{"id":222,"date":"2010-05-27T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T07:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/career-advice\/tips-on-handling-counter-offers\/"},"modified":"2024-10-02T06:30:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T13:30:40","slug":"tips-on-handling-counter-offers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/tips-on-handling-counter-offers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips on Handling Counter-Offers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tips_on_Handling_Counter-Offers\" So you’ve been through the palaver of job hunting, you’ve nailed a great role and you’ve successfully handed in your\u00a0 letter of resignation<\/a>. Your boss definitely wasn’t happy about it (mind you, how would you feel if he was?) but he\u00a0 seemed to accept it ok. Since then, you’ve been rubbing your colleagues’ noses in it and planning the biggest\u00a0 leaving bash the company has ever seen. Then what?<\/p>\n

Dazed and confused\u00a0 <\/strong>
\nA counter-offer is an offer from your current employer to rival the one you have received from your future employer,\u00a0 to convince you to stay. Counter-offers can take many forms. A straight increase in salary<\/a> – usually to meet or beat\u00a0 your new offer – additional company benefits, a sought-after promotion or new job title, additional responsibility,\u00a0 a change in role, more involvement in sexy projects. Or any combination of the above.<\/p>\n

Counter-offers can be confusing. Leaving a job, especially if you have been there for some time, is difficult. Being\u00a0 put under pressure to stay, and having your reasons for leaving challenged, undermined and even blown out of the\u00a0 water, certainly doesn’t make it a piece of cake. Even though you worked hard to get the new role and have been\u00a0 really looking forward to it, you find yourself thinking: maybe I do owe something to my current employer. Maybe I\u00a0 do lack loyalty and maybe the company will suffer unfairly if I leave? (https:\/\/hydrogen.aero\/<\/a>) <\/p>\n

Counter-offers are more common than you think. Statistics on how many times it happens are hard to find. However,\u00a0 while researching the counter-offer issue, one fact just keeps on popping up. Most people who accept a counter-offer\u00a0 have subsequently left their job anyway within twelve months. In fact, a great many are gone within three to six\u00a0 months.<\/p>\n

Reasons to keep you\u00a0 <\/strong>
\nLook at the logic behind the counter-offer. Of course, what we’d like to do is accept it as flattery, a sign of our\u00a0 unrivalled importance and value to our employer, a definite signal that they’ll stretch to serious lengths to keep\u00a0 us.<\/p>\n

What you should be thinking, though, is that besides boosting your ego so much your head looks like a beachball,\u00a0 your employer may have other reasons for counter-offering you. These may include:<\/p>\n