Should I Accept a Counter Offer | POINT BY POINT

When you're constantly feeling down at work, what do you do? You update your CV, right??

It might be because you are feeling undervalued or underappreciated. Maybe the workload is way over your capabilities or the work-life balance doesn't seem to find an equilibrium. The money suddenly is not enough and you're feeling stuck and see no light at the end of the tunnel.?

You start applying for new jobs to check the pulse of the market, to see exactly what's in it for you. Even more, you receive messages from recruiters in regard to new openings at their company. So you decide to discuss more details.

Most recruiting processes ends by the mark of three weeks, it should not take more than this for a developer role. Usually, there are three discussions, the HR one, the technical one, and sometimes one more with the client. After that, the offer appears.

In less than a month, you accomplished the great position of making an important decision, should I pursue this offer any further or not? You decide to talk to your boss about it and before you know it, a counter offer is right in front of you. Most of the time, the counter offer is equal to the offer you received from the other company, or it can be manifested by promising a leading role in the near future or even certain benefits you didn't even know you could have in the company.

Let me tell you in the paragraphs below, why pursuing a counter offer from your current employer might?not?be the best decision.?

The situation you happen to be in can be very stressful, if you consider accepting any of the offers, take your time and don't rush. In general, companies offer very little to no time in taking a decision like this, request more time if you need to, and think selfishly.

From my experience and other recruiters of my kind, we could identify a tendency in looking-for-work developers who accept a counter offer to reach out to us in the time of eight months to a year since we made them an offer. But don't trust me on this one, here is what LinkedIn says about it.

Why wouldn't you accept a counter offer from your current employer? Because the main reasons you were looking on the market to find some other solutions are probably going to still be there. Your team leader and managers will still be the same, so if you have a fuzzy relationship with them, it's gonna be there. Maybe the culture of the company is something you don't resonate with or the work-life balance (which is very important by the way) is hard to put up with, these situations are still gonna be there.?

If you've reached the point of thinking to make a change in your career, I'm sure that there is a good reason behind it. I'm here to remember you that is good to think about your career, surely a smart thing to do. At the end of the day, it is you to make a good decision.

This is the?main?reason behind it, but I want to tell you one more pretty important reason that is neglected most of the time.

The professional relationship you have with your team leader, colleagues and boss it's gonna change. They might look at you a little differently.?

Showing that you're unsatisfied at work, will be noted and written down by your managers, and when the company hits a rough patch, and the layoff subject comes into discussion guess in which direction they are gonna look. Especially now that you've got a bigger salary.

Let's say that you accept the counter offer because you've been promised a leading role. That role will keep you happy for a limited time in your professional life. A honeymoon period as we like to call it. When this phase will wear off, because it will, you're gonna feel again the reasons you wanted to make a change in the first place.?

If you've got a counter offer on the table, congrats, you have right in front of you one heck of a decision to make. Analyze it carefully and think about your well-being.

It's like an old relationship, think gracefully about it, but don't forget why it ended in the first place.?

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Cristi