By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Recently, an HR manager from a notforprofit called me looking for advice.
He had interviewed at one firm through a recruiter and almost gone through their entire process when a firm he interviewed with at the beginning of his search recontacted him and asked him to interview for a different position that opened up that fit him like a glove.
Within a week, he was about to receive a job offer and called me in a panic.
“What do I do now? The (second) company wants to know what the first firm is offering.”
“Well, tell them.”
“But the first company will be mad at me.”
“Here’s what you do. Call up the recruiter for the first company and tell them that a company contacted you out of the blue, you met them and you expect that they will be extending an offer and that you are leaning toward them.”
“Oh, my! Oh, my!” He spoke in a very pained way.
“It won’t get any easier if you don’t tell them because, eventually, if you accept the second offer, you’ll have to turn down the first and tell them then.”
“But the client may raise their offer.”
“This is what I call a pleasant problem two good offers. How can you go wrong? But the mistake is not telling the first recruiter about the second offer. It won’t get any easier if you don’t tell them and just surprise them when it is time to turn down the job.”
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