Many of my friends/colleagues have discussed with me in past about a new offer that they are getting and if they should take that or not. I used to share my views to best of my knowledge
Lately, I actually designed a satisfaction scale to make this choice analytically. Let me share my thoughts here
I think a job can be defined a 5 dimensions
1. Your Role
2. Your salary/money/ CTC :)
3. The organisation
4. Location of your work ( in your home city/ dream city)
5. Personal comfort/Work life balance/personal time
Somehow, I feel that any offer can be analysed in these 5 dimensions. Now to make things simple, we can give equal weights to these dimensions ( you can put different weights for different dimensions also) and let us define satisfaction scale from 1 to 3.
1 is for not OK
2 is for Good
3 is for very good
Again, you can have 5 point scale from Very bad to Very good.
Now, on those 5 dimensions, give a score and then total that score
let us assume you get 9 out of 15 score. So your satisfaction score is 60%.
So, evaluate your next offer on these and find out score. If there is at least 10% increase, go ahead and switch your job
How it helps:
Sometimes, we tend to switch a job only for money but that gives you lesser role growth or personal time. For first few days, you enjoy your money but then the overall satisfaction comes into play which is lower than previous job. Then you repent a lot !!
Example:
Let us assume you are in a job which is 2 in all parameters thus your total is 10. Now, you can get a job with amazing role and money taking those things to 3 each.
We tend to jump for these offers and you also took that. But somehow that took all your personal time and that actually falls so bad that it is zero.
Now, you would see your total score again to be 10.
So overall, you are as good or as bad as before. The difference is, you might enjoy your work a lot but you might get very disturbed from personal perspective.
So, use this scale to judge your overall score before jumping into anything..
Cheers
