SaaSam

Account Executive

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Another stolen LinkedIn post. Credit Austin Belcak

You just got offered the job, but…

The company offering is #2 or #3 on your list.

You’re still midway through interviews with your top choice.

What do you do?

This tends to be a touchy subject and I’ve seen many different takes.

Here's mine:

As a job seeker, you are the CEO of your life and your career.

Your job is make sure you have all of the information, analyze it thoroughly, and make the best decision for YOU.

The same as the CEO for any of the companies you’re targeting would do.

What does that mean in this context?

Personally, I would be accepting the offer from my #2 or #3 company (assuming there’s a deadline I can’t extend).

Then I would continue interviewing at my top company.

If I don’t get the role at my top company, I still have a good options to fall back on.

If I do get the role at my top, then I take all of the info, I analyze it, and I make the best decision for me.

That could still be sticking with Company #2…

Or it could be rescinding my offer and going with my top choice.

When I give this advice, people naturally say, "but you gave them your word!"

"You're going to burn bridges!"

Maybe.

Probably.

But I've never seen a company save someone from a layoff because they passed over their dream job to "keep their word."

One quarter, there's a keynote about how "we're a family.”

The next quarter 500+ people are laid off.

Your company's CEO isn't hesitating to remove emotion and make the best decision for them.

You shouldn't either.

Get all the info.

Analyze thoroughly.

Then make the best decision for you.

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This guy makes so many cents he's got a dollar. I think the expectation of loyalty is very one sided in most employee-employer relationships. The reality is we should do what's best for us and ours. At the end of the day can you really blame anyone for doing what's best for them?

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CuriousFox

WR Officer

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🦊

This is why I consistently tell you guys to always do what's best for you. No one else has your best interest at heart.

InQ5WeTrust

Arsonist

5

No marketing, mayo isn't an MQL

Where I would be right now if I listened to that advice.

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

3

☕️

As that one guy said: I am the master of my fate.

SaaSam

Politicker

0

Account Executive

Agreed, everyone should be. Not everyone makes the decision to be. I used to be the dude just rolling wherever the wind blew me. Take the first job I got, force myself to stay a certain amount of time out of "loyalty". Took having that loyalty used against me to embrace the fact that I don't owe anyone any loyalty until they've earned it and start doing what's best for myself first.

someoneinsales

Tycoon

1

Director of Sales

It's the same in the sports world now. Players are starting to realize a business is going to do what a business needs to do. Trade or cut any player to sign a better one. So players flipped the script and did what was best for their career in their mind.

Sales people have to have this same mentality. You are always going to piss someone off no matter what you decide. Make the decision that is right you you.

SaaSam

Politicker

3

Account Executive

100% I think that the old "don't want to burn bridges" excuse is way outdated. Yeah, someone is going to be pissed. But nobody is worried about burning bridges when it comes to layoffs. Besides that adage was coined before the era of remote work when "burning a bridge" meant you'd possibly have to relocate to find a place that would hire you. Not so much the case anymore

someoneinsales

Tycoon

0

Director of Sales

At the end of the day, we can all come up with some very valid reason for our decision (family etc) in which no one should really hold a grudge.

Whenever I have put in my two weeks or went back on an offer, I have always said it is better for my family or it is a career move that I can't pass up. Yes I could be making the wrong move but its a move I feel is an important milestone that nothing else can give me.

Most of the time they counter and I just stick to that same phase. They get it and we part ways. Maybe like eachothers LI posts for a few weeks and never talk again.

SaaSam

Politicker

1

Account Executive

Hell even if you don't really have any "noble" reasons to do it I don't think anyone should hold any ill will. If you're a single dude that just wants the better pay to buy more coors you're entitled to making that move. Ultimately the most competitive offer wins and companies should be willing to accept that fact. If they don't like it, they should find ways to be more competitive themselves.

GrindingSales

Politicker

0

Account Executive

Loyalty is like my thing you know...sports teams, managers, family. In my teens and 20's i used to put my 2 weeks in if a manager I loved was ever let go or treated poorly. I used to feel validated in that except I've lost touch with the managers I stuck up for and I've noticed an increasing trend of employers always making business decisions over what is right decisions. Recently, I was laid off during Covid and when I returned out of loyalty they showed how they were able to remain profitable during Covid and made that a testament to the strength of their company. They remained profitable because of the layoffs.

In short, you are right, look out for you and I've learned to stay loyal to myself and my family first and foremost.

SaaSam

Politicker

1

Account Executive

Totally get it. Loyalty is still an amazing trait to have but shouldn't be blasted out to anyone and everyone. Water is a good thing too, too much will kill you.

hh456

Celebrated Contributor

0

sales

I didn't read this. too long.

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