How to juggle multiple Job Offers

You receive a job offer from your second preference company when an interview is in the pipeline with your top company. What do you do now? This is a fix that many people find themselves in and don’t know which offers to hold up and which ones to let go off? It could be a neat little problem for you if you sing on an agreement that binds you against working for any other firm and after that you get a job offer from the company you have always dreamt of working with.

There are not many options for you if you are not the diplomatic kinds and also if you are badly in need of a job. What you then will have to do is to be happy with whichever job offer you have received first and give your best to the job.

The second option for you could be of taking the risk and writing a polite letter to the company to withdraw the job offer as you have changed your mind regarding it. This could be a risky undertaking as your professional reputation will be at risk. However, if you want to really work with your favorite concern, then go ahead and take the risk.

Options one and two are the extreme sides of the thing and probably you will always repent whatever decision you take if you go ahead with either of them. The sensible option otherwise is to buy some time. Like of the company which is your second choice has given you an offer with a deadline then try to get it extended with some negotiations, mind you it will be worth it.

Explain that as you have other interviews ahead of you, you don’t want to rush things and would like to have all the facts before you. Playing it right will give the company the solace that they are your first choice but you just want to reassure yourself and then plunge into it.

If you are refused on that account what you possibly can do is give yourself a day’s time and jot down the pros and cons of both the situations and then make your pick. If you want to take the risk of leaving this offer and are sure that you are going to clear the other interview then go ahead otherwise….

If you choose to do something like accepting the offer and withdrawing it then you could be seriously harming your professional reputation and you cant be sure when could encounter this company again.

So take a deep breath and then make your choice.