Congrats! You're desired by not one, but two, maybe even THREE businesses! While this is exciting, it's also an incredible source of stress. Which one do you choose? How do I know? Why is life so hard?! Whatever, it's only my future.I was lucky enough to have this good problem to have in 2014. I started googling "choosing between two offers" and got a bunch of listicles with the top 4 or 5 things to choose between. It was always the same... Salary, Vacation Days, Environment, 401k, etc etc. And yes, all of those things are obviously very important, but there are so many other factors that go into how you'll choose to spend 40-50 hours every week.
So I did what any sane and rational, but yet highly over organized person would do. I created a Google spreadsheet with all of the categories I could think of that were important in decision making (it's 34 things by the way), the importance to which I personally rank those things on a scale from 1-5, and then the two (or three) companies in each column color coded as to which one "won" each category. Green is the winner, yellow means it's the same, red means it's a deal breaker.
Tally up all the green, yellow, and red numbers based on the importance column, and boom - there's your job choice. Surprisingly it isn't always salary that makes or breaks a job, assuming the differences aren't massive and none are insulting.
- Below is a snapshot of the doc if anyone wants to use it in their future career decision making.
- Click on the image to bring you to the document and feel free to steal the template.
- Enter in your own specifics, change as you see fit.
- If you have any questions or suggestions for categories, post in the comments below.
Good luck!
