are you weighing multiple job offers and
you're just not certain which direction
that you want to go in my name is Bill
Benoist I'm a certified professional
career coach here in Silicon Valley and
I recently worked with a client who was
in a similar situation and I wanted to
share with you an exercise that I did
with this client on helping to make this
decision so a little bit about my client
he was a single dad he was raising a
ten-year-old daughter by himself and
he'd been laid off twice in the last two
years and the second layoff was
extremely difficult for him because it
was not just him but he also had his
daughter that he needed to look out for
and so there's a little bit of fear in
him the first position that was offered
was a position with a very stable
company that had been around for a
number of years about technology firm
the other company was actually a
start-up but what excited him about this
position was two things one it paid 50%
more than the biotechnology firm and
there was no way that he was going to be
able to negotiate a salary like that
with a biotechnology firm the other one
was that he was only going to be an
employee number 18 with a company so he
was gonna get to wear a lot of hats he
knew that it would probably develop his
career a lot faster and he saw that as
probably a better career move but he
wasn't certain because it was a startup
company so what we did we did something
called a hierarchy of criteria what this
is is where you take a sheet of paper
and on one side of the paper you write
down 13:13 of the most important
elements of work of a job for you and so
he goes down this list and by the way
when you do this usually stop it around
number four or five because it's really
hard to make it there well the most
important thing to me is salary is
nudists benefits is a good boss and you
get down to about number four maybe five
and it's like you want me to do 13 of
these but give yourself a few minutes
because you will start going through and
it will start coming to you and you'll
get through 13 of these but this is the
exercise that I had for him was to go
through what was most important so all
of these areas on the left-hand column
there what was most important and then
what I did is I said all right take a
look at these 13 if you could only have
one of these only one of them which one
would it be just one and it's just one
just one but he crossed off he selected
one and he crossed it off and he put it
on the right-hand column so that left 12
items on the left side and I said now
take a look at these remaining 12 if you
could have one of these which one would
it be and there's only one you can only
take one of the twelve and he struggled
a little bit and it wasn't like the
first one or two I think it was like the
seventh item down he picked and he moved
it over into the right hand call and he
crossed it off on the left and then I
had him do it again I said okay there's
now 11 left if you could only have one
of these 11 which one would it be and
again took a little bit of time he
selected the one that was most important
to those 11 and he put it over here and
we did this all the way through and it's
about a half-hour exercise because it's
a lot easier said than done but what it
did is it gave him a very clear picture
of what it was that was most important
to him and you know what was number one
on the list stability which I'm not
surprised out there but salary was like
number four
it was work-life balance was one and
stability was one benefits was one and
this is what helped him make his
decision and you guessed it he took the
the biotechnology firm that had been
around for quite some time
and that's the one he went after so it's
called a hierarchy of criteria exercise
I have that exercise linked in another
video but if you are dealing with
multiple job offers you can't just say
well I'm gonna go with this one because
it's gonna pay more because it's gonna
have more benefits or because it's
closer you need to look at your overall
core values out there and make your
decision based upon that you're gonna be
a lot happier so I hope you found this
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