The author of this articale is a recuiter. When a job is offered and it is accepted and employee join the company. Recuiter gets a fat cut immedialty before a person joining enjoys the benfits of his/her new job. If one reject the offer which has reached to final stage, it is recuiter who losses most so he is try to scare all of us from reject the offer. Beware from this guys.
When we expect the HR people to take atleast some blame of these disloyality/pay-package culture/not ckecking previous employers references/wooing rival companis empoyees.
And what abt HR jumpings and hoppings? ALL MODERN DAY HR PROBLEMS ARE DUE TO NEW HR DEPTS and previously unheard off with PERSONNEL DEPTs
RE:Even the fingers of our hand are not equal......
by red mercury on Jul 02, 2008 11:38 AM Permalink
but all the fingers runn in one blood group ... guess no fingers hv diff blood group!!
if u hv'nt understood the moral of the story ... its ur problem brother .. not the editor's!
If you take counter-offer your company is going to remember this issue. Now they are more alert & will look for substitute & you will be nowhere in 6-12 months time. The old company will not trust you nor a consultant. This will be a big problem if future. It is not a question of fees but question of self respect. If you resign, you resign.
RE:Ignore
by Loan Shark on Jul 02, 2008 03:12 AM Permalink
if money is what you are moving for, then definitely take the counter offer since it pays more ... otherwise, if you are moving for a better work environment, better growth or do not like your present company, it is better to move on.
I know a guy who worked for a small sized company which was headed for a disaster and this guy was a VP .... He got an offer from another small sized company but his current boss then talked him out of leaving .... by offering him a raise and a promise that things will get better. Anyway, the company continued to go south and went into bankruptcy some 6 months later.
It is situational ... there cannot be a standard answer.
if you dont make moves from one company to another, the recruiting brokers dont get their brokerage. so they want you unsettled all the time. Nothing wrong in taking a counter offer...just that one should be practically prepared to handle higher responsibilities. There is no blackmail involved here. This article that way looks like a well orchestrated ploy by the recruiting brokers /hookers
RE:This article - Recruiting companies' ploy
by Rajagopal Bhat on Jul 02, 2008 05:37 AM Permalink
Hey, would you take it if you were leaving your present position frustrasted or suffocated? How would a little promise convince you what your hard analysis preceding your decision to leave couldn't do?
RE:This article - Recruiting companies' ploy
by Data Spread on Jul 02, 2008 09:40 AM Permalink
If I am frustrasted or suffocated, I wouldnt wait for a new opportunity to roll by, I would simply resign (I have indeed done that). In most companies in India, an lower level employee is seen as an unexplainable threat to everyone above..if he is too intelligent for them to handle. Like Mr Naraya Murthy rightly said..and did with his own company, company owners aka directors must look for employees even better than themselves...bu how many company owners have this attitude? Most company owners in India are paranoiac when it comes to recruiting someone extremely talented.
RE:This article - Recruiting companies' ploy
by Loan Shark on Jul 02, 2008 03:17 AM Permalink
well said ... never trust the recruiters ... they will make tall claims about the company, management, repuation, length of assignment (if contracting) etc. ... so, it is better to ask and confirm all those things at the interview with the prospective employer. Employers are less likely to lie as they know that they will have to face the employee when he learns the truth .... the recruiter, however, will either pretend ignorance or say that he was just a messanger.
Its true,buy back is stupidity its better to decide before keeping the step out of office when u decide it not your cup of tea.Be Sincer,Honest and Polite.Change is for Good.
RE:good article.
by sandy sharma on Jul 02, 2008 08:30 AM Permalink
I agree, you will look out of the company when you are not anyways happy with the current job. So better don't get befooled by the same company again accepting the counter offer.
When you are ready to change a job it is because you are not happy with the company. When you apply in the market and get and then decide to go back on your words for a counter offer you are just creating a trap for yourself....
