Do You Have Any Other Offers? | JobSearchTV.com
How you answer this question is important because it will dictate whether or not the firm that’s asking it is going to take any more steps with you. Here’s how to do it.
This is one of those tough interview questions and it is do you have any other offers and I think this is a wonderful question a common scenario that comes up as an interviewee where you’re asked about this and let me pose the different situations. You’re on the screening call and you don’t know whether you’ve done well or not. The screener, the HR recruiter who’s screening over the phone or video says, “So, you have any offers right now?” And what they’re trying to find out is, “do we have time to engage in our process or are you pretty much done. I can understand why they want to know this because when I did recruiting I
wanted to know if I put in effort whether I had a chance of earning a commission or hiring a person. So if you’re actually close to something you have a choice at this point and that’s to say, “You know, I am close to something else but I don’t have. the offer yet. What’s the process look like? Could you give me a sense of the projected timeline here. And what you’re able to do is walk through with them what their next steps would be, how long it might take, knowing that if could elongate. After you hear it, you can say, “you know my commitment to you is that if this process starts and I do receive an offer, I’ll let you know and make a decision as to whether or not we should go further. Is that okay with you?” And if they say “Nah,” so you fold So you follow that situation–we’re at the beginning of the screening process.
Now, let’s go to the other end you’re on a third interview, a fourth interview, what have you. “Do you have any other offers?. Are there any competing offers right now?” What they’re trying to do is to figure out how much time they have to still continue to interview, whether or not they risk losing you. And you’ll notice it’s the same logic system but you’re further in the process. You may say ‘I’m close to something else. Yeah I do have another offer.
“How much is it for?” You can tell them or not. “That’s really irrelevant right now. I’m really interested in this opportunity. I’m just gonna simply say if you decide I’m the right person for you and Lord knows this seems like a great opportunity for
Me, I’m gonna encourage you to make you strongest offer. Now they’re gonna follow up and say, “well, why don’t you just accept the other offer?’ So you have to come back with something positive about theirs and act in a theatrical way to make it seem like you’re really excited about theirs because otherwise, they’ll simply say, “okay, bye,” and send you off on your way.
On your side of this, you want to make sure that you’re hearing about other offers particularly if you’re interested in this one and in the other one so that this way you have choices to make and that becomes a separate conversation. So, how do you do it? It depends on where you are in the process, what your expectations are. The one thing I will say is most of you are not smooth enough to lie in interview one or nine say to someone, “I’ve got another offer from a fun one you don’t because if you hear those questions I asked that . . . You’re not to be savvy enough have a response in a situation to be convincing. At which point they can go, “okay. You can take the other offer. No problem” But But But But.
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