Essay On Counter Offer

It can be a great feeling knowing that there are employers falling over each other trying to get their hands on you, but nice and all as may seem when you get an offer from another employer it’s not the signal for you to put yourself out for action.

As a rule a counter offer is not the plain sailing you may think. So if you take a typical situation where a counter offer becomes possible there are a few things hat need to come together first.

Being searched out, identified and being made an offer by another employer doesn’t usually happen unless you are well recognised as being at the top of your trade. Recognised as been very successful and being the reason behind your employer’s success. In other words, in the marketplace you’re known to be very good.

Hopefully this will prompt a counter offer.

In both examples above, in nearly all cases it’s the end of your employment with your current employer. Looking to get a counter offer, rarely works. Whether you hint at a counter offer or come straight out and ask for one, your employer will be annoyed at the fact that you have been out looking for a job (as they will be believed) while pretending to be working. They will regard it as deceitful.

More likely than not, a counter offer will not be made and if such an agreement is reached it will not last.

Bear in mind that the moment you mention an offer from elsewhere and you indicate your thinking about it the trust you had is over. All the magic of the job you liked is gone, your loyalty is suspect and you will not have the confidence of your managers. You will no longer be one who can be trusted. You will notice you are no longer invited into meetings as before, you will not be confided in and slowly your authority will erode. In time you will become decidedly uncomfortable in your current role and you will start the job search process