Choosing a Job

Friday, December 14, 2007

Choosing a Job

You have the fortunate problem of having to decide which job offer to accept. You need to evaluate the site, first, to determine if it has the jobs you want before you register. This should be a BIG red flag that the site is not seriously interested in helping you find a job, particularly if the site does not have a Privacy Policy posted telling you what they do with your information.
First of all, make sure you know enough about the organization For example be Suspicious of a site that won't let you perform a job search before you

Register your profile or resume., the job, and the details of each offer to weigh one offer against another. If you lack information, seek it out by asking the employer, researching the organization, and talking to others who work at or are familiar with the organization or job.

Critical Criteria for choosing a job

1: Keep your word. Once you make a decision, stick to it. Do not accept one job, planning to break your word if the other job comes through for you. Journalism is largely based on trust, and if you can't keep your word, people will hear about it. In one case, a reporter who accepted a job at a new paper then accepted a job at a third paper she liked even better. She last both of those offers when editors at those two papers, in different regions of the country, compared notes.

2: Remember what you want. Don't get so caught up in the high drama and flattery of the competition for your services that you forget what you want and sour the better employer or pursue a job that is not right for you. If your preferred paper has made an offer, take it. Don't drag out the other employer just to see what they'll offer. Don't go through a sham interview just because the process has already started. Call, explain and politely withdraw yourself from consideration without wasting of their time.

3: Be careful about playing one against the other. If you seem to be using one offer to leverage the other, one newspaper will feel used by you and the other will be less excited about having you come.

4: Be judicious about how much you share. You do not have to tell the editors where the other offer is or might be coming from. They certainly will not tell you who else they've considered. You may, however, tell them. You might even find it is useful to tell them in explaining your difficulty.

5: You should be able to easily find a way to search for the jobs you want - specifying the location and the type of job (by keyword or some other method of choosing). When you've found a job you like, it should be easy for you to apply for it. If you want to post your resume, that should be an easy process, too. And there should be easy-to-follow directions in case you get lost or confused.

Source: http://www.freeresumesamples.org/samples/choosingjob.asp