Your consultants role
After the interview your consultant will take control of the feedback and offer process for you and undertake full salary negotiation on your behalf. Their aim is to get the right package for your skills as well as one that is attractive and will ensure you get the role you want.
They will talk you through the offer and gauge your response. They will ensure that once you have verbally accepted the offer that all the necessary paperwork is despatched to you as soon as possible. They will then talk you through every detail and clarify any areas you don’t understand.
Once you have signed the contracts and sent them back, you then need to resign from your current job. It is important that you anticipate the reaction that your manager might have to your pending departure. He/she may try to offer you incentives and promises of changes to be made in line with some of the reasons you give for your departure.
We have found that in many cases, the promises that are made in the heat of the moment about differences in the future rarely come to fruition.
References
Some companies require taking up references and so it might be prudent to anticipate this request and prepare 2 work and 1 personal referee. The information you will be asked to provide is their name, job title, address, telephone number and email address.
It is good practice to contact your referees to check that they are happy to provide a reference and prepare them for the contact by your new employer – if they know how important the job is to you, it might encourage them respond a little quicker!
Conditional offers
When an offer is conditional, it is usually because the company wants to see your references prior to confirming the offer.
Start date
Once you have resigned from your current job, you need to negotiate your departure date and then agree a start date that is mutually convenient to both your new employer and yourself.
Sometimes the employer may have a reason for starting you on a particular date - induction course, other joiners etc, and so it is always a good idea to work with your new employer to join them on their preferred date. After all, you don’t want to start off on the wrong foot!