to something you have already experienced, |
| Honestly, if you are good at what you do, your | | | | rather than branching out and evolving into your true |
| employer will try to convince you to stay because it is | | | | self. |
| in their best interest. Their reasons are financially | | | | The decision is yours and yours alone! Take a step |
| obvious because finding and training your replacement | | | | back and trust your instincts that led you into your new |
| will be expensive and time consuming. Operationally | | | | career search in the first place. |
| there may be profit lost as a result of the work you | | | | |