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Counteroffers benefit the employer not you

By Pat O'Donnell | May 15, 2008

The Way Forward sign in the sky

Fact: 70% of executives who accept a counteroffer are gone from that employer within 6 months.

Fact: 85% of executives who accept are gone within 18 months.


A counteroffer is an offer made by an employer in order to keep you on after you have given notice.
The most frequent counteroffers strategies include:

  1. a promise of a promotion and/or a raise (most frequent response)
  2. telling you are a traitor to the team or to your boss
  3. confiding to you that the company you are considering is not that well thought of Read the rest of this entry »
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Job Security in Recession and Getting Ahead In Any Market – Part II

By Pat O'Donnell | April 30, 2008

rollercoaster


Selling Yourself to Management

As I said in my last post, as a recruiter, I am not actually seeing any evidence of a Recession outside of the financial industry. However, many of the strategies that protect you in a bad market also improve your status with in a good market.

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