So I rejected an offer that I had accepted and a few others that were offered ( not accepted yet ) because I got an offer the others won’t match up to and my experience has been very unpleasant. To some I spoke over the phone and to others I wrote emails and I don’t think I was condescending or rude about it. So many times recruiters don’t even bother to come back to the applicants with updates, or keep delaying saying the hiring manager hasn’t come back ( is sick, is out on a trip etc etc ) or back off for the promised numbers ( or benefits , sponsorship etc ) and if the applicant isn’t professional with them they go as far as blacklisting that person in their firm ( and possibly even others where they have contacts). And yet when an applicant is rejecting their offer, they are total d*cks about it w/o any consequences !!! Isn’t that an abuse of power ? How can I make offer-rejection upfront and yet not as unpleasant as it has been ?
Keep it simple and professional. There’s nothing wrong with saying you got a better offer somewhere else. There’s no such thing as company loyalty.
You have to disappoint someone by rejecting their offers in the process..so don’t have hard feelings..
Yeah but it’s so tiring and time consuming too
I will say, as a HM, nothing pisses me off more than someone who accepts an offer and subsequently changes their mind. We put you into our headcount and project plan based on your acceptance, and you very well may have prevented another candidate from an opportunity. I have never and would never accept an offer that I'm not committed to. I have a couple friends who do this and always give them shit for it. It's a bad look, so don't be surprised if the recruiter, HM, and even company as a whole treats you badly as a result.
Yeah that’s true but if the candidate is able to get offers with higher pay elsewhere, then it also shows that your company is not being able to compete and that in my opinion is very detrimental to a company’s bottom line. If you are paying top of the market tc and candidates back out of signed offers then I guess you have a case.
There are different schools of thought around TC, but my philosophy based on my experience is - don't pay top of market, because you will end up hiring people whose primary motivation is TC. These same people will jump ship once they get another bigger offer in a year or so (because new offers are always better than internal comp adjustments). It also has a negative effect on culture, if you care about that. So I wouldn't say that if you're not paying top of market, it's a bad look for the company. Just depends on what your org's values are.
I went through something similar with my latest job switch. I had two offers. You need to grow a thick skin and approach this with minimal emotions. You are trying to improve your life by getting the best offer possible. Keep your goal in mind. Everything else is fluff and fleeting.
I guess ...
Blow them off. That’s what they’d do to you if they were turning you down.
Did you accept then reject?
I accepted one then got a way better offer and so decided to go with the better one ... and first one isn’t even talking about matching it ... all they are doing is patronizing me
consider this - if the HM gets paid less than what your new offer is and they definitely can’t match that - it would make a lot of sense for them to get very unpleasant
It's your fault. In my opinion, rejecting an accepted offer is not professional. Try to avoid these type of situations in the future and learn from your mistakes. There is always a better offer somewhere, but you can't earn all the money in the world and the world is quite small, tbh.
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