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]]>No, you shouldn’t take a job offer you don’t desire in an ideal world. But because life is messy, there are times when it is the only way to reach where we want to go.
It is quite acceptable to accept a job you don’t want if it means getting the experience or pay you need, but it is equally acceptable to decline a job offer if it means getting a position you don’t want. While choosing whether to accept a job you don’t want can be challenging, the following advice can help.
Whether it was their first paying employment in high school or a job that acted as a stepping stone to the job they wanted, most people have worked a job they weren’t fully delighted about.
Even if you’re hoping it’s just a short-term chance, you should still accept the job if you need the money, benefits, or any other incentives it might offer. This employment might give you work experience in addition to giving you what you need.
Think about the numerous ways this job might have an impact on your professional path. Any job you work in might leave you with beneficial experience that can help enrich your professional career in the future.
Accept the work if it has a clear trail of prospects that will lead you in the direction you wish to go. You don’t have a lot of leeway to be choosy when you don’t have much experience. Large professional dreams are feasible, but you must be clear about the type of experience you possess to qualify for your dream position.
Don’t discard a job you don’t want too hastily if you can see it opening doors to a future position you do want. Accepting a lesser position job in the field you aspire to work in can open up the right experience to pave the road to your ideal job.
It’s acceptable to decline the offer and express your concerns to the interviewer if, after several rounds of interviews for a position you believe would be a good fit, you simply feel that you would not fit in well with the company culture.
It’s preferable to explain why you’re declining the position now rather than accepting it and departing shortly after if you can tell there won’t be a strong cultural fit from the start.
It’s likely that if you’re applying for entry-level jobs, you want to improve professionally and perhaps even receive a promotion to a more senior position in the future.
It’s acceptable to discuss this worry with the hiring manager as a cause to reject a job offer if you learn through your interviews that the company either rarely promotes these jobs or has little to no room for development.
Many job offers are turned down due to conflicting expectations regarding pay and benefits. It’s not unusual for you to reject the offer because you won’t often learn the specifics of your pay or perks until the employment offer is extended to you.
The hiring manager should understand if you are honest with them about your expectations versus the actual income and benefits of the position. Moreover, he may even be able to alter something to suit your needs!
Deciding to accept a job offer you don’t truly want might be challenging, but it doesn’t have to be. Knowing what you want in a job before the interview can help you be as honest as you can be with the interviewer right away.
Recognize that a lot of work goes into selecting a candidate for a position, and show your appreciation for the company’s time and the chances it provided. By doing this, you prevent the employer from feeling as though they wasted their time, regardless of whether you choose to accept the employment or not.
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]]>For any given job opening (in Canada or elsewhere), hiring managers reportedly only seek interviews from the top 2% of candidates [1]. This puts a lot of pressure on qualified applicants who are not good at demonstrating it on paper.
Consequently, standing out as a top-tier applicant requires training your application skills to craft application materials indicative of both fitness and value and create a polished and well-practiced interview presence.
To increase their odds of acquiring a job, candidates often apply for positions that do not match their expectations for pay, job level, job activities, or commuting time. However, candidates who are overqualified or overly-willing to accept pay cuts or long commutes actually diminishes a candidate’s chances of success.
Moreover, these job search decisions are oppositional to “career adaptability” — which involves developing a sense of curiosity, confidence, and control-acceptance while maneuvering through the job market.
The most inefficient job search practices include:
In each of these cases, hiring managers are likely to rule out applications immediately and as many as 43% of hiring managers consider blacklisting applicants who practice the above-listed behaviors.
Yet the vast majority of job seekers conduct highly inefficient job searches, leading businesses of all sizes, across all industries, to receive an overwhelming number of applications from unqualified candidates is their greatest recruiting challenge.
It follows, then, that candidates who identify job openings they are truly (or very-nearly) qualified for immediately stand out.
While un-qualified applications are off-putting to hiring managers, nearly two-thirds of new hires do not fulfill every single qualification for their position.
That is because 84% of hiring managers will hire an under-qualified candidate if they demonstrate a strong fit for the position in terms of the soft-skills required and the corporate culture in the workplace. This underscores the importance of focusing on soft-skill development as a critical way to offset minor shortages in an applicant’s hard skills.
The soft-skill hiring managers look for most in both well- or under-qualified applicants is on-the-job autonomy. That is, employers value personnel who analyze and modify their own at-work behaviors to create better outcomes (like being more productive or more satisfied, or doing better quality work).
Even in job market sectors where there is little practical autonomy, recruitment still prioritizes hiring applicants with these types of self-management skills (which includes stress-management, self-confidence, and persistence).
The popular adage that landing a job depends largely on “who you, not what you know” holds (to some degree) true across most industries. Today, this applies to both in-person, online, and past-employer networks.
That is because networking grants job seekers access to the “hidden job market” — that is, job openings that are not publicly (or widely) advertised. In fact, between 37%-87% of new hires find out about their job via either social or professional networks. This makes networking a key tool for standing out in a crowded job market.
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