Considering Things Before Changing Your Job

A highly paid job and a towering position in an esteemed organization, this is what any working person dreams of and would like to go for if given a chance. Every person keeps looking around for a good offer even when he/she is working for a good company and is on a comfortable job with enough salary.

If you are in a position where you are working for a good company (or just a normal local company), which is paying you a salary enough to bare your expenses and even allows saving some for the future, you are on a search for a good offer in some unknown/known company with a higher pay scale and a good position and one fine day you get an offer from that unknown/known company to join in at certain post and an attractive salary package (the salary package may be less or greater than the current salary package), in this situation you may get confused that whether you should accept the offer or continue with the current company on current job?

Well, this can be a situation with most of us, and especially when we are planning to change the job for first time in life. In this situation, it becomes very essential to give a serious thought to every aspect of the new and the current job and the company as well. If you are in such situation, answers to following questions can help you in decision-making:

Company Information: Your first move should be, to gather as much information about the new company as possible. Try to find out if you are going for the right company, which will help you in growing financially and technically rather than make you dependent or make you search for another job right after certain period.

Salary Counts: Check out what salary package they are offering you and out of which, how much money you will be getting in hand (after deduction of certain taxes on the salary). You also need to think if your current salary is better than the one you have been offered. If there is a negative difference (i.e. if your current salary is better than the one offered to you), then you should give a serious thought before making a shift to new company.

Future Increments in Salary: Even if your current salary is less than what you are going to get in the new company, just CHECK IT OUT IF YOU ARE GOING TO GET ANY SALARY INCREMENT IN NEAR FUTURE FROM YOUR CURRENT COMPANY?

IF YES, then how soon will you get it?

Along with this, you also need to check out, how long it will take for the salary rise in your new company. This will really help you in making it sure that after certain period in future, you will get a proper salary.

If your current company were about to give you a salary hike, which would be comparable to that of the salary offered by new company and promises that you would get more, then I would ask you not to leave your current company (But make it very much sure that you get the salary hike and other perks on time!).

Experience Counts: As you already have some experience in your current company and those people know you better than the new company people. So if you try to be there and learn some more things and try to get into higher level work, then it will surely be beneficial for you rather than going to new company and starting everything from scratch! WHAT DO YOU THINK????

Where Do You Stand: Just calculate your total experience in current company and find what role you will get in the new company? If the work you will get is going to be of higher level than what you are doing now in your current company, then you surely can GO AHEAD!

What Are You Going To Learn?

Well, that was all about the company shift regarding MONEY matters.

But, if you are really going to learn something good after getting into new company that you cannot learn while you are in your current company, then you surely should go ahead!

BUT ONLY WHEN YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO (OR: IF YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO) LEARN THAT IN YOUR CURRENT COMPANY! AND OFF-COURSE, IT SURELY SHOULD HELP YOU IN YOUR CAREER!

What Are Your Career Prospects?
Try to figure out if you will get a good opportunity in future (in terms of projects to work on) after you work on the current offered project in the new company.

i.e. Try to figure out what your future will be OR what future prospects you will have in the new company? Compare it with the future prospects that you have in current company and choose the best!!!

And finally, if you are confident that you can do better in the new company, just GO AHEAD! There is no need to take anyone’s opinion! Calculate the POSITIVES and NEGATIVES and decide according the outcome!